Defense Solutions Architect
Booz Allen Hamilton1 month ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical solution development and architecture visioning during capture, shaping, and pre-RFP phases.
- Translate mission needs into technical solution concepts and win themes across digital, cyber, autonomy, AI/ML, and infrastructure domains.
- Develop technical volumes, solution narratives, architecture diagrams, compliance matrices, proposal artifacts, and oral presentation materials.
- Evaluate competitor approaches, teaming strategies, and price-to-win considerations.
- Partner with capture, pricing, account, industry, and technology teams on integrated solutions, basis-of-estimate inputs, and bills of materials.
- Apply defense acquisition pathways to align solutions with appropriate contracting approaches.
- Track defense technology and partner ecosystem trends and build reusable solution assets across pursuits and accounts.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in solution architecture or systems engineering.
- Experience developing architectures in areas including undersea autonomy, MBSE, DevSecOps, software engineering, digital infrastructure, AI, machine learning, networks, or enterprise IT.
- Experience supporting defense capture, proposals, or technical solutioning in government or government-contracting environments.
- Experience authoring technical volumes, solution narratives, or written proposal artifacts.
- Experience supporting DoD or IC clients, including Army, Navy, or Marine Corps missions.
- Knowledge of the defense industry and U.S. Government acquisition process.
- Ability to collaborate across capture, pricing, partner, and account leadership under deadline.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a STEM field, or 5+ years of military experience in a technical engineering field in lieu of a degree.
- Preferred: competitive defense capture leadership, multi-domain architecture experience, rapid prototyping or high-speed acquisition knowledge, multi-domain operations knowledge, a Secret clearance, an MBA or technical master's degree, and AWS or Azure Solutions Architect certification or CISSP, Security+, DoD 8570 IAT, or IAM certification.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis may participate in eligible benefit programs.
- Hybrid work in McLean, Virginia, with frequent work at a Booz Allen facility and possible customer-facility visits.
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).