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Booz Allen Hamilton · 1 day ago

Enterprise & Business Architecture Director

McLean, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$163K/yr - $303K/yr

15+ years exp

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a highly experienced leader to head the company’s Enterprise and Business Architecture function. The role involves defining the architectural vision and ensuring alignment of technology investments with the company's strategy and client priorities.

ConsultingCyber SecurityIT InfrastructureManagement ConsultingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

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 companywide 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

Qualification

Enterprise architectureCloud architectureData architectureBusiness architectureCapability modelingIntegration patternsCloud-native architecturesDevSecOpsStrategic influenceCommunication skillsLeadership

Required

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, DevSecOps, 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