Defense Solutions Architect
Booz Allen Hamilton23 hours ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical solution development and architecture visioning during capture, shaping, and pre-RFP phases.
- Translate customer mission needs into actionable solution concepts and win themes across digital, cyber, autonomy, AI/ML, and infrastructure domains.
- Produce technical volumes, solution narratives, architecture diagrams, compliance matrices, and other proposal artifacts.
- Evaluate competitor approaches, teaming strategies, and price-to-win considerations.
- Partner with capture, pricing, industry, technology, and account teams on end-to-end solutions, basis-of-estimate inputs, and bills of materials.
- Support proposal reviews, verbal presentation preparation, and high-priority defense pursuits.
- Apply defense acquisition knowledge to align solutions with appropriate contracting approaches.
- Stay current on defense technology and venture ecosystems and build reusable solution assets.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in solution architecture, systems engineering, or product design.
- Experience developing technical solutions in areas such as autonomous vehicles including UUVs or UAVs, 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.
- Knowledge of the defense industry and U.S. government acquisition process.
- Ability to author technical volumes, solution narratives, and written proposal artifacts.
- Ability to support DoD or IC clients, including Army, Navy, or Marine Corps missions.
- Ability to collaborate across capture, pricing, partner, and account leadership under deadlines.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a STEM field.
- Preferred qualifications include competitive defense capture leadership, multi-domain solution architecture, rapid prototyping and high-speed acquisition knowledge, multi-domain operations and joint warfighting knowledge, an existing Secret clearance, a master's degree, AWS or Azure Solutions Architect Certification, and CISSP, Security+, or DoD 8570 IAT or IAM Certification.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and other total well-being programs.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for the applicable benefit programs.
- The role may require up to 25% travel and work at Booz Allen or customer facilities depending on the listed work model.
- Applicants selected will undergo a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for classified information access.
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).