Enterprise & Business Architecture Director

The Opportunity:

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 at scale. You 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.

What You'll Do:

• 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.

Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• 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

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.

Identity Statement

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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.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.