Lead Database Platform Engineer | API-Driven, Multi-Cloud

Bank of America; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 152,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits eligible

Discretionary incentive plan

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior/Lead Database Engineer to drive the design, engineering, and evolution of enterprise‑grade database platforms. You will own architecture, standards, and APIs across modern data technologies, including MongoDB, Redis, and graph databases, with a focus on resiliency and enterprise integration.

You will lead cross‑functional collaboration across database, platform, cloud, and security teams, delivering scalable, API‑driven services and automation that align with

Qualifications

• 7+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer or working in a similar function
• Define and own the target architecture and engineering strategy for modern database platforms across the enterprise
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for document (MongoDB), in‑memory (Redis), graph/knowledge graph platforms
• Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging database technologies aligned to enterprise needs (e.g., AI/GraphRAG, real‑time processing, fraud/KYC use cases)
• Ensure architecture aligns with hybrid, multi‑cloud, and sovereignty considerations
• Lead the creation of API‑driven, self‑service database platforms that abstract complexity from application teams
• Define and implement service catalogs, golden deployment patterns, standardized provisioning workflows, reusable automation frameworks
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and platform‑as‑a‑product principles
• Ensure the platform delivers consistent developer experience, rapid provisioning, standardized configurations, built‑in governance and controls
• Architect database services for resilience (multi‑region/site HA, failover, DR, backup/restore)
• Lead performance engineering (sharding, caching, workload isolation)
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs and reliability benchmarks
• Proactive capacity planning and performance optimization
• Integrate with core infra layers (network, compute, storage)
• Partner with infra and cloud teams to optimize deployment models and security patterns
• Drive consistency across hybrid and multi‑cloud deployments

Responsibilities

• Serves as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes and contributes to the technology strategy for end‑to‑end engineering solutions
• Translates business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards
• Participates in steering committees for technical and infrastructure service domains
• Leads the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose
• Mentors and guides team members to ensure system design technology solutions comply with enterprise standards
• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve blockers
• Senior / Lead Database Engineer to lead design, engineering, and evolution of enterprise‑grade modern database platforms

Skills

Adaptability

Business Acumen

Production Support

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Automation

Influence

Innovative Thinking

Solution Delivery Process

Technical Strategy Development

MongoDB

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Tools

MongoDB

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a Senior/Lead Database Engineer to drive the design, engineering, and evolution of enterprise‑grade database platforms. You will own architecture, standards, and APIs across modern data technologies, including MongoDB, Redis, and graph databases, with a focus on resiliency and enterprise integration.

You will lead cross‑functional collaboration across database, platform, cloud, and security teams, delivering scalable, API‑driven services and automation that align with