Overview

Illuminate is seeking a Solutions Architect with an active SECRET clearance to support a federal customer. This program supports our federal customer who plays a key role in providing direct cybersecurity engineering support. This program provides systems and security engineering and integration support to specific Government-sponsored projects, pilots and prototypes. This includes solution planning and engineering, defining security requirements, target architecture, interoperability and integration, system testing, Verification and Validation, Modeling and Simulation, studies and analysis, post-deployment security validation (PDSV), and project risk management. As part of this team, you will contribute to the architecture and engineering of current and emerging cybersecurity systems, policies, and processes to enforce standards and identify vulnerabilities and capability gaps and reduce cybersecurity risk of our customer networks.

Illuminate supports the US national security community and its allies with a wide range of analytic and cyber effect solutions that accelerate informed decision made in the telephony, IP messaging, cyber, and multi-source arenas. Our customers require insight from the endless volume and variety of data to make critical, high integrity decisions at mission speed. We are an innovative solutions company striving to be a global leader in multi-source data collection, predictive analysis and mobile/network surveillance (4G/5G) and assurance, from the Edge of Collection to the Core of Exploitation, Tactical to Strategic, Endpoint to the Enterprise.

Responsibilities

The Solutions Architect considers all aspects of a changing marketplace, evolving technological trends, and changing business needs due to strategy and/or changes in legislation. The Architecture is an ever-evolving architecture since the nature of cyber threats are changing. This is especially important for our customer as the threat landscape changes with newer technologies and newer ways of conducting business.

• Coordinate the architecture work with the Government and shall maintain and enhance architecture plans and procedures for Government-sponsored programs.
• Lead the development of enterprise and project architectre artifacts
• Lead support for the program's architecture database

**This position is eligible for maximum telework (>50%) for applicants residing in the National Capital Region (DC, MD, VA).**

**This position’s office location can be either Sterling, VA, or Rockville, MD.**

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience with performing systems engineering/architecture for large systems-of-system
• Experience in design and development of system architecture to include interface models, system behavior models (including use case and sequence diagrams), network diagrams, data flow models, and traceability of requirements and standards to enterprise architecture models.
• Hands on experience in developing architecture artifacts following an architecture framework (i.e. DoDAF, TOGAF, FEAF)
• Hands on experience with architecture tools such as UNICOM System Architect, NoMagic Cameo Enterprise Architecture/MagicDraw/Cameo Systems Modeler, or other equivalent enterprise architecture tools
• Experience in systems engineering requirements and concept development, systems hardware and software design and development, and system integration.
• Experience working with multiple teams and ability to interface with technical and non-technical stakeholders at various levels within and outside of the organization to bring together the solution.
• Must be able to obtain DHS EOD

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in developing UML and SysML models to support architecture, design, and development for large-scale program
• Experience with Model Based System Engineering (MBSE).
• Experience using MBSE tools and methodology to develop architecture and integrating requirements, standards, and security controls to generate system-engineering products.
• Experience with transitioning requirements and specifications from DOORS into a model-based environment
• Experience with transitioning architecture and design data from Unicom System Architect into a model-based environment

Equal employment opportunity employer:

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Illuminate is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, as a condition of employment, Illuminate requires all employees to be fully vaccinated. An employee is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the second dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine or one week after receiving a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. All newly hired employees will be required to provide proof of vaccination on their first day of employment.