Software Architect, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton6 hours ago
Base Salary
$113k - $257k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve architectures for scalable agent orchestration, physics-informed analytics, and distributed mission systems.
- Create and maintain architecture products, interface specifications, and system design documentation.
- Translate mission and stakeholder needs into system requirements and architecture direction.
- Guide engineering teams through design decisions, code reviews, and implementation.
- Evaluate technical tradeoffs for real-time, event-driven, streaming, and multi-source data integration systems.
- Mentor engineering teams and shape technical direction across multidisciplinary groups.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, or integrating software systems, including leading architecture efforts for distributed or mission-focused platforms.
- Experience with Java, C++, or Python and secure coding and integration practices.
- Experience with real-time or event-driven data processing, streaming, or multi-source data integration patterns.
- Experience guiding engineering teams in Agile development environments.
- TS/SCI clearance is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology, or 10+ years of software engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
- Preferred experience includes agent-based or distributed decision systems, physics-informed analytics, signal processing, multi-INT data fusion, streaming frameworks, secure cloud environments, containerized workloads, infrastructure automation, and AI-assisted mission capabilities.
- Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Alexandria, Virginia, with frequent work at a Booz Allen facility and possible customer-facility visits.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and access to benefits for eligible full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- The role is expected to close within 90 days of the posting date.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).