Enterprise & Business Architecture Director (McLean)

Job Number: R0230217

Enterprise & Business Architecture Director

The Opportunity:

Our organization is seeking a highly experienced leader to head the company's Chief Information Office (CIO) 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 Chief Information Office (CIO) operating model. Additionally, you will act as a strategic advisor to C-suite, CIO 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 CIO 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 to participate in 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 $162,800.00 to $303,000.00 (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.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the 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.