Senior Architect

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.
We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap.

• This role is responsible for defining the architectural vision and technology solutions that support business products and services. As applications, sensitive data, and data volumes grow, the role drives scalable, secure, and efficient architectures that enable effective data management, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• The role partners closely with stakeholders, technology teams, and service providers to evaluate architectural decisions, guide technology investments, and maintain enterprise architecture blueprints, frameworks, and reference models.

Responsibilities:

• Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
• Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
• Define solution architecture and technology strategy for complex business capabilities.
• Develop and maintain architecture roadmaps across Business, Application, Data, and Technology domains.
• Establish architecture standards, frameworks, blueprints, and reference models.
• Lead solution design discussions and provide guidance on complex architectural challenges.
• Ensure platforms and services are scalable, secure, resilient, interoperable, and performant.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering and architecture practices, including APIs, microservices, containerization, automation, and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Define standards for application development, deployment, integration, testing, monitoring, and operational support.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions aligned to business and technology objectives.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise governance, risk, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Guide teams in building reusable, enterprise-scale services and transitioning proofs of concept into production solutions.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience designing enterprise-scale applications, platforms, and data solutions.
• Strong knowledge of cloud, APIs, microservices, and modern architecture patterns.
• Experience developing architecture standards, roadmaps, and governance practices.
• Knowledge of security, resiliency, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience with data management, governance, and enterprise integration.
• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and observability practices.
• Architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF) and/or cloud certifications.
• Experience leading enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Previous people leadership or team management experience.
• Master's degree in a related field.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering

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