Cloud Data Platform Architect: Channels & Analytics

Hobbsnews; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 156,500 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the Channels Data Platforms modernization, guiding the move from on‑premises and mainframe to cloud-native architectures using Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake. You will shape the multi‑year roadmap, ensure security and compliance, and mentor teams across data, product, and technology domains.

The role requires deep experience with modern data tooling, microservices, and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data/software engineering with 8+ years in enterprise data platforms or large distributed architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate solution intent and architectural vision across domains.
• Build a multi-year modernization roadmap for Channels Data Platforms including mainframe and Hadoop.
• Lead architecture, modernization, and transformation to cloud-native platforms.
• Provide end-to-end architectural oversight for Payment Tracker, including UI, API and data models.
• Mentor engineers and elevate engineering excellence across Channels Technology.
• Drive reusable accelerators, templates, and migration playbooks.

Skills

Cloud modernization

Azure Databricks

Snowflake

Kafka/Event Hubs

SQL

Python

Java/Scala

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Architecture leadership

Security/Compliance

Communication to exec

Tools

Azure (ADLS Gen2)

Databricks/Delta

Informatica

Hadoop

Mainframe Z Series

Kafka

Git

Azure DevOps/Jenkins

Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the Channels Data Platforms modernization, guiding the move from on‑premises and mainframe to cloud-native architectures using Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake. You will shape the multi‑year roadmap, ensure security and compliance, and mentor teams across data, product, and technology domains.

The role requires deep experience with modern data tooling, microservices, and CI/CD.