Lead Artificial Intelligence Solutions Architect

Job Number: R0245811

Artificial Intelligence Solutions Architect, Lead
The Opportunity:

Serve as the technical authority for solutions and be an active contributor to development as an AI Solutions Architect. Design effective AI solution architecture or strategy utilizing approaches of various AI technologies and met hods to address clients' business problems and needs, while complying with the organization's strategies and business goals, and key ethical considerations. Design Foundry architecture, ontology, integration patterns, and technical standards, while partnering closely with engineers to implement complex features.

Lead technical design reviews, develop proof of concepts, resolve complex technical challenges, and ensure the solution is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture. Analyze the current application and data landscape, identify opportunities for modernization and optimization, and architect scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions to inform solution design. Partner with product owners, engineers, cybersecurity spe cia lists, 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 a large, distributed data system. 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.

You Have:

• 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 Dev Sec Ops  practices
• Experience performing technical discovery and delivering solution documentation
• Ability to lead technical teams, and 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 sof tware engineering, system design, solution architecture, and complex system integrations, or 11+ years of experience in software engineering, system design, solution architecture, and complex system integrations in lieu of degree

Nice If You Have:

• Possession of strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder e nga gement skills, including with Flag or General Officers and members of the Senior Executive Service
• TS/SCI clearance
• Master's degree
• AWS Cloud Certification s

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…