Chief Engineer & Architect, Enterprise App & DB Services

National Black MBA Association; Chandler, Northern (AZ, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking an experienced Chief Engineer / Architect to lead CTI infrastructure strategy, design, and delivery across enterprise services. You will partner with engineering, operations, and application teams to build resilient, scalable infrastructure that meets enterprise standards.

The role demands executive communication, cost-aware decision making, and guidance across AWS/Azure environments, with Terraform automation and governance responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Leadership Skills
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• 10+ years experience providing end-to-end architecture, design guidance, and governance for large-scale strategic initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex technical challenges
• Experience translating product roadmaps and business goals into architectural solutions
• Experience managing staffing, financial planning, vendor engagement, risk management, compliance, and governance processes
• Proven experience leading infrastructure production support organizations
• Strong stakeholder management across executive, business, and technical teams
• 10+ years experience designing, deploying, and managing highly resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure platforms
• Proven expertise in architecting highly available network solutions
• Relational and NoSQL database technologies including Oracle, MongoDB, CockroachDB, PostgreSQL
• Middleware and integration platforms including Apache, JBoss, MuleSoft, Kafka, Liberty, WebLogic
• Enterprise data networking, connectivity, and distributed systems architecture
• Experience leading large-scale enterprise technology initiatives in architecture, engineering, development, deployment
• Cloud-native solutions across AWS and Azure environments
• Infrastructure as Code via Terraform-based automation
• Architectural diagrams and documentation using Microsoft Visio

Responsibilities

• 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 architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and best practices including standardized templates
• Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve 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 (security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, reliability)
• The Chief Engineer provides end-to-end technical leadership for complex initiatives, mitigating risks and accelerating delivery outcomes; may participate in operational reviews, incident analysis, and strategic planning for platform reliability and operational excellence
• This position requires a strong combination of technical depth, strategic thinking, executive communication skills, and the ability to influence and lead across a large-scale enterprise environment

Skills

Leadership Skills

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Architectural Design

Cloud Architecture

Terraform IaC

Tools

Apache

JBoss

MuleSoft

Kafka

WebLogic

Oracle

MongoDB

CockroachDB

PostgreSQL

AWS

Azure

Job description

Bank of America is seeking an experienced Chief Engineer / Architect to lead CTI infrastructure strategy, design, and delivery across enterprise services. You will partner with engineering, operations, and application teams to build resilient, scalable infrastructure that meets enterprise standards.

The role demands executive communication, cost-aware decision making, and guidance across AWS/Azure environments, with Terraform automation and governance responsibilities.