Security Architecture Lead
Northrop Grumman9 days ago
Remote, United States or New York, NY, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$161k - $241k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Security Architecture Lead for the enterprise architecture function.
- Define and maintain enterprise security architecture principles, trusted patterns, reference architectures, standards, and guardrails.
- Guide architecture decisions involving identity and access, trust boundaries, segmentation, secure integration, data protection, and security controls.
- Ensure target-state architecture, modernization plans, and major design decisions incorporate security and risk requirements early.
- Partner with business, application, data, technology, cyber, infrastructure, and delivery stakeholders on architectural trade-offs.
- Identify architectural debt, duplication, policy conflicts, control gaps, and modernization risks.
- Participate in architecture reviews, standards governance, and decision forums.
- Develop recommendations that improve security posture while enabling practical delivery and modernization.
- Mentor architects and technical leaders on embedding security into architecture decisions.
- Support executive-facing communication about security architecture risks, standards, and modernization implications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline with 12+ years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 10+ years, or a PhD with 8+ years.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance as a condition of continued employment.
- Demonstrated experience in security architecture, cyber architecture, enterprise security engineering, or risk-informed architecture leadership.
- Experience defining security standards, trusted patterns, architecture guardrails, or reference architectures across complex technical environments.
- Strong understanding of secure system design, enterprise risk, architectural trade-offs, and security requirements affecting applications, platforms, integrations, and data flows.
- Experience influencing security-related architecture decisions across multiple teams, organizations, or technical domains.
- Strong knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture and the Defense Compliance Landscape.
- Knowledge of the Security Architecture Method or equivalent, plus experience with threat modeling and risk translation.
- Preferred experience leading enterprise security architecture, cyber architecture, or security design governance in a large organization.
- Preferred experience in defense, aerospace, federal, or other regulated environments and with identity, boundary protection, integration security, data protection, or zero trust-aligned design.
- Preferred experience supporting architecture review boards, standards governance, or modernization planning.
- Knowledge of TOGAF or another architecture framework.
- Ability to balance security discipline with delivery, interoperability, and operational constraints and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Virtual telecommuter arrangement is available, but the employee must live within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location for ad hoc onsite meetings.
- Travel is approximately 10% of the time.
- Flexible work arrangements, learning opportunities, exposure to varied projects and customers, and a friendly team environment.
- Exceptional healthcare and other benefits, including health insurance, life and disability insurance, paid holidays, and paid time off.
- 9/80 work schedule option and a 401(k) matching program.
- U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring a government clearance.
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About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman designs and manufactures aircraft, spacecraft, missile defense, C4ISR, and cyber systems for the U.S. government, NASA, and allied nations. The company operates primarily through long-term defense and space contracts, delivering products and services spanning autonomous systems, sensors, software, and sustainment. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: NOC).