About You
You are a person who is passionate about leading security architecture planning and design recommendations for regulated SaaS, cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and future multi-cloud environments, including Azure Government and other federal or high-compliance environments. We need someone who has experience translating FedRAMP Moderate/High, NIST, FIPS, HIPAA, FISMA, CMMC, and other applicable security requirements into technical designs, implementation guidance, standards, and audit-ready evidence, with depth in identity, authentication and authorization, password less access, PIV/CAC, federal integrations, encryption, segmentation, logging, DevSecOps, and continuous monitoring).
In the role of ICS Security Architect, you will be responsible for supporting regulated cloud, SaaS, federal enclave, and high-compliance architecture priorities. Secondary support may include corporate and enterprise security architecture initiatives as business priorities require, consistent with the position's responsibility to advance Signature's security posture across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and SaaS environments.
- Tell us about your experience with Information, Security & Architecture.
- Are you a team player and a self-motivator?
- We are counting on you to manage multiple projects using your problem-solving skills.
- We are looking for someone UNCOMMON. What is uncommon about you?
Are you highly committed? Are you team-oriented? Do you value professionalism, trust, honesty, and integrity? If so, we cannot wait to meet you.
About The Position
- Lead security architecture planning, design recommendations, and implementation guidance for regulated SaaS solutions, federal cloud environments, high-compliance enclaves, and hybrid/on-premises deployments.
- Define authorization boundaries, trust zones, data flows, interconnections, and inheritance.
- Translate FedRAMP Moderate/High, NIST, CMMC, HIPAA, FISMA, FIPS, and other applicable security requirements into secure designs, standards, implementation guidance, and evidence.
- Design IAM, least privilege, passwordless, PIV/CAC, privileged/service access, and federal integrations.
- Define and recommend FIPS-aligned cryptography, PKI, key/secret management, TLS/mTLS, and encryption patterns.
- Establish secure Azure, Azure Government, on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud patterns.
- Design reusable security architecture patterns that can be adapted across customer-managed, company-managed, SaaS, cloud-hosted, on-premises, and hybrid deployment models.
- Evaluate deployment models, shared-responsibility boundaries, authorization boundaries, inherited controls, customer-managed responsibilities, and interconnection risks to ensure security requirements are clearly defined and supportable.
- Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, risk assessments, and development of security architecture artifacts.
- Embed SAST/SCA/DAST, SBOM, secrets, IaC, container, and release gates into DevSecOps.
- Define logging, SIEM, audit, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and POA&M requirements in coordination with responsible operational teams.
- Develop SSPs, control narratives, diagrams, interconnections, standards, and evidence.
- Support SaaS, federal, corporate, and enterprise security architecture initiatives as business priorities require, with primary focus on regulated technology environments and high-compliance architecture needs.
- Assess vendor, contractor, supply-chain, and shared-responsibility risk; recommend action.
Minimum Requirements:
- Must be able to meet applicable federal background, credentialing, and access requirements, including NACLC or successor federal suitability/clearance requirements when applicable.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience.
- CISSP, CCSP, CISM, or comparable advanced certification strongly preferred.
- Eight (8)+ years of progressive experience in information security, security architecture, application security, cloud security, or related regulated-technology environments.
- Deep expertise: FedRAMP Moderate/High; NIST 800-53/171; CMMC; FIPS; HIPAA; FISMA.
- Azure/Azure Government, on-premises, and hybrid experience; multi-cloud preferred.
- Expert IAM: OIDC/SAML, MFA/passwordless, PIV/CAC, PKI, RBAC/ABAC, and PAM.
- Experience with VA or other federal-customer integrations.
- Architecture artifacts: boundaries, data flows, threat models, interconnections, and ADRs.
- Experience with SSPs, POA&Ms, ConMon, 3PAO/audit, assessments, and evidence.
- Experience supporting security architecture for SaaS offerings operating in regulated or federally authorized environments, including shared-responsibility models, inherited controls, customer responsibility matrices, system interconnections, evidence support, and continuous monitoring obligations.
- Experience designing security patterns for configurable workflow, case management, or business process automation platforms that may be deployed across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, or customer-managed environments.
- SIEM, vulnerability management, DevSecOps, API security, Zero Trust, segmentation, and keys.
- Proficient understanding of computer and network systems, security protocols, vulnerability assessment tools, security software, and secure system design.
- Skilled in technical writing, including IT security policies, procedures, standards, reports, control narratives, and architectural drawings.
- Strong decision leadership, risk communication, vendor management, and prioritization.
About Us
You are uncommon. We are, too. We are looking for people to help us in our mission of working hard at lowering healthcare administrative costs for federal government agencies, payers, and providers. At Signature, our mission is to improve the health of our clients' business and make the lives of the people we work with better. As we continue to experience exponential growth, we are looking for uncommon individuals to enhance our vision. We will continue to accomplish our mission by leading with our values of Passion, Courage, Integrity, and Respect in all interactions, making us a consistent annual Best Places to Work organization. We need uncommon leaders with uncommon qualities to shape our uncommon culture and achieve our uncommon mission.
About the Benefits
When you are a member of Signature Performance, you are a part of a solutions-based organization where the values of passion, integrity, courage, and respect are the driving forces behind all our decision-making. We trust you to do important work and bring the best version of yourself to work every day, so we want to help you achieve a work-life balance while consistently challenging yourself. Signature believes in fully developing each one of our Associates. Our performance-driven philosophy boasts competitive pay and additional position specific incentives, where world-class training and development, resources, and events drive our award-winning culture where everyone thrives.
- Health Insurance
- Fully Paid Life Insurance
- Fully Paid Short- & Long-Term Disability
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Holidays
- Professional Development and Tuition Assistance Program
- 401(k) Program with Employer Match