Architect - Platform Strategy - Migration and Modernization

Bank of America

Pennington (NJ)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

27 hours ago

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Job summary

Bank of America is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define architectural vision aligned with enterprise strategy across data, cloud, and legacy domains. You will partner with senior architects to shape roadmaps, drive standards, and translate direction into concrete designs for delivery teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration, adaptability, and intellectual curiosity, with visibility across multiple technology domains and stakeholder groups.

Qualifications

5+ years of relevant technology experience including architecture & development
Strong ability to understand architectural concepts and design logic
Strong relationship management, collaboration, facilitation, and influence skills
Experience driving technology standards and adoption across teams
Demonstrated ability to learn new technology domains across multiple architectural areas
Highly motivated, curious, and able to partner with senior architects to roadmaps
Ability to translate architectural direction into practical solutions

Responsibilities

Consults with business and operations to identify challenges and opportunities, aligns solution intent with architectural vision
Plans and prioritizes architecture-focused backlog items with product management to enable business epics/features
Performs design and code reviews to ensure non-functional requirements (security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, reliability) are met
Leads rapid shaping of high-level architecture with evolving business requirements, ensuring modular, flexible design
Educates team members on technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices
Clarifies architecture and assists with system design for development teams to support implementation
Uses defined templates and documentation to create architectural designs and suggests improvements to practices

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

NET

Java

Tools

OpenShift

Bitbucket

Jenkins

NET

Java

Job description

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.

Job Description

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.

This role will partner closely with senior architects across areas such as Data Architecture, Cloud Adoption, Legacy Migration, Application Security, and Shared Services to help define technology roadmaps, establish consistent architectural approaches, and support evolving priorities across the organization.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong technical foundation and architecture experience. We are looking for someone who is highly motivated, adaptable, intellectually curious, and comfortable working across different technology areas. The individual should be able to partner with senior architects, facilitate change, challenge established ways of working when appropriate, and help translate architectural direction into practical standards and solutions.

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

Required Qualifications

5+ years of relevant technology experience, including experience working with architecture, application development, cloud, infrastructure, or related technology disciplines
Strong technical foundation with the ability to understand architectural concepts and develop logical design skills
Strong relationship management, collaboration, facilitation, and influence skills
Experience helping drive technology standards, consistency, or adoption across teams
Demonstrated ability to learn new technology domains and work effectively across multiple architectural areas
Highly motivated and intellectually curious, with the ability to challenge existing approaches and help drive change
Ability to partner with senior architects to develop technology roadmaps and translate architectural direction into practical solutions

Desired Qualifications

Experience with cloud architecture, cloud adoption, migration, or application modernization
Background in application development, including .NET and/or Java
Experience with containerized application development and technologies such as OpenShift, Bitbucket, and Jenkins
Experience supporting enterprise technology standards and driving consistency across applications or platforms
Familiarity with agile development environments
Exposure to one or more architecture domains such as cloud, data, application modernization, application security, shared services, or legacy migration

Skills