Security Architect Jobs in Virginia
Security Architect jobs in Virginia are among the most active in the country, concentrated in defense contracting, federal civilian agencies, and financial services, with openings from entry-level analyst roles through principal and staff-level architects. The heaviest hiring runs across the Northern Virginia corridor, Richmond, and the Hampton Roads area, where employers like Booz Allen Hamilton, Leidos, and General Dynamics Information Technology maintain a consistent presence. Cloud security, zero-trust architecture, and compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP and NIST RMF are the most in-demand specialties across Virginia listings. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Application Security Architect
All IT Solutions
United States · Richmond, VA
Workplace Type — Hybrid
Employment Type — Contract
We are currently seeking a qualified Application Security Architect to support this engagement. Please review the complete requirements, work location, employment type, and screening questions before applying. Candidates whose experience closely matches the position will be contacted directly by the AIS recruiting team.
Job Summary
All IT Solutions is seeking an Application Security Architect to join a client engagement.
Responsibilities
- Lead the data protection strategy, data governance frameworks, and privacy posture across our state-wide transportation ecosystem.
- Define how structured, unstructured, and spatial data (GIS) are classified, encrypted, stored, and accessed across cloud data platforms. support architecture, development, and cybersecurity teams to perform threat modeling, secure architectural designs and ensure compliance with the client
- Define application-security architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference implementations, and guardrails for web, mobile, API, microservice, and cloud-native systems Perform architecture and design reviews, identify trust boundaries, attack paths, data flows, security gaps, and compensating controls
- Lead or facilitate threat modeling for new applications, major features, integrations, and high-risk changes Establish repeatable security requirements for authentication, authorization, session management, encryption, secrets management, logging, privacy, API protection, and data protection
Required Qualifications
- Must be local to the Richmond, VA area (onsite presence required)
- Software engineering, application security, security engineering, or related technical roles (10 Years)
- Experience in designing and implementing security architecture for IT systems (6 Years)
- Secure software-development principles and common risks, including the OWASP Top 10, insecure authorization, injection, deserialization and API abuse (6 Years)
- Design and implement end-to-end security architectures for data-at-rest, in-transit, and in-use for full MS stack (Azure, O365, Power Platform, D365) (6 Years)
- Demonstrated experience with threat modeling and security architecture reviews (6 Years)
- Experience securing APIs, web applications, distributed systems, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized workloads (6 Years)
- Experience with identity, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWTs, authorization design, PKI/TLS, encryption, and secrets-management practices (6 Years)
- Strong written communication skills, including ability to create architecture diagrams, standards, risk assessments, and actionable remediation plans (10 Years)
Preferred Qualifications
- Certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CCSP, GIAC, or relevant vendor credentials are highly desired This role will be responsible for the solution of secure software development lifecycle program across a hybrid ecosystem, spanning complex web applications, Agentic AI solutions, cloud-native solutions, enterprise GIS platforms, low-code no-code and create patterns.
- Experience in a regulated environment such as financial services, healthcare, government, or payments
- Experience conducting or coordinating penetration testing and translating results into durable architectural improvements
- Experience implementing DevSecOps programs and security automation at scale
- Familiarity with privacy engineering, data classification, and compliance frameworks
- Experience with security architectures in Esri's ArcGIS platform
ABOUT ALL IT SOLUTIONS LLC
Headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, All IT Solutions LLC is a technology and workforce solutions company serving government and commercial organizations throughout the United States. AIS provides IT staffing and staff augmentation, cybersecurity, IT consulting, custom software development, cloud services, data engineering, artificial intelligence, application development, and related technology solutions.
AIS is an NMSDC/EMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise and an NYC Department of Small Business Services-certified M/WBE. We participate in E-Verify and are committed to maintaining professional, transparent, and compliant hiring practices.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
All IT Solutions LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, performance, and legitimate business requirements without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified applicants with disabilities during the application and interview process.
RECRUITMENT NOTICE
All IT Solutions LLC is a staffing and technology services company and may receive fees or compensation from client organizations for recruiting, staffing, placement, or workforce services. Candidates are never charged an application, recruitment, placement, or interview fee by All IT Solutions LLC.
Any commercial rates, fees, or staffing arrangements are between All IT Solutions LLC and its clients and do not require payment from the candidate.
Official recruiting communications will come from an authorized All IT Solutions representative or an @allitsolutions.us email address.
Apply
Apply Now: https://careers.allitsolutions.net/jobs/application-security-architect-2026-3fab2bd8/apply
Application Security Architect
All IT Solutions
United States · Richmond, VA
Workplace Type — Hybrid
Employment Type — Contract
We are currently seeking a qualified Application Security Architect to support this engagement. Please review the complete requirements, work location, employment type, and screening questions before applying. Candidates whose experience closely matches the position will be contacted directly by the AIS recruiting team.
Job Summary
All IT Solutions is seeking an Application Security Architect to join a client engagement.
Responsibilities
- Lead the data protection strategy, data governance frameworks, and privacy posture across our state-wide transportation ecosystem.
