Solutions Architect

About the Role

Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer to provide onsite incident response to civilian Government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks. Contract personnel perform investigations to characterize the severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end mapping of new technology identification, requirements development, and workflows across all CISA Threat Hunt.
• Identify and document inputs, outputs, and dependencies for each phase of new technology insertion.
• Develop visual diagrams (process flows, swimlanes, dependency maps) to illustrate how proposed changes impact each section/branch.
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to validate workflows and uncover cross-functional impacts.
• Deliver actionable visuals and documentation to support strategic planning, compliance, and operational readiness.
• Document current and define future-state workflows and processes.
• Identify inputs, outputs, and key activities for each phase.
• Map dependencies between initiatives, systems, and teams.
• Develop end-to-end workflow diagrams.
• Create swimlane diagrams to show roles and handoffs.
• Validate diagrams and maps with stakeholders.
• Analyze impact on each subdivision/branch.
• Identify gaps and recommend process/system changes.
• Deliver final visuals and documentation to leadership.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Ability to obtain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry on Duty (EOD) Suitability.
• 10+ years of direct relevant experience in systems engineering and architecture development.
• Knowledge in various IT fields that include but are not limited to systems and networking engineering, technical analytics, threat hunt incident response/hunt deployment tools, cloud technologies, and databases.
• Experience with and technical understanding of cybersecurity attack-mitigation techniques and cybersecurity architectures.
• Experience with Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) processes and practices, Change Management practices, requirements management, traceability, and associated tools.
• Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines.
• Must be able to work collaboratively across agencies and physical locations.
• Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar lean Agile framework.
• Agile Systems Engineering and/or development experience.
• DevSecOps or DevOps experience.

Qualifications

• BS in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, or related degree; Master's degree preferred.

Desired Skills

• Experience and/or familiarity with architectural views including operational, technical standards, and system/services views and business, data, applications, and technology architectures using applicable standards (e.g., DODAF, FEAF).
• Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies (e.g., ISO, CMMI, ITIL, Agile, SAFe).
• Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS preferred).
• Experience and/or familiarity with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53).
• DHS experience.

Desired Certifications

• DoD 8140 IAT Level III.
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP).
• SAFe certification (SA, SP, SSM/SASM, RTE, POPM, SPD, ASE, or SPC).

Syndeo: ESS-3423