Real-Time Event-Driven Solutions Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton; San Antonio, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Solution Architect to design and implement end-to-end streaming architectures for real-time data ingestion and processing. You will work with full-stack engineers and data scientists to deploy scalable, fault-tolerant systems across AWS or Azure.

Responsibilities include defining event-driven microservices, establishing data contracts, and ensuring observability and security by design. Travel up to 25% and a Secret clearance may be required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software and solution architecture
• 2+ years of experience building realtime services using WebSockets and data pipelines
• Experience with REST APIs, WebSockets, and C#
• Experience Agile Methodology, Git, JavaScript, CSS, Swagger, OpenAPI, RESTful APIs, AWS, and Azure
• Experience with relational (PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) data architectures
• Experience with data streaming technologies and distributed message queues
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments

Responsibilities

• Define and own streaming architecture (pub/sub, fanout, backpressure and event-driven microservices)
• Select, configure, and scale distributed messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS), WebSockets/grpc, and API gateways
• Establish data contracts and schema evolution (Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema) with registry and compatibility policies
• Design for observability (OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, SLOs) and resiliency (idempotency, retries, circuit breakers)
• Lead cloud-native deployments on Docker and Kubernetes; guide infrastructure choices across AWS or Azure
• Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and champion SDLC best practices

Skills

Software architecture

Realtime services

REST APIs/WebSockets

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Solution Architect to design and implement end-to-end streaming architectures for real-time data ingestion and processing. You will work with full-stack engineers and data scientists to deploy scalable, fault-tolerant systems across AWS or Azure.

Responsibilities include defining event-driven microservices, establishing data contracts, and ensuring observability and security by design. Travel up to 25% and a Secret clearance may be required.