- Define how structured, unstructured, and spatial data (GIS) are classified, encrypted, stored, and accessed across cloud data platforms. support architecture, development, and cybersecurity teams to perform threat modeling, secure architectural designs and ensure compliance with the client
- Define application-security architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference implementations, and guardrails for web, mobile, API, microservice, and cloud-native systems Perform architecture and design reviews, identify trust boundaries, attack paths, data flows, security gaps, and compensating controls
- Lead or facilitate threat modeling for new applications, major features, integrations, and high-risk changes Establish repeatable security requirements for authentication, authorization, session management, encryption, secrets management, logging, privacy, API protection, and data protection
Required Qualifications
- Must be local to the Richmond, VA area (onsite presence required)
- Software engineering, application security, security engineering, or related technical roles (10 Years)
- Experience in designing and implementing security architecture for IT systems (6 Years)
- Secure software-development principles and common risks, including the OWASP Top 10, insecure authorization, injection, deserialization and API abuse (6 Years)
- Design and implement end-to-end security architectures for data-at-rest, in-transit, and in-use for full MS stack (Azure, O365, Power Platform, D365) (6 Years)
- Demonstrated experience with threat modeling and security architecture reviews (6 Years)
- Experience securing APIs, web applications, distributed systems, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized workloads (6 Years)
- Experience with identity, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWTs, authorization design, PKI/TLS, encryption, and secrets-management practices (6 Years)
- Strong written communication skills, including ability to create architecture diagrams, standards, risk assessments, and actionable remediation plans (10 Years)
Preferred Qualifications
- Certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CCSP, GIAC, or relevant vendor credentials are highly desired This role will be responsible for the solution of secure software development lifecycle program across a hybrid ecosystem, spanning complex web applications, Agentic AI solutions, cloud-native solutions, enterprise GIS platforms, low-code no-code and create patterns.
- Experience in a regulated environment such as financial services, healthcare, government, or payments
- Experience conducting or coordinating penetration testing and translating results into durable architectural improvements
- Experience implementing DevSecOps programs and security automation at scale
- Familiarity with privacy engineering, data classification, and compliance frameworks
- Experience with security architectures in Esri's ArcGIS platform
ABOUT ALL IT SOLUTIONS LLC
Headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, All IT Solutions LLC is a technology and workforce solutions company serving government and commercial organizations throughout the United States. AIS provides IT staffing and staff augmentation, cybersecurity, IT consulting, custom software development, cloud services, data engineering, artificial intelligence, application development, and related technology solutions.
AIS is an NMSDC/EMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise and an NYC Department of Small Business Services-certified M/WBE. We participate in E-Verify and are committed to maintaining professional, transparent, and compliant hiring practices.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
All IT Solutions LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, performance, and legitimate business requirements without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified applicants with disabilities during the application and interview process.
RECRUITMENT NOTICE
All IT Solutions LLC is a staffing and technology services company and may receive fees or compensation from client organizations for recruiting, staffing, placement, or workforce services. Candidates are never charged an application, recruitment, placement, or interview fee by All IT Solutions LLC.
Any commercial rates, fees, or staffing arrangements are between All IT Solutions LLC and its clients and do not require payment from the candidate.
Official recruiting communications will come from an authorized All IT Solutions representative or an @allitsolutions.us email address.
Apply
Apply Now: https://careers.allitsolutions.net/jobs/application-security-architect-2026-3fab2bd8/apply
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The qualifications that appear most often in security architect jobs across Virginia.
- Active security clearance at Secret or Top Secret level required for most Virginia roles
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a closely related field
- CISSP, CISM, or equivalent professional security certification required or strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience designing zero-trust and cloud security architectures at enterprise scale
- Working knowledge of NIST RMF, FedRAMP, CMMC, or related federal compliance frameworks
- Experience leading security architecture reviews and communicating risk to senior stakeholders
Security Architect Jobs in Virginia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a security architect in Virginia?
Most security architects in Virginia start with a bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or information systems, then build several years of hands-on security engineering or analyst experience before moving into architecture roles. Virginia has no state-issued license for this role, but the federal contracting market here places significant weight on security clearances and certifications such as CISSP or CISM. Candidates who target DoD or civilian agency contractors should pursue clearance eligibility early and gain familiarity with NIST RMF and FedRAMP.
How much do security architects make in Virginia?
Security architects in Virginia earn a median of about $134,900 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $81,410 for the lowest 10% to over $205,750 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire security architects in Virginia?
Employers hiring security architects in Virginia right now include Amazon Web Services, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Akima, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Virginia's concentration of defense contractors and federal IT integrators means many of the largest and most consistent openings come from firms supporting government agency missions in the Northern Virginia corridor.
Which Virginia cities have the most security architect jobs?
Richmond, McLean, and Herndon lead Virginia for security architect openings. Northern Virginia dominates because of the dense cluster of federal agencies, intelligence community offices, and defense contractors headquartered or operating there, while Richmond and Hampton Roads draw consistent demand from financial institutions, state government IT offices, and military installation support contractors.
Are there remote security architect jobs in Virginia?
Yes, and more than many technical roles, though a significant share of Virginia positions require on-site presence due to clearance and facility access requirements. About 55% of security architect openings tied to Virginia are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting a split between cleared government work that demands physical presence and commercial or cloud-focused roles that operate fully remote. Architecture and advisory work tied to commercial clients tends to be the most remote-accessible subset.
How can I get hired as a security architect in Virginia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a junior security analyst or SOC analyst role at a Virginia defense contractor or federal IT integrator, where you build hands-on exposure to the frameworks Virginia employers care about most, such as NIST RMF and CMMC. Firms like Booz Allen Hamilton and Leidos run associate and early-career programs that hire candidates with relevant degrees and entry-level certifications such as Security+ or CompTIA CySA+. From an analyst position, consistent work on architecture review boards or system authorization packages accelerates the move into a formal architect title.
Where can I find and apply to security architect jobs in Virginia?
You can find and apply to security architect jobs in Virginia on Migrate Mate, which lists current Virginia openings updated regularly. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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