811775 Systems Engineer $245,000.00

Labor Category: Systems Engineer
Position Title: Systems Architect
Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert
Salary: Up to $245,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Chantilly VA

Description:

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

Seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to join a technical development program supporting the Customer’s Entitlement Programs, Identity and Access Management (IdAM/ICAM), Authentication, Authorization, Attributes, and Digital Policy Management. This role reports directly to the Portfolio Architect of the division, and serves as the primary architectural authority at the project team level.

The Solutions Architect will provide day-to-day architectural direction to the development lead and broader engineering team, translating high-level portfolio guidance and new business requirements from customers into actionable system designs, detailed technical specifications, and implementation-ready architecture decisions. This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise paired with strong communication and documentation skills. The ideal candidate possesses hands-on software development and cloud management experience as this role involves performing code reviews and building limited functionality.

Responsibilities:
• Provide direct architectural guidance and decision support to the development lead on a day-to-day basis, ensuring engineering efforts align with program and portfolio-level direction
Author and maintain detailed system designs and technical specifications prior to implementation
• Develop mature, implementation-ready designs that bridge the gap between high-level concepts and engineering execution
• Represent the team at architecture and design review meetings, communicating technical positions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Communicate architectural decisions and risks upward to the Portfolio Architect, who is responsible for cross-team architectural alignment and sharing
• Partner with DevOps teams to support infrastructure-as-code practices, CI/CD pipeline design, and automation strategy
• Provide architectural oversight for the program’s evolution toward containerized workloads and modern deployment patterns
• Design solutions that accommodate the handling of sensitive and classified data, including double-encryption requirements and data compartmentalization strategies
• Apply knowledge of accreditation and assessment and authorization (A&A) processes to ensure systems meet applicable security requirements throughout the development lifecycle
• Apply deep understanding of authorization models, attribute-based access control, and digital policy management
• Support development of capability roadmaps, use case definitions, and interface specifications
• Maintain architecture documentation repositories and ensure designs remain current through the program lifecycle
• Provide Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) guidance that includes governance issues as well as software deployments.
• Recommend software products and other solutions to the customer.

Details:

Labor Category: Systems Engineer
Position Title: Systems Architect
Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert
Salary: Up to $245,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Chantilly VA

Mandatory Requirements:

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)

MS degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline, plus 15+ years of relevant experience; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of advanced degree
• Demonstrated experience designing software architectures for mission-critical, security-sensitive applications in classified or sensitive environments
• Hands-on experience supporting software development teams in an architectural or technical lead capacity
• Proficiency with API-driven architecture and integration patterns; experience designing and evaluating RESTful and service-based interfaces
• Solid understanding of network engineering concepts as they relate to software and system design
• Experience with enterprise IdAM/ICAM solutions including LDAP directories, Security Token Services (STS), attribute providers, and policy enforcement points
• Knowledge of A&A processes and the ability to design systems that support accreditation requirements
• Working knowledge of sensitive data handling requirements including encryption strategies and data classification controls
• Familiarity with DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and containerization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear technical documentation and present effectively to senior stakeholders

Optional Requirements:

• Experience with business process management (BPM) frameworks and tooling
• Familiarity with identity and access management solutions in classified environments
• Direct experience working with mission datasets in IC or DoD contexts
• AWS experience and/or AWS certification
• Experience contributing to or reviewing system security plans, security architecture documentation, or RMF artifacts
• Prior experience working in a portfolio or enterprise architecture function
• Understanding of current cybersecurity technologies and emerging capabilities

B4CORP Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations.  B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs.  B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package.  B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first.  B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation:

• Outstanding Salaries

Retirement:

• Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options
  –       100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary
  –       Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

Insurance:

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
• Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)

Employee Referral Bonus:

• Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP

Paid Time Off (PTO):

• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

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