IT Principal Enterprise Architect

Description & Requirements

The Federal Enterprise Architect specializes in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure cloud environments that meet the stringent requirements of FedRAMP Moderate and High, CMMC, and DoD Impact Levels 4/5.

This role ensures that the agency's cloud-based systems and applications adhere to federal mandates, industry best practices, and evolving threat landscapes.

The Federal Security Architect works collaboratively with the CDIO, CISO, Technology & Innovation, IT leadership, and various stakeholders to develop and maintain a robust security architecture framework that effectively safeguards sensitive government data and critical infrastructure.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure all the resources and support for hardware and hardware modernization, and the addition of new capabilities to meet the government requirements, and to leverage technological advances, improve system capability, reliability, and extend system life.
- Manage a small team of system and application engineers.
- Provide a variety of technical support analysis and integration required.
- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to both business and technical teams on the overall solution architecture.
- Perform Gap Analysis of current and targeted system operating environments.
- Provide a technology roadmap for maintaining and improving services provided to the external customers.
- Provide forward leading solution enhancements to the business that support both cost and quality competitiveness.
- Work effectively and efficiently with other departments and senior leadership (e.g.

Capture Management Team, IT Infrastructure, Information Security, and Application Development) to ensure all needs are included in the overall architecture.
- Assist in proposal writing and business development as required, such as understanding overall federal business needs, product/service strategic direction, MAXIMUS operations, federal policy requirements and business development strategy.

• Security Architecture Design:

o Develop and maintain the cloud security architecture blueprint, ensuring full compliance with CMMC, FedRAMP moderate and high, DoD SRG, NIST800-53r5, NIST800-171, and other applicable federal regulations.

o Evaluate and integrate emerging security technologies and solutions to address the unique challenges of cloud environments and evolving threats.

o Design and implement security controls tailored to FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, and DoD IL4/5 requirements to protect sensitive and classified information.

o Define security standards and guidelines for cloud service selection, implementation, configuration, and ongoing management.

• Security Strategy Implementation:

o Work closely with the CISO and IT leadership to implement the cloud security strategy, ensuring alignment with agency mission objectives and CMMC, FedRAMP and DoD IL4/5 compliance.

o Collaborate with project teams to integrate security requireme...