Senior AI Architecture Leader for Enterprise Solutions

HITEC; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a senior AI Architecture Leader to define enterprise AI patterns, governance, and integration across global technology teams. You will guide AI platforms, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, and model integration while aligning with security and risk controls.

In this role you will partner with CIO architecture, platform engineering, security, and risk to translate rapid AI advances into scalable, governed solutions that accelerate delivery and maximize business

Qualifications

• 15+ years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, software engineering, or distributed systems.
• 8+ years architecting AI/ML, NLP, or advanced analytics solutions.
• 2+ years designing enterprise GenAI, RAG, and agentic AI solutions.
• Strong knowledge of AI/ML concepts including LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, evaluation frameworks, and agent-based architectures.
• Experience with enterprise AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with AI orchestration frameworks, workflow automation, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Understanding of security, governance, privacy, and risk considerations for AI solutions.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive architecture decisions in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Creates solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritizes functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog.
• Contributes to architecture roadmap across Business, Application, Data, and Technology domains.
• Clarifies architecture and provides design options to resolve impediments.
• Leads design of complex architectures and conducts proofs of concept to ensure flexible, modular solutions.
• Educates team on technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices.
• Supports selecting technology stacks and preferred products for solutions.
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure non-functional requirements like security and performance are met.
• AI Architecture Strategy & Governance: define enterprise patterns, reference architectures, and governance models.
• Agentic AI & Intelligent Automation: patterns for agents, orchestration, memory, tool invocation, and human oversight.
• Drive standards for deterministic, probabilistic, and hybrid automation models.

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

Tools

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Azure OpenAI

SageMaker

Bedrock

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a senior AI Architecture Leader to define enterprise AI patterns, governance, and integration across global technology teams. You will guide AI platforms, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, and model integration while aligning with security and risk controls.

In this role you will partner with CIO architecture, platform engineering, security, and risk to translate rapid AI advances into scalable, governed solutions that accelerate delivery and maximize business