Solution Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton; Annapolis, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

Work-life programs

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Solution Architect who translates customer IT needs and future goals into actionable architecture plans, crafting design specs, requirements, and integration strategies for national security missions.

You’ll mentor engineers, guide secure mobility initiatives, modernize legacy systems, and design CSfC-aligned architectures while collaborating with stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading or supporting enterprise or mission-system architecture for defense, intelligence, or federal programs.
• Experience developing solution architectures and roadmaps across multiple domains.
• Experience producing architecture artifacts such as system views, interface specs, or decision records.
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as DoD STIGs, RMF, or NIST 800-53 / 171.
• Ability to lead workshops and briefings, coordinate schedules, manage risks, and validate implementation against architecture intent.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM or Management field.
• CompTIA Security+ CE or INCOSE CSEP Certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for designing and sustaining enterprise architectures.
• Develop architectures, roadmaps, and design documentation across domains.
• Lead stakeholder workshops and technical interchange meetings.
• Incorporate security frameworks into design baselines.
• Stay current on secure mobility, encryption, MDM, VPN, CSfC components.
• Define system-of-systems integration approaches and governance models.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Security compliance

Stakeholder workshops

Technical leadership

DoD RMF/STIGs knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM or Management

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Join a culture of empowerment and connectivity.

Develop your craft

Learn the skills you need to accelerate your career.

Discover benefits that your life and work.

Innovate with intention

Build mission-ready tech that protects the nation.

At a certain point, experience -based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you’ve 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’re a solutions architect. You’ve evolved your skills into strategy through a long path of sof tware development accomplishments and the curiosity to understand how all 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 in secure enterprise architecture for national security missions, including classified communications and Commer cia l Solutions for Classified ( CSfC ) ?

As a Solution Architect on our team, you’ll translate customer IT needs and future goals into actionable architecture plans by crafting design specifications, requirements, and integration strategies. With your guidance, we’ll help transform the way national security organizations use technology, including secure mobility, modernization of legacy systems, and the development of CSfC-aligned architectures and integration strategies. And what do you do next in a career where you’ve reached this level? You mentor the next set of engineers to help them grow into tomorrow’s architects.

What You'll Work On:

• Provide technical leadership for specifying, designing, implementing, testing, accrediting, deploying, and sustaining enterprise system and service architectures in distributed, net-centric environments.
• Develop solution architectures, technical roadmaps, and design documentation integrating systems across multiple domains.
• Lead stakeholder workshops and technical interchange meetings, translating complex architectures into clear, actionable language.
• Incorporate security and compliance frameworks such as DoD STIGs, RMF, and NIST 800-53 / 171, into design baselines.
• Stay current on technologies such as secure mobility platforms, encryption, mobile device management ( MDM ) , VPN solutions, and CSfC-compliant components.
• Define system-of-systems integration approaches, secure enclave architectures, segmentation strategies, and enterprise-level governance models.

Work with us to transform the future of digital platforms.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience leading or supporting enterprise or mission-system architecture for defense, intelligence, or federal programs
• Experience developing solution architectures and technical roadmaps integrating systems across multiple domains
• Experience producing or governing architecture artifacts such as system views, interface specs, or decision records
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as DoD STIGs, RMF, or NIST 800-53 / 171, infrastructure integration, networking, data flows, and segmentation
• Ability to lead workshops and briefings, coordinate schedules, manage risks, and validate implementation against architecture intent
• Ability to influence technical direction and build consensus
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM or Management field
• CompTIA Security+ CE or INCOSE CSEP Certification

Nice If You Have:

• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale architectures within DoD environments
• Experience designing CSfC-compliant architectures and implementing them in accordance with CSfC requirements and NIAP Protection Profiles
• Knowledge of secure mobility, enterprise security automation, enclave boundary protection, DevSecOps, CI / CD, Jenkins, Terraform, or Ansible
• TS/SCI clearance
• CISSP, CISM, INCOSE ESEP, or ITIL Foundation Certification

Clearance:

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

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.

Solution Architect

The Opportunity:

At a certain point, experience -based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you’ve 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