Patch and Repave Senior Engineering Manager

Bank of America

Charlotte (NC)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for its Charlotte, NC office. This role involves leading a high-performing team to deliver a secure, scalable platform for automated patching. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering and leading teams, with a strong focus on cloud-native architecture and distributed systems. Responsibilities include developing technology strategy, managing solution delivery, and fostering an inclusive environment. Join us and drive innovation in technology delivery.

Qualifications

8–12+ years in software/platform engineering with 8+ years leading engineering teams.
Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale platforms.
Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and distributed systems fundamentals.

Responsibilities

Builds and manages teams to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices.
Facilitates performance and career development through reviews and coaching.
Manages solution delivery and application performance in production.

Skills

Influence

Risk Management

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Analytical Thinking

Application Development

Collaboration

Result Orientation

Solution Delivery Process

Agile Practices

Architecture

Automation

Data Management

DevOps Practices

Tools

React

Angular

Java Core

MongoDB

Redis

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. 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.

Overview

The Senior Engineering Manager – Patch & Repave Platform will lead the design, architecture, and delivery of a new enterprise solution that enables automated patching of deployed compute infrastructure and repaving of strategic immutable container and VM offerings. This role builds and leads a high‑performing engineering team responsible for delivering a secure, scalable, policy‑driven platform that modernizes patching practices, reduces vulnerability exposure, and improves reliability through immutable infrastructure patterns.

This is a critical leadership role at the intersection of platform engineering, security, SRE/operations, and developer experience, requiring strong execution, technical depth, and stakeholder alignment across a complex enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

Builds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectives
Facilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skills
Manages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are met
Manages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organization
Contributes to the technology strategy for their technical domain
Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders

Managerial Responsibilities

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, elevate and debate issues.
People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Required Qualifications

8–12+ years in software/platform engineering with 8+ years leading engineering teams (hiring, performance, delivery accountability)
Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale platforms (internal developer platforms, infra automation, lifecycle management systems)
Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and distributed systems fundamentals (reliability, scalability, fault tolerance)
Demonstrated experience with CI/CD, release engineering, and automated quality gates (test automation, progressive delivery patterns)
Working knowledge of immutable infrastructure concepts (golden images, artifact promotion, replace vs. mutate) and/or platform lifecycle automation
Hands‑on familiarity with modern infrastructure ecosystems:
- Containers/Kubernetes and/or VM platforms
- Technologies:
  - React/Angular - Java Core - MongoDB/REDIS
- Infrastructure as Code and configuration management approaches
- Observability (metrics/logs/tracing) and operational tooling
Strong collaboration skills across Security, SRE, Infrastructure, and Application stakeholders; ability to align diverse requirements into a coherent roadmap
Excellent communication—can translate between executive outcomes, product requirements, and engineering delivery

Desired Qualifications

Experience building patch orchestration systems, vulnerability remediation automation, or compliance reporting platforms
Experience operating platforms with SLOs and partnering with SRE on operational readiness and on‑call rotations
Familiarity with:
- Image pipelines (Packer-like approaches), artifact registries, and supply‑chain security patterns
- Progressive delivery tooling and safe rollout strategies (rings/canaries/blue‑green)
- Experience with hybrid/on‑prem environments in addition to public cloud
- Familiarity with event‑driven architecture (pub/sub), streaming, or change‑data‑capture patterns for maintaining metadata freshness.
- Experience with UX‑heavy internal products and partnering with design teams to deliver polished workflow experiences.
- Strong background in platform security and compliance automation (audit trails, policy‑as‑code concepts, evidence generation).
- Experience building scalable and reliable Tier 1 systems