Defense Solutions Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life benefits

Disability benefits

Financial benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid leave

Professional development

Tuition assistance

Work-life programs

Dependent care

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Defense Solutions Architect to lead technical solution development and architecture across capture efforts for national defense missions. This role emphasizes translating mission needs into credible architectures and differentiating proposals across digital, cyber, AI/ML, and infrastructure domains.

The position requires senior-level experience in defense architecture, DoD work, and the ability to collaborate across capture, pricing, and partners, with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in solution architecture or systems engineering.
• Experience developing technical solutions and architectures in Undersea Autonomy, MBSE, DevSecOps, Software Engineering, Digital Infrastructure, AI, ML, Networks, or Enterprise IT.
• Experience supporting defense capture, proposals, or technical solutioning in a government or government-contracting environment.
• Experience authoring technical volumes, solution narratives, or written proposal artifacts.
• Experience supporting DoD or IC clients, including Army, Navy, or Marine Corps missions.
• Knowledge of the defense industry and the U.S. Government acquisition process.
• Ability to collaborate across capture, pricing, partner, and account leadership to deliver integrated solutions under deadline.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical solution development and architecture visioning during capture, shaping, and pre-RFP phases.
• Translate customer mission needs into actionable, technically sound solution concepts and win themes across digital, cyber, autonomy, AI/ML, and infrastructure domains.
• Produce and refine solution narratives, technical volumes, architecture diagrams, compliance matrices, and supporting artifacts for bids.
• Evaluate competitor approaches, teaming strategies, and price-to-win considerations to ensure solutions are differentiated and winnable.
• Surge across pursuits, flexing to the highest-priority opportunities as capture demands shift.
• Partner closely with Capture Leads, Pricing, and industry and technology partners to shape end-to-end solutions, basis-of-estimate (BOE) inputs, and bills of materials.
• Bring hands-on depth in one or more focus areas: Networks, Digital Infrastructure, Undersea Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence, DevSecOps, and Software Engineering.
• Contribute to proposal development, including technical volumes, solution narratives, color-team reviews, and oral presentation preparation.
• Apply knowledge of defense acquisition pathways, such as AAF, CSOs, MITA, OTAs, or SBIR/STTR to align solutions to contracting approaches.
• Stay current on defense technology trends and the venture and partner ecosystem, with a focus on injecting COTS capabilities into government proposals.

Skills

Solutions architecture

Systems engineering

Undersea Autonomy

MBSE

DevSecOps

Software engineering

AI / ML

Networks

Digital Infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or STEM Field or 5+ years of military experience in a technical engineering field in lieu of a degree

Job description

The Opportunity

At a certain point, experience-based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you have developed so many systems that you can not only orchestrate the best solution for any technology-based challenge, but you can also anticipate and preempt future issues, you are a solutions architect. You have evolved your skills into strategy through a long path of software development accomplishments and the curiosity to understand how all of the pieces of an IT ecosystem fit together. Are you ready to use your combination of knowledge, skill, and experience to take on the toughest challenges across maritime and ground missions?

This is a role for a technologist who wants to shape solutions for the nation's most critical national defense challenges: partnering with capture teams on competitive pursuits and supporting high-speed acquisitions where the timeline is compressed and the technical solution has to be right for the mission, delivered fast. You will translate complex mission needs into credible, differentiated, and executable technical architectures across a portfolio of opportunities rather than from inside a single program of record. With your guidance, we will help transform the way defense customers use technology including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems.

Job Number: R0246764
Title: Defense Solutions Architect

What You’ll Do

• Lead technical solution development and architecture visioning during capture, shaping, and pre-RFP phases.
• Translate customer mission needs into actionable, technically sound solution concepts and win themes across digital, cyber, autonomy, AI/ML, and infrastructure domains.
• Produce and refine solution narratives, technical volumes, architecture diagrams, compliance matrices, and supporting artifacts for bids.
• Evaluate competitor approaches, teaming strategies, and price-to-win considerations to ensure solutions are differentiated and winnable.
• Surge across pursuits, flexing to the highest-priority opportunities as capture demands shift.
• Partner closely with Capture Leads, Pricing, and industry and technology partners to shape end-to-end solutions, basis-of-estimate (BOE) inputs, and bills of materials.
• Bring hands-on depth in one or more focus areas: Networks, Digital Infrastructure, Undersea Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence, DevSecOps, and Software Engineering.
• Contribute to proposal development, including technical volumes, solution narratives, color-team reviews, and oral presentation preparation.
• Apply knowledge of defense acquisition pathways, such as Adaptive Acquisition Framework, Commercial Solutions Openings, Middle-Tier Acquisition, Other Transaction Authorities, or SBIR/STTR to align solutions to the right contracting approach.
• Stay current on defense technology trends and the venture and partner ecosystem, with a focus on injecting COTS capabilities into government proposals, and build reusable solution assets that scale across pursuits and accounts.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have

• 8+ years of experience in solution architecture or systems engineering
• Experience developing technical solutions and architectures in one or more of the following: Undersea Autonomy, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), DevSecOps, Software Engineering, Digital Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Networks, or Enterprise IT
• Experience supporting defense capture, proposals, or technical solutioning in a government or government-contracting environment
• Experience authoring technical volumes, solution narratives, or written proposal artifacts
• Experience supporting DoD or IC clients, including Army, Navy, or Marine Corps missions
• Knowledge of the defense industry and the U.S. Government acquisition process
• Ability to collaborate across capture, pricing, partner, and account leadership to deliver integrated solutions under deadline
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or STEM Field or 5+ years of military experience in a technical engineering field in the military in lieu of a degree

Nice If You Have

• Experience as a solution architect or technical lead on competitive defense captures
• Experience architecting solutions across more than one of the focus areas above
• Knowledge of rapid prototyping and high-speed acquisition environments
• Knowledge of multi-domain operations and joint warfighting concepts
• Secret clearance
• Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) or a technical field
• AWS or Azure Solutions Architect certification and CISSP, Security+, or DoD 8570 IAT or IAM certification

Clearance

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

Compensation

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Benefits

• Health benefits
• Life benefits
• Disability benefits
• Financial benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care

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