Cybersecurity Architecture & Threat Engineering Architect - Boston,MA - Onsite - Must be local

Location: Woburn MA - onsite parking available

Duration: ASAP 1 year plus contract

Technical - SOC Analysis, cybersecurity

Interview Process: 2 ROUNDS 1st via teams and 2nd will be onsite

Background Check + Drug Test (if applicable):

Hours / Shift (if applicable): 8AM-5PM are the core hours

We are seeking a Cybersecurity Architecture & Threat Engineering Architect to lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise security monitoring, detection, threat hunting, and cyber defense capabilities. This role will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for defining security architecture standards, developing detection engineering strategies, and ensuring the organization can effectively identify, investigate, and respond to sophisticated cyber threats across cloud, endpoint, network, identity, and messaging environments.

The ideal candidate combines deep cybersecurity expertise with security architecture experience, threat intelligence knowledge, and the ability to influence enterprise-wide security strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, and cyber defense architectures across cloud, network, endpoint, identity, and email platforms.
• Establish and mature threat hunting methodologies, detection engineering standards, and security operations frameworks aligned with MITRE ATT&CK and industry best practices.
• Define security architecture requirements for SIEM, EDR, XDR, SOAR, threat intelligence, and logging solutions.
• Lead the development of advanced detection use cases, correlation rules, dashboards, threat models, and automated response capabilities.
• Architect telemetry collection, log management, and security data strategies to improve enterprise visibility and threat detection effectiveness.
• Partner with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Application teams to integrate security controls and monitoring capabilities into enterprise platforms.
• Evaluate emerging threats, adversary tactics, and attack trends to enhance defensive architectures and detection coverage.
• Lead proactive threat hunting initiatives and provide technical guidance during complex investigations and incident response activities.
• Drive security architecture reviews, risk assessments, and security control evaluations for new technologies and enterprise initiatives.
• Define vulnerability management and security control improvement roadmaps while tracking remediation efforts across business units.
• Develop executive-level recommendations, cybersecurity roadmaps, and strategic initiatives to strengthen overall cyber resilience.
• Mentor junior analysts, detection engineers, and security team members while promoting architecture and engineering best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity with at least 3+ years focused on security architecture, detection engineering, threat hunting, or security engineering.
• Strong understanding of security architecture principles across cloud, infrastructure, identity, applications, and enterprise platforms.
• Deep expertise in MITRE ATT&CK, threat modeling, cyber kill chain methodologies, adversary emulation, and threat detection frameworks.
• Experience architecting and supporting SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and threat intelligence platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, CrowdStrike, Splunk, QRadar, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing security controls and monitoring strategies for Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments.
• Strong knowledge of email security, data protection, and information governance technologies including Microsoft Defender, Purview, and Mimecast.
• Experience designing automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, KQL, or similar languages.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to present technical concepts to executive and business stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross-functional cybersecurity initiatives and influencing enterprise security strategy.