Enterprise AI Orchestration Architect, Senior Manager

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an Enterprise AI Orchestration Architect, Senior Manager, to build reusable agents and intelligent applications for enterprise work in a leadership role. You will design, orchestrate, and test AI-driven workflows, integrate tools, and ensure quality through traces and evaluation datasets.

This is a senior, impact-focused position in McLean, VA. You will collaborate with Platform, Data, and Forward-Deployed Engineering teams to deliver reusable components and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building maintainable applications, APIs, and automated tests using version control and software engineering practices, including proficiency in Python or TypeScript.
• Experience integrating large language models into applications, including prompt and context management, structured outputs, and tool calling.
• Experience implementing agent orchestration, workflow state, retrieval-augmented generation, and enterprise API integrations.
• Experience instrumenting model calls, tool execution, state transitions, and outcomes with logs or distributed traces.
• Experience developing evaluation datasets and regression tests for task success, groundedness, safety, tool correctness, latency, and cost.
• Ability to design appropriate human approval steps, tool permissions, input and output validation, error handling, and fallback behavior.
• Ability to diagnose application failures and distinguish agent behavior defects from data, platform, or customer configuration issues.
• Ability to document interfaces and collaborate on customer readiness and reusable engineering improvements.
• Bachelor’s degree

Skills

Python

TypeScript

LLM integration

Agent orchestration

Tool calling

Logging & tracing

Evaluation datasets

Human approval steps

Interface documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

MCP

OpenTelemetry

LangSmith

Langfuse

Job description

Enterprise AI Orchestration Architect, Senior Manager

The Opportunity: In this role, you’ll build reusable agents and intelligent applications that perform enterprise work reliably. You will develop agent behavior, orchestration, tool integrations, and evaluation capabilities that support customer solutions from demonstration through production. You will translate workflows into tested software using model APIs, retrieval, tool calling, memory, and human oversight. You will instrument execution, maintain evaluation datasets, and improve quality through trace analysis and regression testing. Partnering with Platform, Data, and Forward-Deployed Engineering, you will deliver reusable components, integration contracts, and deployment guidance. You will own agent behavior and application quality, including the evidence needed to validate them. Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience building maintainable applications, APIs, and automated tests using version control and software engineering practices, including proficiency in Python or TypeScript
• Experience integrating large language models into applications, including prompt and context management, structured outputs, and tool calling
• Experience implementing agent orchestration, workflow state, retrieval-augmented generation, and enterprise API integrations
• Experience instrumenting model calls, tool execution, state transitions, and outcomes with logs or distributed traces
• Experience developing evaluation datasets and regression tests for task success, groundedness, safety, tool correctness, latency, and cost
• Ability to design appropriate human approval steps, tool permissions, input and output validation, error handling, and fallback behavior
• Ability to diagnose application failures and distinguish agent behavior defects from data, platform, or customer configuration issues
• Ability to document interfaces and limitations and collaborate on customer readiness and reusable engineering improvements
• Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, MCP, OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Langfuse, or comparable technologies
• Experience with multi-agent coordination, memory design, reusable SDKs, or reference architectures
• Experience with delivering full-stack AI applications or improving production workflows through evaluation and trace analysis

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.

• 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.

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 $162,800.00 to $303,000.00 (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

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Work Model

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

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