Security / Compliance Architect at NATIONMIND LLC

United States

$0.062k - $0.065k

<div class="trix-content"> <div>About NationMind LLC:</div><div>NationMind LLC is a technology consulting firm focused on software development and QA testing services. We help clients build reliable, scalable applications with a strong emphasis on automation, performance, and quality. Our team works across industries, delivering solutions that drive innovation and operational efficiency. We are currently hiring skilled professionals for <strong>Security / Compliance Architect</strong> to join our growing team.</div><div><strong> </strong></div><div> <strong>Position:</strong> <strong> </strong>Security / Compliance Architect – DLP, CUI Boundary, and Secure Enclave</div><div> <strong>Location</strong>: remote</div><div>3 months Contract</div><div> </div><div><strong>Role Summary</strong></div><div>The Security / Compliance Architect is the primary security design authority for the engagement. This role is responsible for defining the controlled data boundary, translating compliance and business requirements into enforceable controls, shaping the secure enclave design, and ensuring the overall solution is defensible from a governance, audit, and risk-management standpoint.</div><div>This is a client-facing onshore role requiring strong experience in data protection, compliance-aligned architecture, information protection controls, and regulated collaboration environments.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></div><ul> <li>Lead the definition of the <strong>controlled data / CUI boundary</strong>, including in-scope users, repositories, workflows, endpoints, and approved handling paths.</li> <li>Translate customer requirements into a <strong>target-state security architecture</strong> for a secure collaboration enclave.</li> <li>Define the <strong>DLP and information protection strategy</strong> across collaboration, email, endpoint, and removable media channels.</li> <li>Establish the control intent for classification, labeling, monitoring, restriction, blocking, exception handling, and audit evidence generation.</li> <li>Drive alignment between business process requirements and security control design to ensure the solution is usable as well as compliant.</li> <li>Lead design decisions related to:<br> <ul> <li>approved vs non-approved storage locations </li> <li>secure collaboration patterns </li> <li>external sharing restrictions </li> <li>exception governance </li> <li>evidence and logging requirements</li> </ul> </li> <li> </li> <li>Review current-state data handling patterns and identify exposure points, control gaps, and architectural risks.</li> <li>Produce client-facing security design artifacts, including boundary definitions, control strategies, architecture requirements, and decision packs.</li> <li>Support design reviews, steering discussions, and executive readouts.</li> <li>Work closely with the platform lead to ensure Microsoft control implementation aligns with security intent.</li> <li>Support pilot validation by reviewing policy effectiveness, exception scenarios, usability impacts, and audit defensibility.</li> <li>Provide oversight during deployment and handover to ensure the final state aligns with the approved security design.</li> </ul><div> </div><div><strong>Required Skills and Experience</strong></div><ul> <li>8+ years in cybersecurity architecture, security consulting, or security engineering roles.</li> <li>Strong experience in one or more of the following:<br> <ul> <li>Data Loss Prevention </li> <li>Information Protection / Data Classification </li> <li>Secure collaboration architecture </li> <li>Microsoft Purview / MIP / DLP </li> <li>Compliance-driven security design </li> </ul> </li> <li>Experience defining and operationalizing controls for sensitive or regulated data.</li> <li>Strong understanding of:<br> <ul> <li>secure data boundaries </li> <li>access control and least privilege concepts </li> <li>audit evidence requirements </li> <li>policy exception governance </li> <li>endpoint, email, and collaboration security controls </li> </ul> </li> <li>Experience working directly with business stakeholders, security leadership, and platform teams in regulated environments.</li> <li>Strong workshop facilitation, requirements analysis, and executive communication skills.</li> <li>Ability to convert ambiguous customer requirements into precise security architecture decisions.</li> </ul><div> </div> </div> <p>This is a remote position.</p>