Enterprise & Business Architecture Director

Job Number: R0230217

Our organization is seeking a highly experienced leader to head the company's Enterprise and Business Architecture function, setting the direction for how technology, data, processes, and platforms come together to enable mission outcomes  will define the architectural vision, build the blueprint for a modern, resilient, and AI-enabled enterprise, and ensure all technology investments align with the company's strategy, client priorities, and Enterprise Technology Services and Solutions (ETSS) operating model.

Additionally, you will act as a strategic advisor to C‑suite, ETSS Leadership Team, Sector CTOs, and Delivery teams, translating complexity into clear options grounded in business impact. Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required.

• Serve as the primary architecture authority for strategic transformation initiatives, cloud modernization, Zero Trust, data platforms, agentic AI integration, and core enterprise systems
• Establish and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, and roadmap that guide Booz Allen's technology evolution.
• Translate business strategy into clear architectural direction that informs prioritization, funding, and portfolio planning across Civil, Defense, and National Security sectors.
• Define the business capabilities, value streams, and end-to-end process models that anchor ETSS planning and investment decisions, and drive harmonization across enterprise services, reducing fragmentation and ensuring reusable, scalable patterns.
• Partner with Tech Excellence and Delivery to ensure demand is shaped against architectural guardrails and company wide standards and build strong relationships with stakeholders to accelerate buy‑in, shape demand, and drive architectural consistency across programs and sectors.
• Lead architecture governance with clear decision rights, design review processes, reference architectures, security‑by‑design patterns, and reusable accelerators, and ensure alignment to enterprise cybersecurity requirements, FedRAMP paths, data governance policies, and AI risk management standards.
• Maintain the company's IT catalog of capabilities and integration patterns to enable consistent delivery and cost transparency.
• Partner with the CTO organization on platform and engineering excellence, ensuring architectures are practical, implementable, and cost‑effective, collaborate with Data and AI leadership to define the data foundation, modern analytics stack, and AI or agentic frameworks that underpin future capabilities, and evaluate emerging technologies and create decision frameworks that guide experimentation, adoption, and retirement.
• Develop a high‑performing team of enterprise, solution, and business architects with a culture of curiosity, technical depth, and mission orientation.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

• 15+ years of experience in architecture, technology strategy, or enterprise transformation within a large, complex, matrixed organization in a highly regulated industry
• Experience leading enterprise architecture at scale, including business architecture, capability modeling, data architecture, cloud architecture, and integration patterns
• Ability to lead and influence modern engineering approaches, including cloud‑native architectures, event‑driven patterns, Zero Trust, data platforms, Dev Sec Ops , agentic AI principles, and enterprise SaaS ecosystems
• Ability to influence at executive levels, simplify complexity, and drive clarity in ambiguous environments
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely and articulate trade‑offs, options, and decisions to senior stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in a technology field

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