Enterprise Architect - Advanced

RiVidium Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Architect who develops and maintains business, systems, and information processes to support enterprise mission needs; develops information technology (IT) rules and requirements that describe baseline and target architectures.

TASKS:

• Define appropriate levels of system availability based on critical system functions and ensure that system requirements identify appropriate disaster recovery and continuity of operations requirements to include any appropriate fail-over/alternate site requirements, backup requirements, and material supportability requirements for system recover/restoration.
• Employ secure configuration management processes.
• Ensure that acquired or developed system(s) and architecture(s) are consistent with organization's cybersecurity architecture guidelines.
• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
• Provide advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes.
• Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process activities and related documentation (e.g., system life-cycle support plans, concept of operations, operational procedures, and maintenance training materials).
• Analyze candidate architectures, allocate security services, and select security mechanisms.
• Develop a system security context, a preliminary system security Concept of Operations (CONOPS), and define baseline system security requirements in accordance with applicable cybersecurity requirements.
• Evaluate security architectures and designs to determine the adequacy of security design and architecture proposed or provided in response to requirements contained in acquisition documents.
• Write detailed functional specifications that document the architecture development process.
• Analyze user needs and requirements to plan architecture.
• Capture and integrate essential system capabilities or business functions required for partial or full system restoration after a catastrophic failure event.
• Develop enterprise architecture or system components required to meet user needs.
• Document and update as necessary all definition and architecture activities.
• Integrate results regarding the identification of gaps in security architecture.
• Plan implementation strategy to ensure that enterprise components can be integrated and aligned.
• Translate proposed capabilities into technical requirements.
• Document how the implementation of a new system or new interface between systems impacts the current and target environment including but not limited to security posture.
• Integrate key management functions related to cyberspace.

ABILITIES:

• Skill in applying and incorporating information technologies into proposed solutions.
• Skill in designing the integration of hardware and software solutions.
• Skill in determining how a security system should work (including its resilience and dependability capabilities) and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect these outcomes.
• Skill in design modeling and building use cases (e.g., unified modeling language).
• Skill in writing code in a currently supported programming language (e.g., Java, C++).
• Skill in the use of design methods.
• Skill to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
• Skill to identify cybersecurity and privacy issues that stem from connections with internal and external customers and partner organizations.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited college or university
• • Prefer an accredited Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering degree, or a degree in a Mathematics or Engineering field.
• Certification(s) (hold at least one of the following): IAT Level III - CASP, CISA or CISSP
• Top Secret SCI Clearance

The annual salary range for this position is $180,000–$190,000.

The listed salary range represents a general guideline; however, RiVidium Inc. considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate’s experience, education, skills, and current market conditions. At RiVidium Inc. it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.