Mission-Driven Defense Solutions Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton; North Dakota; On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a seasoned technologist to shape defense solutions and lead architecture during capture efforts. You will translate complex mission needs into credible architectures across digital, cyber, AI/ML, and infrastructure domains.

Join a team that collaborates with capture, pricing, and industry partners to deliver differentiated, winning proposals while navigating defense acquisition pathways and ensuring readiness for high-speed acquisitions.

Qualifications

• 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, 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
• 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

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 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.

Skills

Solution architecture

Systems engineering

Product design

Ability to travel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or STEM

Master's degree in Business Administration or technical field

Tools

MBSE

AWS or Azure Solutions Architect Certification

CISSP / DoD 8570 IAT/IAM Certification

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a seasoned technologist to shape defense solutions and lead architecture during capture efforts. You will translate complex mission needs into credible architectures across digital, cyber, AI/ML, and infrastructure domains.

Join a team that collaborates with capture, pricing, and industry partners to deliver differentiated, winning proposals while navigating defense acquisition pathways and ensuring readiness for high-speed acquisitions.