Artificial Intelligence Solutions Architect, Lead

Serve as the technical authority for solutions and an active contributor to development as an AI Solutions Architect. Design effective AI solution architecture or strategy utilizing various AI technologies and methods to address clients' business problems and needs, while complying with organizational strategies, business goals, and key ethical considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design Foundry architecture, ontology, integration patterns, and technical standards, partnering closely with engineers to implement complex features.
• Lead technical design reviews, develop proof of concepts, and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture.
• Analyze the current application and data landscape to identify opportunities for modernization and optimization.
• Architect scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions to inform solution design.
• Partner with product owners, engineers, cybersecurity specialists, and cloud teams to ensure solutions meet business and technical objectives, adhere to best practices, and leverage cloud capabilities effectively.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams, guiding development, integration, and deployment of large, distributed data systems.
• Architect end-to-end enterprise solutions, including integration patterns, data pipelines, and cloud deployments.
• Manage and guide engineering teams in implementing services, APIs, and database integrations using programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, or Scala.
• Design and optimize relational databases, including SQL modeling, query tuning, and data migration strategies.
• Establish and enforce solution design standards, architectural guidelines, and secure-by-design principles.
• Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, and trade-off analyses to support informed decision-making.
• Provide ongoing technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across multiple teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements, constraints, and success criteria.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with SQL development and relational database design.
• 5+ years of experience with programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, or .NET.
• Experience with enterprise data systems, data pipelines, and distributed architecture.
• Experience with enterprise solution architecture and cloud-based deployments.
• Experience with microservices, containerization, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience performing technical discovery and delivering solution documentation.
• Ability to lead technical teams, make and own architectural decisions.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of experience in software engineering, system design, solution architecture, and complex system integrations, or 11+ years of experience in these areas in lieu of a degree.

Qualifications

• Possession of strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, including with Flag or General Officers and members of the Senior Executive Service.
• TS/SCI clearance.
• Master’s degree.
• AWS Cloud Certifications.

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
• Recognition awards program for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of company 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.

Pay

Salary 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).

Schedule

This posting will close within 90 days from the posting date.

Work models include:

• Remote: Generally expected to have cameras on during meetings. May still require occasional in-person work at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: Expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and role needs. May also require work from or visits to a customer facility.
• Onsite: Work primarily performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, collaborating directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.