Lead Cyber Architect 5

Job Description

HII Mission Technologies seeks a cybersecurity engineering professional supporting AFLCMC Fighters/Bombers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, through the DTIC Information Analysis Center Multiple Award Contract (IAC MAC). The position delivers technical analysis, engineering products, and acquisition support across weapon-system modernization and sustainment. Additional objectives are to integrate System Security Engineering (SSE), Risk Management Framework (RMF), Assessment and Authorization (A&A), and Department of the Air Force acquisition requirements across aircraft, avionics, weapon systems, embedded Operational Technology (OT), and connected mission technologies.  

This individual will serve as the principal subject matter expert and technical authority for cybersecurity architecture and strategy across assigned efforts. Resolve the highest-risk, most ambiguous issues and shape long-term engineering approaches. Influence senior customer decisions through credible analysis, while government officials retain authorization and risk-acceptance authority. 

Work a hybrid schedule with at least three days on-site per week. 

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Essential Job Responsibilities

• Shape cybersecurity requirements, evaluate aircraft and subsystem architectures, and develop practical mitigations that support mission capability and resilient system integration. 
• Work with government program managers, engineers, manufacturers, and test organizations to translate security findings into engineering changes and acquisition decisions. Deliver technical analyses and evidence supporting design reviews, authorization, modernization, fielding, and sustainment.
• Deliver technical analyses and evidence supporting design reviews, authorization, modernization, fielding, and sustainment. 
• Work a hybrid schedule with at least three days on-site per week.
• Define integrated SSE and cybersecurity architecture strategies across weapon-system portfolios; align security objectives, engineering investment, modernization priorities, and acquisition outcomes.

• Establish technical approaches for complex RMF/A&A challenges, including boundaries, categorization, control tailoring, inheritance, evidence sufficiency, and authorization dependencies.
• Provide authoritative technical review of SSPs, SCTMs, architecture analyses, assessment and risk reports, POA&Ms, and monitoring strategies supporting IATT and ATO.
• Resolve highest-consequence architecture, vulnerability, interface, and subsystem dependency issues; develop resilient options addressing mission, safety, airworthiness, and sustainment constraints.
• Shape threat-informed security requirements, program protection integration, and cybersecurity test strategies; assess residual risk and evidence limitations across lifecycle decisions.
• Advise senior military and civilian leaders on architecture tradeoffs, systemic risks, investment priorities, and decision alternatives with explicit mission, cost, and schedule implications.
• Lead resolution of cross-program technical disagreements with government customers, manufacturers, integrators, and test organizations; establish a defensible basis for recommendations.
• Develop senior engineers and technical leads, establish reusable engineering practices, and improve analytical rigor and product quality across the team and customer organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• 15 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 13 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 10 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 19 years relevant experience.
• Relevant degree fields: cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, engineering, or related disciplines. Meet applicable DoD 8140 work-role qualification requirements.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance required; ability to work a hybrid schedule with at least three days on-site per week.
• At least one certification: CISSP, CISM, CCISO, GSLC, or CompTIA SecurityX.
• Demonstrated principal-level expertise in SSE, RMF/A&A, weapon-system architecture, enterprise risk strategy, complex technical dispute resolution, and advising senior government decision makers. 
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 controls, avionics or comparable embedded mission systems, networking, segmentation, encryption, authentication, interfaces, security testing, and cybersecurity risk management.
• Relevant degree fields: cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, engineering, or related disciplines. Meet applicable DoD 8140 work-role qualification requirements.  
• Strong analytical judgment, accountability, and written and verbal communication.

Preferred Requirements

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Aircraft or weapon-system acquisition experience; familiarity with program protection and multidisciplinary engineering reviews; familiarity with eMASS or comparable authorization tools.
• CCNA, CCNP, AWS specialty or advanced certification, or Microsoft Azure professional certification.