Position: Systems Architect 3 - Contingent
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 176602
Pay range: 60-65$/hr on w2
Job Overview: In this contingent resource assignment, the Systems Architect 3 will consult on or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within Systems Architecture. The role involves contributing to large-scale planning, analyzing challenges, and resolving issues while ensuring compliance with policies and procedures. The candidate will collaborate with client personnel to meet deliverables and leverage a solid understanding of systems architecture.
Responsibilities: - Consult on or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within Systems Architecture.
- Review and analyze challenges requiring in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
- Contribute to resolving issues and consult with others to meet deliverables.
- Collaborate with client personnel to ensure successful outcomes.
- Perform deep architecture-informed threat modeling for enterprise applications, services, and platforms.
- Decompose complex enterprise systems into components, data flows, and trust boundaries for formal threat modeling.
- Model application and platform architectures using enterprise-standard threat modeling tools.
- Identify, assess, and prioritize threats using tooling-generated threat libraries and human risk judgment.
- Evaluate the plausibility and impact of threats and recommend pragmatic, risk-informed mitigations.
- Document and present threat modeling results to engineering leadership and audit stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Cybersecurity Architecture and platform teams to define or evolve mitigating control patterns.
- Manage multiple threat models concurrently while maintaining quality and delivery timelines.
Qualifications: - 4 years of Systems Architecture experience or equivalent demonstrated through work, consulting experience, training, military experience, or education.
- 6 years of experience building, designing, or operating enterprise systems, including application development, platform engineering, or systems architecture.
- Experience decomposing complex systems and reasoning about their behavior under normal and failure conditions.
- 2 years of experience applying security principles to system design, risk analysis, or application security.
- Practical understanding of common application security failure modes.
- Familiarity with structured threat modeling methodologies such as STRIDE, PASTA, or VAST.
- Experience using threat modeling tools like ThreatModeler, Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool, or OWASP Threat Dragon.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform).
- Ability to read and reason about source code, infrastructure-as-code, or configuration artifacts.
- Scripting or automation experience (e.g., Python) to support analysis or tooling integration.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills to lead architecture and threat modeling discussions.
- Ability to exercise judgment, push back constructively, and make defensible risk decisions.
Desired Qualifications: - Experience building or leading architecture risk reviews or threat modeling efforts across multiple applications or platforms.
- Experience threat modeling cloud-native, distributed, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience threat modeling emerging technologies such as GenAI-enabled systems.
- Familiarity with Threat Modeling as Code (TaaC) or automation-assisted modeling approaches.
- Security or cloud certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform).
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