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Solutions Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton

McLean, VAFull-time$99–225K/yrPosted 4w agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$99–225K/yr
Location
McLean, VA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearance, requiredBachelor's degree, required

Job overview

The Solutions Architect will translate customer IT needs and future goals into complex IT solutions supporting Army cloud migration, technology integration, and legacy-system modernization. The role also mentors developers, shapes digital-solutions business strategy, and identifies growth opportunities. The candidate will bring extensive experience in enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, security controls, and technical delivery, along with a bachelor's degree and Secret clearance.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Complex IT Solution Design, requiredSoftware Application Integration, requiredEnterprise Solution Design, requiredSecurity Controls, requiredCloud Computing Platforms, requiredTechnical Artifact Authoring, requiredModern System Architecture, requiredMicroservices, requiredBusiness Development, requiredEnterprise Systems Architecture, requiredGovernment Proposal Alignment, requiredEnterprise Software Modernization, requiredTechnical Delivery Management, requiredSoftware Development Collaboration, nice to haveProject Leadership, nice to haveTask Leadership, nice to haveTeam Leadership, nice to haveAgile Methods, nice to haveArchitectural Tradeoff Evaluation, nice to haveService-Based Application Design, nice to haveFull-Stack Development, nice to haveSaaS, nice to havePaaS, nice to haveIaaS, nice to haveVerbal Communication, nice to haveWritten Communication, nice to haveListening, nice to have

Qualifications

8+ Years Complex IT Design, required5+ Years Enterprise Solutions, required5+ Years Cloud Platforms, requiredSecret Clearance, requiredBachelor's Degree, requiredMaster's Degree, nice to haveCloud Certification, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Solutions ArchitectThe 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 client's toughest challenges?

As a solution architect on our team, you'll translate your customer’s IT needs and future goals into a plan by crafting complex IT solutions. Through your leadership, we’ll help transform the way the Army 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 the DoD for the better.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

  • 8+ years of experience in the analysis and design of complex IT solutions, including integrating or interfacing between multiple software applications, processing platforms, and software products
  • 5+ years of experience designing large-scale enterprise solutions, integrating disparate technologies, and implementing security controls
  • 5+ years of experience working with cloud computing platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Experience authoring technical artifacts, including logical and physical network diagrams, technical specifications, and system installation procedures, to articulate complex concepts to non-technical audiences
  • Experience implementing solutions using modern system architecture principles, including microservices
  • Experience in business development, including architecting enterprise systems and aligning them with government evaluation criteria and statements of work
  • Experience modernizing enterprise software delivery in support of digital transformation
  • Experience managing technical delivery, including forward-leaning modernization efforts in the DoD, federal government, or commercial entities
  • Secret clearance
  • Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

  • Experience working closely with software development teams
  • Experience with project, task, and team leadership
  • Experience designing, modifying, developing, writing, and implementing software programming applications using Agile methods
  • Experience evaluating architectural tradeoffs and designing robust service-based software applications for scalable enterprise production use
  • Experience with full-stack development in a professional environment for enterprise production capabilities
  • Knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS models
  • Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Possession of excellent listening skills
  • Master’s degree
  • AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Certification

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

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 projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

  • Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
  • Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
  • Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

How this job compares

Set against the 8,806 open Solutions Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$99–225K/yr
  • Virginia median$141–219K/yr428 salary ranges
  • US median$139–247K/yr7,833 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $162K, is 10% below the Virginia median midpoint ($181K) — in the lowest quarter of Solutions Architect salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 479 open Solutions Architect jobs in Virginia and 8,806 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Solutions Architect postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (7,703 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,774 of the 8,806 open Solutions Architect jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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