Defense Solutions Architect

About this role

Defense Solutions 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 of 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 across maritime and ground missions?

This is a role for a technologist who wants to shape solutions for the nation's most critical national defense challenges: partnering with capture teams on competitive pursuits and supporting high-speed acquisitions where the timeline is compressed and the technical solution has to be right for the mission, delivered fast. You'll translate complex mission needs into credible, differentiated, and executable technical architectures across a portfolio of opportunities rather than from inside a single program of record. With your guidance, we’ll help transform the way defense customers use technology including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems.

What You'll Do • Lead technical solution development and architecture visioning during capture, shaping, and pre-RFP phases.

• Translate customer mission needs into actionable, technically sound solution concepts and win themes across digital, cyber, autonomy, AI/ML, and infrastructure domains.

• Produce and refine solution narratives, technical volumes, architecture diagrams, compliance matrices, and supporting artifacts for bids.

• Evaluate competitor approaches, teaming strategies, and price-to-win considerations to ensure solutions are differentiated and winnable.

• Surge across pursuits, flexing to the highest-priority opportunities as capture demands shift.

• Partner closely with Capture Leads, Pricing, and industry and technology partners to shape end-to-end solutions, basis-of-estimate (BOE) inputs, and bills of materials.

• Bring hands-on depth in one or more focus areas: Networks, Digital Infrastructure, Undersea Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence, DevSecOps, and Software Engineering.

• Contribute to proposal development, including technical volumes, solution narratives, color-team reviews, and oral presentation preparation.

• Apply knowledge of defense acquisition pathways, such as Adaptive Acquisition Framework, Commercial Solutions Openings, Middle-Tier Acquisition, Other Transaction Authorities, or SBIR/STTR to align solutions to the right contracting approach.

• Stay current on defense technology trends and the venture and partner ecosystem, with a focus on injecting COTS capabilities into government proposals, and build reusable solution assets that scale across pursuits and accounts.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have: • 8+ years of experience in solution architecture or systems engineering

• Experience developing technical solutions and architectures in one or more of the following: Undersea Autonomy, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), DevSecOps, Software Engineering, Digital Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Networks, or Enterprise IT

• Experience supporting defense capture, proposals, or technical solutioning in a government or government-contracting environment

• 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 the U.S. Government acquisition process

• Ability to collaborate across capture, pricing, partner, and account leadership to deliver integrated solutions under deadline

• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or STEM Field or 5+ years of military experience in a technical engineering field in the military in lieu of a degree

Nice If You Have: • Experience as a solution architect or technical lead on competitive defense captures

• Experience architecting solutions across more than one of the focus areas above

• Knowledge of rapid prototyping and high-speed acquisition environments

• Knowledge of multi-domain operations and joint warfighting concepts

• Secret clearance

• Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) or a technical field

• AWS or Azure Solutions Architect certification and CISSP, Security+ or DoD 8570 IAT or IAM certification

Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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 proje

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