Cloud Foundation Services Lead Solution Strategist

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 122,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Lead Solution Strategist to own the strategic translation of cloud foundational needs into an enterprise roadmap and operating model. The role bridges architecture, engineering, product, controls, and cloud provider teams to define secure hybrid-cloud capabilities and adoption plans.

You will guide the technology strategy, ensure compliance with standards, promote modern Agile delivery, and coach teams on best practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in solution strategy, cloud architecture, or related leadership.
• Strong hybrid cloud, IAM, and security credentials understanding.
• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and related tooling.
• Deep infrastructure and networking expertise.

Responsibilities

• Define technology strategy and ensure alignment with standards.
• Lead CI/CD adoption and tooling decisions across teams.
• Guide design practices for high-performance code and scalable solutions.
• Deliver end-to-end features across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Translate hybrid-cloud requirements into a clear roadmap and narrative.

Skills

Automation

Influence

Result Orientation

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Application Development

Architecture

Business Acumen

Risk Management

Solution Design

Agile Practices

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration

Data Management

Solution Delivery Process

Tools

Terraform Enterprise

CI/CD

Kubernetes platforms

Service mesh

Image factory concepts

Cloud onboarding

FinOps

Monitoring & Quality Engineering

Job description

Job Description

This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

Cloud Foundational Services

Cloud Foundational Services is intended to remove non-differentiated heavy lifting for cloud service provider verticals by offering common, secure and automated platform capabilities. The Lead Solution Strategist connects this enterprise need to target-state decisions, delivery sequencing and operating-model clarity.

Lead Solution Strategist Role

The Lead Solution Strategist owns the strategic translation of Cloud Foundational Services requirements into an enterprise-ready roadmap, solution narrative and operating model. The role bridges architecture, engineering, product, controls, operations and cloud provider teams to define how secure hybrid-cloud capabilities should be designed, prioritized and adopted.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements
• Translate hybrid-cloud requirements into a clear strategic roadmap, capability model and executive narrative
• Define the strategic roadmap for foundational cloud services across AWS, Azure, GCP, private cloud and Kubernetes environments
• Convert architecture requirements into consumable themes, epics, adoption patterns and decision-ready options for leadership
• Clarify where native cloud services should be used versus where enterprise foundational services should provide consistency
• Drive platform identity and access strategy using bootstrap identity, registration, runtime verification, token exchange and least-privilege credential issuance
• Define reusable automation patterns for onboarding, infrastructure-as-code, image pipelines, service mesh, subscriptions, naming and platform user interfaces
• Prioritize roadmap dependencies across TFE, APEX, Landlord, service mesh, image management, controls automation, QE and FinOps
• Integrate infrastructure, network, and cloud engineering
• Embed security, reliability, and compliance
• Leverage AI to reduce operational toil and improve insights

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in solution strategy, cloud architecture, platform product management, infrastructure modernization or enterprise technology leadership
• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud, workload identity, zero trust, IAM integration, policy deployment, logging/tracing, compliance automation and secure credential flows
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise, CI/CD, Kubernetes platforms, service mesh, image factory concepts, cloud onboarding, FinOps, monitoring and quality engineering
• Deep infrastructure and networking experience
• Experience with control planes and distributed systems
• Experience with state-machine workflow orchestration
• Strong stakeholder and communication skills

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with VM and container image lifecycle platforms
• CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code experience
• Event-driven architecture experience
• Exposure to AI-driven DevOps or automation
• Experience in regulated enterprise environments

Skills

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Solution Delivery Process

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40

Pay Transparency Details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)
Pay and benefits information
Pay range$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 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 our business and the communities we serve.