Solutions Architect, Lead
About the role
The Solutions Architect, Lead role is responsible for defining, designing, and leading the implementation of enterprise-wide solutions for complex systems. This includes analyzing the current application and data landscape, identifying opportunities for modernization and optimization, and architecting scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions. The role involves providing technical leadership to engineering teams, guiding development, integration, and deployment of a large, distributed data system. Additionally, the Solutions Architect, Lead partners 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.
Responsibilities
- Analyze the current application and data landscape, identify opportunities for modernization and optimization, and architect scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
- Provide technical leadership to engineering teams, guiding development, integration, and deployment of a large, distributed data system.
- 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.
- Lead technical discovery and landscape analysis of existing systems, applications, and data flows to inform solution design.
- Architect end-to-end enterprise solutions, including integration patterns, data pipelines, and cloud deployments.
- 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.
- Develop cloud-ready solutions with an emphasis on Azure services, scalability, observability, and automation.
- 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
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, system design, or solution architecture
- 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 solution architecture and cloud-based deployments
- Experience performing technical discovery and delivering solution documentation
- Ability to lead technical teams and make architectural decisions
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Nice if you have:
- Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services
- Experience with enterprise data systems, data pipelines, and distributed architectures
- Experience with microservices, containerization, and DevSecOps practices
- Experience with event-driven architectures or complex system integrations
- Possession of strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Master’s degree
- Azure Architect or Cloud Certification
Skills
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms like Azure
- Expertise in SQL and relational database management
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, or Scala
- Experience with enterprise-level data systems and architectures
- Knowledge of microservices, containerization, and DevSecOps practices
- Experience with event-driven architectures or complex system integrations
- Ability to lead and mentor technical teams
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Benefits
At Booz Allen, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your total well-being. This includes 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.
Pay
The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD).