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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.
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 aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices. Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts, determining the primary systems/sub-systems and their interfaces, and assisting with end-to-end solution design. Job expectations include defining non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by working with stakeholders and service providers.
We are seeking a Architect with strong hands-on experience implementing and integrating AI platforms in alignment with approved enterprise architectures and AI control standards. This role focuses on execution and delivery, translating architectural designs and control requirements defined by Senior Architects into deployed, reliable solutions.
The position emphasizes deploying vendor AI platforms in an on‑prem OpenShift environment, integrating AI capabilities across the enterprise ecosystem, and applying Responsible AI and governance standards without owning policy or assessment responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
- Consults with the business and operations to identify and understand challenges and opportunities to improve the use and effectiveness of technology, find creative solutions through knowledge of the domain, practical experiments, and Proof of Concepts, and aligns the solution intent and architectural vision to an evolving backlog of technology change
- Works with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features
- Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
- Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements and ensures architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt easily
- Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
- Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design for the development teams to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
- Utilizes the defined best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs and suggests improvements to best practices and templates
- AI Architecture Implementation & Enablement
- Implement and refine AI and data architecture solutions
- Deploy, configure, and operate vendor AI platforms and services within on‑prem OpenShift clusters.
- Support implementation of Generative AI solutions including LLM services, RAG pipelines, agents, and supporting data services.
- Apply standardized architectural patterns for scalability, reliability, and security.
- Application of AI Controls & Responsible AI Standards
- Implement predefined AI control standards related to security, privacy, access management, logging, and monitoring.
- Embed established & new Responsible AI mechanisms such as content filtering, prompt controls, telemetry, and explainability tooling.
- Ensure deployed solutions align with enterprise requirements for auditability, lineage, and approved usage patterns.
- Systems Integration & Delivery
- Build, configure, and test integrations between AI platforms and enterprise systems including data platforms, identity services, monitoring tools, and other AI capabilities.
- Develop and maintain APIs, data pipelines, and event-driven integrations to support end‑to‑end AI solutions.
- Document technical implementations, deployment configurations, and operational dependencies.
- Operational Support & Continuous Improvement
- Support production readiness activities including validation, performance testing, observability configuration, and operational handoff.
- Troubleshoot deployment, runtime, and integration issues across AI platform components.
- Provide implementation feedback and identify technical gaps or improvement opportunities to Senior Architects.
Required Qualifications:
- 4–7 years of experience in data engineering, AI/ML platforms, platform engineering, or architecture-adjacent roles.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes or OpenShift platforms.
- Experience implementing system integrations using APIs, data pipelines, and event-based architectures.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML and Generative AI platforms, components, and deployment patterns.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL; familiarity with containerized workloads.
- Understanding of enterprise security, identity, logging, and operational requirements.
- Strong execution, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
- Hands-on AI platform implementation and integration
- Kubernetes / OpenShift deployment expertise
- Application of architectural standards and AI controls
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience deploying AI or data platforms in on‑prem OpenShift environments, with focus on LangSmith or Galileo AI
- Familiarity with vector databases, RAG architectures, and LLM orchestration frameworks.
- Exposure to MLOps or LLMOps tools and workflows.
- Experience working in large-scale or regulated enterprise environments.
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
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
Pay Transparency details
US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)
Pay and benefits information
Pay range
$105,600.00 - $165,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.
Discretionary incentive eligible
This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.
Benefits
This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.
