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!
Position Summary:
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.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Architecture direction and support for organizations in Global Operations Technology, Shared Solutions, and Client Data Platforms
- Working across teams to ensure visibility to ongoing and upcoming deliverables, strategies, and tactical approaches
- Mapping out plans for horizontal components that can be leveraged throughout GOTSSCDP
- Analyzing new technology and determining best fit for the bank
- Helping define the direction of GOTSSCDP architecture for the next decade
- Deliver high quality architecture solutions for large multi-generational programs spanning one or more business domains to support organizational missions
- Adhere to and help create enterprise principles and standards based on industry best practices
- Work on multiple projects utilizing waterfall and agile methodologies to provide target-state solutions that best fit the business requirements and align to enterprise goals
- Create and maintain the target application architecture and blueprints along with strategic roadmaps
- Maintain reference architecture and defines shared application components, platforms, interfaces, and development tools
- 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)
Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
- Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
- Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
- Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
- Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
- People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
- Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
- Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
- Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in developing technology solutions, of which 5+ years in Architecture
- Academic education in Technology/Engineering disciplines, or equivalent experience
- Proficient in defining solutions to solve large scale, complex business problems with high resiliency, scalability, performance, and concurrency requirements
- Proficient in researching and understanding new technology solutions and present essential comparisons, pros/cons, and target use cases
- Adept at IT operations, Agile Methodology, Software Development Lifecycle, and Systems Architectures
- Proficient in collaborating with business and technical resources to understand and develop solutions that meet business requirements, translating strategy and objectives when necessary
- Be a thought-leader
- Be open minded and inclusive seeking diverse opinions
- Proficient in leading discussions in a matrix environment focusing on team and organizational success
- Proficient in representing architecture in various architecture forums within the enterprise
- Proficient in communicating with impact (written and verbal) and influence decisions across LOB and technology
Desired Qualifications:
- Background in public cloud design and implementation (AWS/Azure).
- Experience with Terraform (infrastructure as code)
- Experience with AI concepts regarding agentic, deterministic and model based learning
- Hands on prototyping based on AI-assisted agents (CoPilot, Claude, Opus)
- Background in Global Operations, Shared Services, Data, Analytics, or Solution Architecture domains.
- Experience with regulatory, risk, and compliance-driven initiatives.
- Familiarity with enterprise tools such as JIRA
- Software design and development experience in modern programming languages
- Self-driven, innovative and pushes for high-quality measurable outcomes
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
