Overview

BOOST LLC is a dynamic management consulting firm that offers an array of government-compliant back-office solutions to support our teaming partners within the GovCon space. Our consultants are experts in the areas of Accounting, Contracts, Human Resources, Recruiting & Sourcing, and Strategic Pricing and our passion is to guide and propel our partners towards success within this competitive sector.

BOOST is helping one of their teaming parties hire a proven Security Architect to join their team. Our client is a dynamic and innovative management and information technology consultancy with a relentless commitment to delivering value and driving the entrepreneurial spirit.

You will be responsible for supporting a federal agency by developing, maintaining, enhancing, and validating its security architecture as part of an enterprise architecture program. This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring 1-2 days on site in McLean, VA or Washington, DC.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Lead Enterprise Architect to assess, plan, and update the agency’s security architecture
• Understand security risks to the enterprise architecture strategy and work out effective mitigation strategies
• Work with agency program offices and stakeholders to identify and proactively engage on security planning, strategy, and implementation
• Identify information technology inadequacies and/or deficiencies that affect the functional area’s ability to support/meet organizational goals and security objectives
• Experience with technology projects, preferably enterprise architecture
• Ensure alignment with the White House Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
• Implement SABSA Framework architectural layers to support critical security initiatives
• Work with the Enterprise Architect and associated team members to identify and promote secure design, coding and configuration best practices to enhance the security posture of FSA systems
• Support agency and system cyber defense planning practices and proactively report on updates or changes to stakeholders, clients, and leadership
• Provide recommendations for security controls for network infrastructure, and application development teams
• Document exemptions to security policies and justifications of why the exemptions were applied
• Ability to complete individual tasks effectively, work in a team environment, and be proactive with little guidance
• Experience implementing tools and frameworks to support clients’ future-state security initiatives
• Ability to think critically and analyze a wide variety of complex problems
• Proactive and willing to engage in a high degree of verbal and written communication to support the program manager and team in its delivery to the client

Qualifications

Education/Experience Requirements 

• A strong working knowledge of Federal enterprise architecture policies and practices, federal cybersecurity policies and practices; knowledge of current cyber security controls; and system development life cycles
• Bachelor's degree
• 5 years of professional experience

Personal Requirements 

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team setting
• Proactive and self-motivated

Work Authorization Requirements 

• Ability to work on-site in McLean, VA and Washington, DC
• Ability to secure a Public Trust clearance or higher

Preferred Qualifications

• SABSA certification

• Experience with security architecture for a federal agency

• Experience supporting a chief information officer organization

• CISSP certification

• Experience with Alfabet

BOOST is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status