IT Systems Solutions Architect-Senior

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Digital Consultants seeks a Senior IT Systems Solutions Architect / Contract Manager to lead cybersecurity engineering and Department of Defense Risk Management Framework (RMF) support for the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The position serves as the designated key person and daily contract manager while directing RMF lifecycle execution, system architecture and configuration reviews, security-control assessment, Authority to Operate (ATO) sustainment, and coordination with Government stakeholders across classified and unclassified ATC environments.

Duties to include:

• Serve as the designated key person and Contract Manager; coordinate daily performance, Government communications, technical priorities, and an authorized alternate.
• Prepare and deliver the monthly Funding Balance Statement, Invoice, Invoice Reconciliation Report, and Spend Plan (CDRLs A001–A004), and maintain the Quality Control Program.
• Lead RMF planning and lifecycle reporting for ATC information systems, including ATO development, maintenance, and continuous monitoring.
• Provide system-wide architectural guidance for software baseline requirements, modernization, emerging technology, and migration of existing capabilities.
• Analyze proposed changes to hardware and software security baselines for performance, interoperability, and cybersecurity impacts.
• Support configuration management reviews, change control boards, defect tracking, and validation of incident findings.
• Support RMF system categorization, boundary identification, security-control selection, implementation, and assessment.
• Prepare and maintain RMF artifacts, security control evidence, POA&Ms, and authorization documentation.
• Conduct vulnerability-management, security audit, DISA STIG compliance, and continuous monitoring activities.
• Coordinate security-control assessment, verification and validation, and ATO sustainment activities.
• Support assigned ATC LAN, LIN, STE, and T&EN environments and document results for Government stakeholders.