Defense Solutions Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton • McLean, VA

4d • $99,000 - $225,000 • Remote

About The Position

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 technical solution must be right for the mission and 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, systems engineering, or product design
• Experience developing technical solutions and architectures in autonomous vehicles, including UUVs or UAVs, 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
• Knowledge of the defense industry and the U.S. government acquisition process
• Ability to author technical volumes, solution narratives, or 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 to deliver integrated solutions under deadline
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or a STEM field

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a solution architect or technical lead on competitive defense captures
• Experience architecting solutions across multiple areas
• 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 or a technical field
• AWS or Azure Solutions Architect Certification
• CISSP, Security+, or DoD 8570 IAT or IAM Certification

Responsibilities

• 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 such as networks, digital infrastructure, undersea autonomy, artificial intelligence, DevSecOps, and software engineering.
• Contribute to proposal development, including technical volumes, solution narratives, color-team reviews, and verbal 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.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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