Join Our Team as an Enterprise Architect SME at Farfield Systems!
At Farfield Systems, we have dedicated over 23 years to empowering the government contracting community. We take pride in our commitment to impactful work that supports our customers' most vital missions. Our culture is built around our team members; they are our greatest asset and the reason our customers consistently express their satisfaction. We believe in the principle of “employee driven…customer focused,” which is at the heart of all we do.
We are currently seeking an experienced
Enterprise Architect Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join our team in supporting a U.S. Government customer. This important role involves providing onsite incident response for civilian government agencies and critical asset owners facing cyber-attacks. You will be at the forefront of immediate investigations and resolutions, ensuring the integrity and security of essential services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct thorough investigations to assess the severity of cyber breaches.
- Develop comprehensive mitigation plans to address vulnerabilities and threats.
- Collaborate with teams to assist in the swift restoration of services following incidents.
Why Farfield Systems?
We value our employees and continuously strive to create an environment that fosters growth, innovation, and satisfaction. By joining us, you will be part of a dedicated team that plays a crucial role in safeguarding our nation’s assets while making a genuine difference in the community.
If you are passionate about cybersecurity and want to contribute to missions that matter, we invite you to apply for the Enterprise Architect SME position and help us continue to deliver exceptional service to our customers!
Become part of a team where your expertise drives success and customer satisfaction.
Requirements:
Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end mapping of new technology identification, requirements development, and workflows across all CISA Threat Hunt
- Identify and document inputs, outputs, and dependencies for each phase of new technology insertion.
- Developing visual diagrams (process flows, swimlanes, dependency maps) to illustrate how proposed changes impacts each section/branch
- Facilitating workshops with stakeholders to validate workflows and uncover cross-functional impacts
- Delivering actionable visuals and documentation to support strategic planning, compliance, and operational readiness
- Documenting current and define future-State Workflows and Processes
- Identifying inputs, outputs, and key activities for each phase
- Mapping dependencies between initiatives, systems, and teams
- Develop end-to-end workflow diagrams
- Creating swimlane diagrams to show roles and handoffs
- Validating diagrams and maps with stakeholders
- Analyzing impact on each subdivision/branch
- Identifying gaps and recommending process/system changes
- Delivering final visuals and documentation to leadership
Required Skills/Clearances:
- U.S. Citizenship
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Ability to obtain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry on Duty (EOD) Suitability
- 12+ years of direct relevant experience in systems engineering and architecture development
- Knowledge in various IT fields that include but are not limited to systems and networking engineering, technical analytics, threat hunt incident response/ hunt deployment tools, cloud technologies, and databases.
- Experience with and technical understanding of cybersecurity attack-mitigation techniques and cybersecurity architectures
- Experience with Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) processes and practices, Change Management practices, requirements management, traceability, and associated tools
- Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines
- Must be able to work collaboratively across agencies and physical locations.
- Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar lean Agile framework
- Agile Systems Engineering and/or development experience
- DevSecOps or DevOps experience
Desired Skills:
- Experience and/or familiarity with architectural views including operational, technical standards, and system/services views and business, data, applications, and technology architectures using applicable standards (e.g., DODAF, FEAF)
- Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g ISO, CMMI, ITIL, Agile, SAFe)
- Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS preferred)
- Experience and/or familiarity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53)
- DHS experience.
Required Education:
BS Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, or related degree.
Desired Certifications:
- DoD 8140 IAT Level III
- Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP)
- SAFe certification (SA, SP, SSM/SASM, RTE, POPM, SPD, ASE, or SPC)
Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
