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# Solutions Architect

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $99,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PAAS), Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, Google Cloud, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System, Legacy Systems, Microservices
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=dfb8f5bee5ab0d88

## About the Role

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?, * 4+ years of experience working with cloud computing platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

 * Experience designing large-scale enterprise solutions, integrating disparate technologies, and implementing security controls
 * Experience implementing solutions using modern system architecture principles, including microservices
 * Experience modernizing enterprise software delivery in support of digital transformation
 * Top 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, including 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; Top Secret clearance is required.

## Description

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.


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