Cloud Computing Application Architect

The Opportunity:  

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 Cloud Computing Application Architect. You’ve evolved your skills into strategy through a long path of software development accomplishments and the curiosity to understand how all of the pieces of an IT ecosystem fit together. Are you ready to use your combination of knowledge, skill, and experience to take on the toughest challenges for our Navy clients?

As a Cloud Computing Application Architect on our team, you’ll translate your customer’s IT needs and future goals into a plan by crafting architecture solutions for our client and managing implementation. Through your leadership, we’ll help transform the way our clients use technology, including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems. 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. Work with us and build the future of technology in the cloud for the better.

Join us. The world can’t wait. 

You Have: 

• 8+ years of experience with developing technology solutions, including operations, engineering, networking engineering, infrastructure, database architecture, or applications development

• 8+ years of experience with architecture and engineering with a major cloud service provider, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle

• Experience with architecting and deploying cloud solutions within the government, including DoD spaces

• Experience with managing technical implementation, integration, and configuration projects, including development of project plans and system architectures, and updating compliance documentation

• Knowledge of a modern programming language, including Python, Java, C, C++, or C#

• Knowledge of containers and CI/CD pipelines

• Ability to work in a customer-facing or public speaking role

• Ability to develop architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric, and global

• Secret clearance

• Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have: 

• Knowledge of Microservice architectures, including Cloud Native stacks, such as Kubernetes or OpenShift, or Cloud centric design using AWS Lambda functions

• Knowledge of developing an enterprise level CI/CD pipeline that delivers products from development to production

• AWS Solution Architecture Certificates or comparable architecture certificates within Azure or GCP

• Security+ Certification

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 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.

Salary at Booz Allen 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 $84,600.00 to $193,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.

• If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you’ll periodically work from a Booz Allen or client site facility.
• If this position is listed as onsite, you’ll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.

EEO Commitment

We’re an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that empowers our people to fearlessly drive change – no matter their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.