
IT Solutions Architect, Lead
Lexington, MAFull-time$113–257K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a lead IT solutions architect to guide clients through IT modernization and cloud infrastructure work supporting national security. The role leads technical teams and partners with stakeholders to design, build, test, and deploy cloud solutions, including container applications, within a DevOps framework. The architect works with cloud platforms and engineers to modernize legacy systems or create new solutions.
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IT Solutions Architect, LeadThe Opportunity: Everyone is trying to “harness the cloud”, but not everyone knows how. As an experienced cloud computing infrastructure architect, you know how to take advantage of cloud capabilities. Here, you’ll oversee our team of experienced professionals and use cutting-edge enterprise cloud platforms to guide your clients as they modernize their IT infrastructure and meet their most challenging missions. We’re looking for someone like you to help support national security through IT modernization efforts.
You’ll collaborate closely with fellow cloud architects and engineers specializing in Office 365, Azure, AWS, and GCP to design, define, develop, test, and debug cloud solution components. You’ll have the chance to broaden your experience within a DevOps framework to create and manage container apps and use products like Kubernetes to further the mission. With access to our internal cloud infrastructures, you’ll have the space and time to explore different ways of solving our clients’ problems, and you’ll partner with stakeholders and lead your team to deliver the right technical solutions. Whether modernizing legacy computing platforms and applications or creating new ones from scratch, you’ll have the latest tech and brightest teammates at your fingertips.
Grow your skills at the leading edge of innovation.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
You Have:
- 8+ years of experience with the design, deployment, and management of both physical and cloud-based network environments for federal customers
- Experience leading complex IT modernization projects as a key technical leader involved in defining, architecting, building, and deploying solutions in modern IT architectures
- Experience leading projects at enterprise-scale with innovation through self-organized initiatives, emerging tools, COTS products, and industry best practices
- Experience leading technical teams, including cloud professionals, through solutions development and testing
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in technology, or 10+ years of experience in technology in lieu of a degree
- Ability to obtain an 8570 IAT Level II or III Certification within 6 months of hire date
Nice If You Have:
- Experience working in a collaborative and customer delivery environment
- Experience with technical project management, including planning, scoping, and resourcing complex cloud solutioning projects
- Knowledge of networking, security groups, and policy management for cloud resources across multiple operating systems, including Linux and Windows
- Knowledge of DoW accreditation processes
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and DevSecOps for designing, developing, and delivering using appropriate automation techniques or tools
- Ability to work through challenging security requirements and maintain compliance
- Secret clearance
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 projected compensation range for this position is $112,900.00 to $257,000.00 (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 3,118 open Cloud Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$113–257K/yr
- Massachusetts median$154–208K/yr76 salary ranges
- US median$147–239K/yr2,845 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $185K, is close to the Massachusetts median midpoint ($181K) — in the middle half of Cloud Architect salary ranges in Massachusetts.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 83 open Cloud Architect jobs in Massachusetts and 3,118 across the US. 13% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- Amazon32 open
- Oracle12 open
- Akamai Technologies, Inc.5 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Cloud Architect postings that state a minimum ask for 9 years at the median (2,681 postings).
- Education
- 855 of the 3,118 open Cloud Architect jobs (27%) 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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