Lead the Security Engineering function, establishing technical capabilities, platforms, automation and engineering practices to protect the organization at scale.
Responsibilities
Lead and develop the Security Engineering team
Coach and mentor Security Engineers
Establish engineering principles and standards
Own and prioritise the Security Engineering backlog
Lead security architecture and technical authorization readiness for Nominal’s classified deployments, focusing on Special Access Program environments.
Responsibilities
Define security architectures and technical requirements for classified deployments, including SAP environments and other highly restricted customer environments.
Translate customer security requirements, NIST 800-53 controls, applicable CNSSI overlays, STIGs, and program-specific constraints into actionable engineering requirements and implementation plans.
Partner with engineering teams to design and validate security controls across infrastructure, network boundaries, identity and access management, data flows, software delivery, logging, and system monitoring.
Lead resolution of technical security challenges that could impede classified deployments, working directly with customer security stakeholders and internal engineering teams.
Drive technical authorization readiness, including System Security Plan content, architecture diagrams, control narratives, supporting evidence, and other artifacts required for ATO packages.
Lead technical program execution for federal and national security programs, managing cross‑team delivery, security compliance, and partner onboarding.
Locations (3)
Seattle, Washington, United States
McLean, Virginia, United States
United States
Compensation
Salary Range: $220,000-260,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
Responsibilities
Own RCF/RCP program delivery and translate requests into scoped user stories
Establish intake and prioritized backlog with product and partner counterparts
Drive secure deployment readiness across cloud, private‑network, and on‑prem environments
Coordinate release and image handoffs, including versioning, compatibility, and vulnerability scans
Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Federal
Senior Security Engineer for a long‑term embedded contract role on the Platform team, responsible for building and maintaining secure engineering practices and controls across cloud, identity, application, and infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Assess risks across cloud infrastructure, identity, applications and APIs, software delivery, and data protection
Maintain a prioritized improvement backlog based on exposure and business impact
Track standards adoption, exceptions, and unresolved risks
Communicate tradeoffs to engineering leadership
Partner with Engineering Operations on rollout and follow‑through
Lead enterprise quality validation strategy, drive automation and AI-enabled practices, and build a high-performing quality engineering team in a remote setting.
Compensation
$156,600 - $215,400 per year
Responsibilities
Lead enterprise quality validation strategy for end-to-end business workflows, cross-platform integrations, and multi-segment technology initiatives.
Establish standards and operating models for integration assurance, release certification, automation, resiliency testing, and production quality validation.
Provide technical leadership for complex validation scenarios, including dependency mapping, risk-based test planning, automation strategy, test data needs, and environment readiness.
Partner across engineering, architecture, product, DevOps, release management, operations, cybersecurity, and platform teams to manage quality risks, resolve defects, and improve release readiness.
Advance automation-first and AI-enabled quality engineering practices to improve test planning, defect analysis, risk prediction, release confidence, and quality insights.
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