Mainframe Senior Storage Architect

Bank of America; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Mainframe Storage Architect to define the architectural vision and strategy for a large, dynamic storage environment. You will design for resiliency and align with the business roadmap.

You will lead complex architectural efforts across mainframe storage disk, engineering, and virtual tape, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure, high‑performance solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading and managing mainframe storage initiatives.
• Expertise in storage architecture including encryption, SAN, and DASD.
• Strong ability to design for resiliency and performance at scale.

Responsibilities

• Works with business, operations and tech to craft solution intent and architectural vision.
• Contributes to architecture roadmap across domains (Business, Application, Data, Technology).
• Clarifies architecture, supports design, and offers solution options.
• Leads complex architecture design and develops flexible, modular solutions.
• Educates team on technology practices and standardization strategies.
• Supports technology stack selection and reviews non-functional requirements.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Architecture

Result Orientation

Solution Design

Technical Strategy Development

Application Development

Collaboration

Data Management

DevOps Practices

Risk Management

Agile Practices

Automation

Influence

Solution Delivery Process

Test Engineering

Job description

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap.

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 creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
• Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any 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 (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
• Mainframe Storage Architect (Individual Contributor)
• Duties to include collaborating with others, designing, developing, and setting strategy for mainframe storage architecture in a large, diverse, dynamic, and exciting storage environment. Responsibilities will span mainframe storage disk, engineering, and virtual tape.

Required Qualifications:

• 10 + Years experience leading and managing multiple competing and dynamic deliverables with Mainframe Storage
• 10 + Years experience and skills to include:
  • Storage Architecture
    • Encryption
    • Fiber protocols and configuration
    • FICON
    • HCD/IOCP
    • I/O Performance (DASD, Switches, Virtual Tape)
    • Refreshes/upgrades (inclusive of Brocade directors/switches, Hitachi DASD, and IBM Virtual Tape (TS7700s))
    • Storage Area Network (SAN) replication design and configuration
  • Capacity (inclusive of network/switches)
  • Cost benefit analysis/consolidation/reduction
  • Design and Planning of Data Center Moves
    • Inclusive of data center role swaps (prod to contingency/disaster recovery and back)
    • Disaster Recovery Exercises
• Ability to lead and set direction under minimal supervision
• Ability to exercise judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criterion for obtaining results

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40