Architect - Platform Strategy - Migration and Modernization

Bank of America; South Dakota; On-site; USD 106,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits eligible

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a senior architect to define an architectural vision aligned to the enterprise strategy, with focus on scalability, cloud migration, and application modernization. You will ensure solutions fit the intended operating environment and collaborate with stakeholders to evolve the architecture.

Responsibilities include guiding architecture runway, planning backlog items with product teams, and validating non-functional requirements through design reviews.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant architecture experience.
• Strong logical design and problem solving.
• Excellent relationship management and influencing skills.
• Experience driving architectural standards adoption.

Responsibilities

• Consults with the business and operations to identify challenges and opportunities to improve technology use and align the solution with architectural vision.
• Plans and prioritizes architecture-focused backlog items to enable business epics/features.
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure non-functional requirements are met (security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, reliability).
• Leads rapid shaping of high-level architecture as requirements evolve and ensures architecture is flexible and modular.
• Educates team members on technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices.
• Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design to support implementation.
• Provides solution options to resolve architectural impediments.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Architecture

Result Orientation

Solution Design

Tech Strategy

Application Development

Collaboration

Data Management

DevOps Practices

Risk Management

Agile Practices

Automation

Influence

Delivery Process

Test Engineering

Tools

.NET

Java

OpenShift

Bitbucket

Jenkins

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

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:

• 8+ yrs experience
• Strong logical design skills
• Good relationship management and influence skills
• Experience driving standards adoption.

Desired Qualifications:

• Background in .NET and/or Java
• Experience with container development in OpenShift, Bitbucket, Jenkins
• Familiarity with agile environment.

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 - Pennington - 1500 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 5 (NJ2150)

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 the business and the communities we serve.