Senior AI Architect - Client Servicing & Payments

Bank of America; South Dakota; On-site; USD 141,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a senior architect to lead design and delivery of next-generation, AI-driven agentic solutions across our Client Servicing and Money Movement portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of business transformation, advanced AI, and modern engineering, and is critical to driving intelligent automation, enhancing client experience, and reducing operational friction.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, strong architectural leadership, and a proven

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering and architecture with AI/ML focus.
• Proven enterprise-scale solutions in regulated environments.
• Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, orchestration frameworks and agentic architectures.
• Strong understanding of payments, transfers and related processes.
• Experience designing AI-driven workflow automation and digital assistants.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture vision and backlog to enable technology roadmap.
• Contribute to architecture roadmap for domains: Business, Application, Data, Technology.
• Clarify architecture, assist with system design, and provide options.
• Lead design of complex architectures and champion flexible, modular solutions.
• Educate teams on best practices and technology standards.
• Support technology stack decisions and tool selections.
• Perform design and code reviews for non-functional requirements.

Skills

Hands-on technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Architecture

Result orientation

Agile practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

LangChain / LangGraph

Market-ready LLMs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral)

LLM & Agent fundamentals

Vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Azure AI Search)

Chunking strategies & embeddings

Hybrid search

Evaluation of retrieval quality

Java

Python

ReactJS / .NET

Spring Boot

Microservices architecture

Cloud platforms AWS / Azure

Containers OpenShift

MuleSoft

RESTful APIs

Kafka / MQ

Camunda BPM/Workflow

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a senior architect to lead design and delivery of next-generation, AI-driven agentic solutions across our Client Servicing and Money Movement portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of business transformation, advanced AI, and modern engineering, and is critical to driving intelligent automation, enhancing client experience, and reducing operational friction.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, strong architectural leadership, and a proven