Principal System Architect / SME

Who we are: ShorePoint is a fast-growing, industry-recognized and award-winning cybersecurity services firm focused on high-profile, high-threat public and private sector customers who demand experience and proven security models to protect their data. We embrace a “work hard, play hard” mentality and celebrate individual and company successes. We are passionate about our mission and going above and beyond to deliver for our customers, while fostering an environment that supports creativity, accountability, mission success, critical thinking and a desire to give back to our community. The Perks: As recognized members of the Cyber Elite, we work together in partnership to defend our nation’s critical infrastructure while building meaningful and exciting career development opportunities in a culture tailored to the individual’s technical and professional growth. We are committed to the belief that our team members do their best work when they are happy and well cared for. In support of this philosophy, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, major carriers for healthcare providers. Highlighted benefits include 144 hours of PTO, 11 holidays, 85% of insurance premiums covered, a 401(k), continuing education, certification maintenance and reimbursement and more. Who we’re looking for: We are seeking a Principal System Architect / subject matter expert (SME) to lead an enterprise Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) program for a federal agency and help establish the technical direction for transitioning from classical to quantum-resistant cryptography. This hands-on team lead role provides day-to-day direction to senior architects and engineers, supports workload coordination and partners with government stakeholders to advance PQC migration, crypto-agility and enterprise cybersecurity architecture. The Principal System Architect / SME position requires enterprise security architecture expertise, technical leadership and the ability to communicate complex program status, progress and value to technical teams and leadership. This is a unique opportunity to shape the growth, development and culture of an exciting and fast-growing company in the cybersecurity market. What you’ll be doing: Lead and technically supervise a team of senior systems architects and engineers, providing daily direction and mentorship. Advise the project manager on workload distribution and staffing across the systems team. Shape and support the agency’s PQC migration strategy in alignment with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) post-quantum standards and Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) 2.0 requirements. Lead and conduct cryptographic inventory and discovery efforts to identify systems, protocols and data stores exposed to quantum decryption risk, including “harvest now, decrypt later” threats. Establish crypto-agility standards to enable systems to transition between classical and post-quantum algorithms with minimal re-architecture. Advise on hybrid classical/PQC implementation approaches to protect systems during the migration period. Evaluate NIST-selected PQC algorithms, including ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA, for suitability across enterprise use cases, performance constraints and system requirements. Gather and develop enterprise cybersecurity architecture requirements with federal stakeholders, building on analysis from information engineers. Produce design architectures covering software, hardware and communications that meet current needs and anticipate future cross-functional requirements and interfaces. Design, implement and baseline enterprise cybersecurity capability configurations. Validate and verify capability implementations and ongoing configuration changes to confirm they meet intended security outcomes. Develop policy aligned with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maturity models, including the Zero Trust Maturity Model and NIST standards while ensuring architectures remain com