{"id":1358490,"url":"https://alion.io/job/maltego-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-senior-solutions-architect","title":"Senior Forward Deployed Engineer / Senior Solutions Architect","company":{"id":1782436,"name":"Maltego","domain":"maltego.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/maltego","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Personio","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Washington, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":124000,"max_usd":243000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":766},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Maltego","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"FedRAMP","optional":true},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-23T09:11:49Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-23","last_verified_at":"2026-10-21T15:15:36Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":90,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":90},"description":"Why we need you\nWe are standing up forward deployed engineering for our U.S. Federal business. This is a new, senior, high-visibility position - the first of its kind on our U.S. team - created to support a major federal civilian customer as our vetting and open-source investigative capabilities scale for National Security mission sets.This role is not a help desk function nor a back-office integration job. This position requires someone who understands government customers, can hold a technical conversation with engineers and a mission conversation with analysts, and can operate independently inside a customer environment while representing Maltego with credibility.\nThis position is intentionally designed as a hybrid technical leadership role that bridges customer mission success, product evolution, and deployment execution. The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer / Senior Solutions Architect serves as the primary technical interface between Maltego Federal, government stakeholders, and internal engineering teams, requiring a balanced focus across customer engagement, solution delivery, and strategic growth activities.\nIn short, you are the bridge between a sophisticated government mission set and our engineering organization, and you will own the technical relationship as the account expands across the enterprise.\nWhat to expect\nAs Maltego Federal's first Forward Deployed Engineer, you will serve as the primary technical representative within a strategic federal customer environment, ensuring mission requirements are successfully translated into deployed, operational capabilities.Your responsibilities will include: \nCustomer Technical LeadershipServe as the embedded technical lead and trusted advisor to government analysts, program managers, and technical stakeholders.\nLead requirements discovery sessions, workflow design workshops, and operational reviews.\nGuideanalyst adoption and ensure mission outcomes are achieved through effective platform utilization.\nTranslate customer requirements into actionable engineering, product, and deployment priorities.\nEstablish and maintain trusted technical relationships across customer organizations.\n\nIntegration and Solution DevelopmentDesign and implement end-to-end integration architectures connecting Maltegointo customer systems, enclaves, and third-party technologies.\nDevelop and guide custom transforms, automations, and integrations \nSupport data-source onboarding, identity resolution workflows, and automated discovery processes.\nDeliver scalable technical solutions that extend platform capabilities within customer environments.\n\nDeployment, Security, and Accreditation Support Support deployment activities across SaaS, government-hosted, and classified environments.\nContribute technical artifacts and documentation supporting ATO and accreditation efforts.\nValidate solution performance, security controls, and operational readiness.\nSupport pilot deployments, initial operating capability, and enterprise rollout activities.\n\nProduct Feedback and Operational OptimizationEvaluate AI classifier performance, detection accuracy, precision/recall trade-offs, and analyst review workflows.\nMeasure operational outcomes and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency.\nConvert customer feedback into prioritized, evidence-based requirements for engineering and product teams.\nAct as a conduit between customer users, product management, and engineering.\n\nFederal Growth and Practice DevelopmentSupport technical solutioning, demonstrations, and responses to government requirements.\nIdentify opportunities for account expansion and increased mission impact.\nContribute to the development of forward-deployed engineering methodologies, playbooks, and best practices.\nHelp establish the foundation for a scalable Federal Forward Deployed Engineering organization as the business grows\n\nYour profile in short\nActive U.S. Government security clearance at the Secret level or above, currently in scope. TS/SCI preferred.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience considered.\n5+ years in solutions architecture, forward-deployed engineering, technical consulting, field systems engineering, or systems integration with a substantial portion supporting U.S. Government customers.\nDemonstrated experience as the technical face of a product or program inside a government customer site, including direct interaction with end users, program managers, and CIO/technical authorities.\nStrong Python development skills and practical API integration experience.\nWorking knowledge of cloud hosting (AWS preferred), virtualization, containerization, and distributed systems.\nUnderstanding of secure system architecture, information assurance concepts, and deployment into regulated or accredited environments.\nAbility to run a technical workstream end-to-end - scoping, delivery, testing, deployment, and handover - with minimal supervision.\nExcellent written and verbal communication; able to translate between mission language and engineering language in both directions.\nWillingness to travel up to 40%,including to overseas posts.\nPreferred qualifications Prior service with or direct support to the U.S. Department of State, particularly the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the Bureau of Consular Affairs, or the CIO/Diplomatic Technology organization.\nFamiliarity with the Authority to Operate (ATO) process, RMF, FedRAMP, or equivalent accreditation pathways.\nBackground in OSINT, SOCMINT, identity resolution, vetting, screening, or adjudication workflows.\nExperience with data acquisition strategy - evaluating and onboarding commercial and open data sources against cost, coverage, and mission fit.\nExposure to machine learning classifier evaluation in an operational setting (precision/recall tuning, false positive management under limited PII).\nExperience as a Field Service Representative or equivalent embedded technical role.\nFamiliarity with the Maltego platform or comparable link analysis and investigative tooling.\nAbout this opening\nEqual Opportunity:Maltego Federal LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation and verification of clearance eligibility. \nWhy you will love Maltego\nWhat we offer:A first-in-seat role with real scope: you will shape how forward deployed engineering works at Maltego in the U.S., not inherit someone else's playbook.\nDirect access to leadership and to the engineering and product teams building the capability you deploy.\nWork that visibly matters, on programs with national security significance.\nCompetitive base salary, comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), and paid time off.\nA motivated, international team and the pace of a growing technology company.\nLocation\nWashington, DC metro area: Hybrid with onsite at customer facilitiesRequired documents / information\nPlease submit a resume outlining your relevant federal program experience and clearance status, along with a brief statement of interest.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7339,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Government","Intelligence"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-27T23:07:59Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":24,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.667,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":89,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/maltego-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-senior-solutions-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/maltego-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-senior-solutions-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T15:33:00Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":22115,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1782436},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1782436"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmaltego-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-senior-solutions-architect"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmaltego-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-senior-solutions-architect"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmaltego-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-senior-solutions-architect"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/maltego-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-senior-solutions-architect\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmaltego-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-senior-solutions-architect"}]}