Solution Architect

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

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Solution Architect to lead and shape enterprise architectures for national security missions, including CSfC. You will design, document, and govern system solutions across domains while guiding stakeholders through complex tradeoffs.

You will apply security and compliance frameworks such as RMF and NIST, drive roadmaps, and coordinate workshops to ensure architecture alignment with mission goals.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in STEM or Management.
• CompTIA Security+ CE or INCOSE CSEP

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution roadmaps

Security frameworks

RMF/NIST

Stakeholder workshops

Leadership

Secret clearance

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM or Management

CompTIA Security+ CE or INCOSE CSEP

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Job Number: R0247998

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 issues, you’re a solutions architect. You’ve evolved your skills into strategy through a long path of software 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 Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC)?

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
• Secret clearance
• 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 our 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.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

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.