Defense Solutions Architect

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

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Defense Solutions Architect to shape architectures for high-priority national defense challenges. You will translate mission needs into credible, executable architectures across digital, cyber, autonomy, AI/ML, and infrastructure domains.

You’ll support capture, proposals, and end-to-end solution integration for fast-paced acquisitions. You have 5+ years in solution architecture, systems engineering, or product design, and experience with DoD/government

Qualifications

• 5+ years in solution architecture, systems engineering, or product design
• Experience creating technical solutions in autonomy, AI/ML, and digital infra for defense
• Supports defense capture, proposals, or technical solutioning in government contracting
• Ability to author technical volumes and proposal artifacts
• Willingness to travel up to 25% and to obtain a Secret clearance

Responsibilities

• Lead technical solution development and architecture visioning during capture, shaping, and pre-RFP phases.
• Translate mission needs into actionable solution concepts across domains (digital, cyber, autonomy, AI/ML, infrastructure).
• Produce architecture diagrams, narratives, compliance matrices, and supporting artifacts for bids.
• Collaborate with capture leads, pricing, partners to shape end-to-end solutions and BOEs.

Skills

Solution architecture

MBSE

DevSecOps

AI/ML

Networks

Software engineering

Enterprise IT

Autonomy tech

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or STEM

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Defense Solutions Architect**The Opportunity:**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 technical solution must be right for the mission and delivered fast. You'll 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’ll help transform the way defense customers use technology, including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems.**What You'll Work On:*** 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 such as networks, digital infrastructure, undersea autonomy, artificial intelligence, DevSecOps, and software engineering.* Contribute to proposal development, including technical volumes, solution narratives, color-team reviews, and verbal 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:*** 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, systems engineering, or product design* Experience developing technical solutions and architectures in autonomous vehicles, including UUVs or UAVs, 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* Knowledge of the defense industry and the U.S. government acquisition process* Ability to author technical volumes, solution narratives, or written proposal artifacts* Ability to support DoD or IC clients, including Army, Navy, or Marine Corps missions* Ability to collaborate across capture, pricing, partner, and account leadership to deliver integrated solutions under deadline* Ability to travel up to 25% of the time* Ability to obtain a Secret clearance* Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or a STEM field**Nice If You Have:*** Experience as a solution architect or technical lead on competitive defense captures* Experience architecting solutions across multiple areas* 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 or a technical field* AWS or Azure Solutions Architect Certification* 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**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.