Architect - Platform Strategy - Migration and Modernization

Bank of America Corporation; South Dakota; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a senior Enterprise Architect to define architectural vision aligned to enterprise strategy, technology choices, and platform standards. You will describe solution intent, evaluate system impacts, and support end-to-end design across domains.

The ideal candidate will lead with senior architects on data, cloud adoption, legacy migration, security, and shared services while translating direction into practical standards and secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technology experience in architecture, development, cloud, or related tech.
• Strong design and architectural concepts understanding.
• Proven collaboration, facilitation, and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Consult with business and operations to identify tech challenges and align with architecture.
• Plan and prioritize architecture backlog to support business epics.
• Review designs to ensure non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability).
• Shape high-level architecture with evolving requirements and ensure modular design.
• Educate teams on best practices and standardization.
• Clarify architecture and propose options to resolve impediments.
• Utilize templates and documentation to craft designs and improve templates.

Skills

Architecture concepts

Logical design

Collaboration

Facilitation

Influence

Technology standards

Cloud adoption

Roadmaps

Technical curiosity

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.

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.

Responsible for supporting architectural vision, with various focus in Scalability, Cloud Migration, Application Modernization and domain-driven design

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 an