The Opportunity:
Booz Allen is seeking a Lead Salesforce Solution Architect to support a large-scale modernization effort focused on legacy HR and personnel applications. In this role, you will architect the target CRM/SaaS solution for modernization of legacy HR systems, with a primary focus on Salesforce, Public Sector Solutions (PSS), and Omnistudio, and integration with adjacent enterprise services.
You will define application architecture, platform patterns, security model, reuse strategy, technical standards, and migration paths to enable phased modernization of legacy applications into a secure, scalable, and maintainable target environment. You will work across business, product, engineering, integration, and cybersecurity teams to assess legacy applications, rationalize target-state architecture, and shape the technical blueprint and migration roadmap for modernization at enterprise scale.
The ideal candidate brings strong experience in Salesforce development and architecture using PSS and Omnistudio, including configuration versus code decisions, security model design, packaging strategy, platform limits, integration patterns, data migration, and large-scale modernization. This role requires sound architectural judgment, strong communication skills, and the ability to operate effectively in a complex legacy environment with multiple systems, dependencies, and stakeholders.
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Work You’ll Do
Architect the target SaaS CRM solution for modernization of legacy HR and personnel applications using Salesforce platform features, PSS, Omnistudio, and adjacent enterprise services.
Define target-state application architecture, platform patterns, security model, reuse strategy, technical standards, and migration approaches for modernization of legacy applications.
Lead architecture decisions across Salesforce-based capabilities and related enterprise services, balancing speed, maintainability, platform constraints, security, and long-term scalability.
Assess legacy applications, workflows, data dependencies, and technical debt to help define modernization paths, including refactoring, re-platforming, consolidation, retirement, and reuse.
Make and defend sound configuration versus custom code decisions based on business need, platform capabilities, maintainability, upgradeability, and delivery risk.
Define secure and scalable design patterns for case management, workflows, data exchange, integration, user experience, and operational support.
Establish and follow Salesforce architecture standards for security, access model, data model, packaging, release strategy, environment strategy, and platform governance
Define and document integration patterns between Salesforce and adjacent enterprise systems and services, including APIs, middleware, identity and access services, event-driven interfaces, and batch integrations, as appropriate.
Support development of modernization outputs, including application architecture recommendations, target technical blueprints, migration sequencing, and implementation roadmaps.
Collaborate with engineering, DevSecOps, data, integration, and cybersecurity teams to ensure architecture supports secure delivery, testing, traceability, and sustainment.
Lead or support discovery sessions with mission and technical stakeholders to translate business needs into future-state solution designs and actionable implementation approaches.
Review solution artifacts, user stories, technical designs, and implementation approaches to ensure alignment with architectural intent and modernization goals.
Identify technical and program risks early, recommend mitigation strategies, and drive issues through resolution.
Communicate architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and modernization strategy clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Mentor junior Salesforce developers and solution engineers.
You Have:
8+ years of experience with enterprise application delivery, software architecture, or application modernization programs
5+ years of experience with Salesforce platform architecture, solution design, configuration, and customization in enterprise environments
Experience with Salesforce Public Sector Solutions (PSS) and Omnistudio in complex enterprise implementations
Experience successfully delivering complex projects
Knowledge of Salesforce, PSS, and OmniStudio architecture, including configuration versus custom code decisions, security model design, packaging strategy, platform limits, integration patterns, data migration and large-scale modernization approaches
Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API-led connectivity, data dependencies, and technical blueprinting needed to modernize legacy applications into a broader SaaS CRM environment
Ability to architect the target SaaS CRM solution for modernization of legacy HR applications, including defining application architecture, platform patterns, security model, reuse strategy, technical standards, and migration paths across Salesforce PSS and adjacent enterprise services, and lead discovery sessions, translate business requirements into future-state solution designs, and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to mission and delivery stakeholders
Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree
Salesforce Certified Application Architect Certification
Nice If You Have:
Experience supporting modernization of HR, personnel, case management, or other mission-support enterprise applications in federal or DoD environments
Experience contributing to application rationalization, technical blueprinting, migration sequencing, or modernization roadmap development across a portfolio of legacy applications
Experience documenting business processes and system designs using workflow diagrams, UML, sequence diagrams, or similar artifacts to support future-state architecture and delivery planning
Experience in public sector digital transformation initiatives
Knowledge of human-centered discovery methods, reusable API patterns, governed data migration, and phased modernization delivery in enterprise transformation efforts
Ability to serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior client and delivery stakeholders and guide teams through architectural risk, dependency, and solution-quality decisions
Possession of strong customer relationship management and communication skills
Salesforce certifications such as System Architect, Omnistudio Consultant, Omnistudio Developer, Platform Developer 2, Public Sector Solutions Accredited Professional, or other relevant platform certifications
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 $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (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
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.
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.