Cloud Foundation Solutions Lead Strategist

Bank of America

Plano (TX)

On-site

USD 122,000 - 200,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive

Benefits

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Lead Solution Strategist to define and lead the engineering approach for complex features, delivering significant business outcomes and end-to-end solution delivery. The role connects architecture, engineering, product, controls, operations and cloud provider teams to design secure hybrid-cloud capabilities and an enterprise-ready roadmap.

The successful candidate will drive a technology strategy, ensure compliance with standards, promote modern Agile delivery

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.

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