Enterprise Security Systems Architect (Design & Pre-Construction)
Contract: 6 months +
Location: US-based, remote with travel for site surveys
The role
Design authority for enterprise physical security deployments - surveillance, access control, and the supporting network - delivered as part of branch and campus technology programs across commercial and federal customers. This is a design seat. You own the package from site survey through issued-for-construction drawings and commissioning support. You do not install, and the role does not touch monitoring or post-deployment operations.
What you'll own
- Site assessment and existing-condition survey; translating customer security requirements into a buildable design
- Camera placement and coverage design - field of view, lens selection, pixel-per-foot against identification and recognition requirements, lighting and environmental conditions
- Access control design - door schedules, reader and controller placement, lock hardware coordination, credential architecture, integration with existing head-end
- VMS and storage architecture - retention modelling, bandwidth and throughput calculation, recorder and server sizing, failover
- Supporting network design - PoE budgeting, switch and port counts, VLAN segmentation and isolation of the security network, IP schema, MDF and IDF layouts, cable paths and conduit routing
- Issued design documentation - riser diagrams, device schedules, point-to-point drawings, elevations, bill of materials, specifications
- Provisioning and commissioning requirements written into the package - authentication, certificate handling and device onboarding specified so the installing technician brings devices onto the network correctly the first time
- Design-stage support to the installing contractor; review of as-builts and commissioning documentation
- Gap analysis and capability mapping for customers standing up a security program, including migration paths off legacy or end-of-life platforms
Required
- Overall 16+years and 8+ years designing physical security systems at enterprise or multi-site scale
- A portfolio of issued design packages - drawings that an installing contractor built from without interpretation. Portfolio reviewed at interview
- Working command of both the security platform layer and the network beneath it. This role sits on that seam; candidates strong on only one side will struggle in it
- Current manufacturer certification on at least two of: Genetec, Lenel, Brivo, Axis, Avigilon, Verkada, Cisco Meraki
- AutoCAD, plus Bluebeam or Revit
- Familiarity with the governing standards - ONVIF, TIA/EIA structured cabling, NFPA, local AHJ requirements, and NDAA Section 889 where federal end-customers are in scope
Preferred
- Design experience across multiple access control platforms, including integration between them
- Background on an integrator's design or pre-construction desk
- Multi-site retail or banking branch estates - distributed rollouts rather than single-campus
- Active US security clearance
- BICSI RCDD
- ASIS PSP
Accliive, is an Engineering and IT Talent Services company working with Fortune 500 clients and is based out of Boston, MA. Accliive works extensively in all the major industries like Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Aerospace, BFSI, Oil and Gas, Utilities, Healthcare and many more. Acclive is focused on providing customer centric solutions and career centric solutions.
