Aviation Solution Architect, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton • McLean, VA

4d

About The Position

Aviation Solution Architect, Lead 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 aviation? As a solution architect on our team, you'll translate your customer’s IT needs and future goals into a plan by crafting architecture products, design specifications, statements of work, requirements, and scripts. Through your leadership, we’ll help transform the way our client uses technology, including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems. And, what do you do next in a career where you’ve reached this level? You mentor the next set of developers to help them grow into tomorrow’s solutions architects. As a technical leader, you’ll shape the digital solutions business and identify opportunities for growth. Work with us and build the future of technology in our nation’s airspace for the better. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with software development and modernization efforts, including forward-leaning technology, such as cloud, automation platforms, enterprise data, Artificial Intelligence, and open-source tech stacks
• 7+ years of experience architecting secure, high performance, and high availability systems, including on missions of national importance
• Experience serving as a solution architect integrating service-based technologies into cohesive technical solutions that directly address client challenges
• Experience developing and delivering tailored, complex presentations to clients that illustrate solutions to client technical and business focused problems
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
• Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

• Experience with FAA systems and processes and National Airspace System (NAS) operations
• Experience establishing frameworks for systems modernization efforts using integrated DevSecOps toolchains and test-driven development practices
• Experience working in Agile at scale in environments with multiple, product-centric Agile teams
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP underlying services
• Possession of excellent communication, presentation, and organization skills to tailor messages to both highly technical and non-technical audiences
• Multiple Cloud Architecture, Software Development, or DevSecOps Certifications

Responsibilities

• crafting architecture products
• design specifications
• statements of work
• requirements
• scripts
• mentor the next set of developers to help them grow into tomorrow’s solutions architects
• shape the digital solutions business and identify opportunities for growth

Benefits

• health
• life
• disability
• financial
• retirement benefits
• paid leave
• professional development
• tuition assistance
• work-life programs
• dependent care
• recognition awards program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level