Solution Architect
The Opportunity:

As a Solution Architect on our team, you'll translate customer IT needs and future goals into actionable architecture plans by crafting design specifications, requirements, and integration strategies. With your guidance, we'll help transform the way national security organizations use technology, including secure mobility, cloud migration, and modernization of legacy systems. And what do you do next in a career where you've reached this level? You mentor the next set of engineers to help them grow into tomorrow's architects.

What You'll Do:

• Provide technical leadership for specifying, designing, implementing, testing, accrediting, deploying, and sustaining enterprise system and service architectures in distributed, net-centric environments.
• Develop solution architectures, technical roadmaps, and design documentation integrating systems across multiple domains.
• Lead stakeholder workshops and technical interchange meetings, translating complex architectures into clear, actionable language.
• Incorporate security and compliance frameworks, such as DoD STIGs, RMF, and NIST 800-53/171, into design baselines.
• Stay current on technologies, such as secure mobility platforms, encryption, mobile device management (MDM), VPN solutions, and CSfC-compliant components.

Work with us to transform the future of digital platforms.

Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience leading or supporting enterprise or mission-system architecture for defense, intelligence, or federal programs
• Experience developing solution architectures, technical roadmaps, and design documentation integrating systems across multiple domains
• Experience producing or governing architecture artifacts, such as system views, interface specs, or decision records, for technical reviews and audits
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks, such as DoD STIGs, RMF, or NIST 800-53/171, infrastructure integration, and networking concepts, including data flows and segmentation
• Ability to lead stakeholder workshops and executive briefings, coordinate technical schedules, manage risks, and validate implementation against architecture intent
• Ability to influence technical direction and build consensus among stakeholders
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM or Management field
• CompTIA Security+ CE or INCOSE CSEP Certification

Nice If You Have:

• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale architectures within DoD environments and leading secure mobility and CSfC-compliant solutions
• Knowledge ofCSfC requirements, NIAP Protection Profiles, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools, such as Jenkins, Terraform, or Ansible
• TS/SCI clearance preferred
• CISSP, CISM, INCOSE ESEP, or ITIL Foundation Certification

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secretclearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual's particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen's total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.