Principal Zero Trust Architect (R-00204)
Summary
Designs and leads Zero Trust architectures for government systems, defining patterns, policies, and integrations while advising teams on compliance and security best practices.
True Zero is seeking a Principal Zero Trust Architect to serve as the senior technical authority for enterprise Zero Trust architecture and engineering support. The role translates VA Zero Trust strategy into reusable conceptual, logical, and implementation architectures that can be applied across diverse FISMA-reportable systems.
The Principal Zero Trust Architect leads development of Government-prioritized ZTA Use Cases, establishes reusable pattern families, guides tool capability analyses, and provides architecture review and engineering consultation to keep system implementations aligned with enterprise standards and Federal cybersecurity guidance.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead development and technical quality review of enterprise ZTA Use Cases and reusable architecture patterns.
- Define information flows, policy decision and enforcement points, identity relationships, workload interactions, security controls, and integration requirements.
- Evaluate interoperability and architectural alignment of existing enterprise security technologies using vendor-neutral analysis.
- Provide technical advisory support to Architecture Review Boards, engineering teams, and executive governance bodies.
- Guide system teams in applying enterprise patterns to on-premises, cloud, hybrid, legacy, and mission-critical environments.
- Incorporate implementation lessons learned and architectural deviations back into reusable enterprise patterns and technical guidance.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
- Ten or more years of security architecture or enterprise engineering experience, including significant Zero Trust architecture responsibility.
- Expert knowledge of NIST SP 800-207, CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model, and Federal Zero Trust architecture principles.
- Demonstrated ability to design reusable enterprise architectures across identity, devices, networks, applications, data, visibility, and automation.
- Strong technical writing, architecture review, and executive communication skills.
- Experience supporting large Federal enterprises and FISMA-reportable systems.
- Experience with cloud and hybrid architectures, identity-centric security, microsegmentation, application modernization, and telemetry integration.
- Experience conducting vendor-neutral capability and interoperability assessments.
One or more of the following:
- CISSP
- CISSP-ISSAP
- SABSA
- CCSP
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