Senior AI Security & Platform Engineering Leader

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

Job summary

Bank of America in Charlotte seeks a highly technical Senior Engineer to lead AI security, platform modernization, and developer productivity initiatives across Digital Technology. The role focuses on secure AI adoption, engineering modernization, and rapid release capabilities to address evolving security threats.

You will provide technical leadership, architect end-to-end solutions, and collaborate across Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Development teams to improve delivery speed

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, and platform engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, application architecture, and enterprise platform design.
• Proven expertise in AI/LLM consumption patterns, AI platform integration, and secure AI application development.
• Deep understanding of AI security risks, vulnerability management, and remediation practices.
• Experience leading vulnerability remediation programs, including analysis, prioritization, and mitigation of AI-related security findings (e.g., Mythos scans).
• Experience developing remediation roadmaps and driving enterprise-wide security modernization initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of application security, secure coding practices, OWASP, authentication, authorization, encryption, and API security.
• Hands-on experience with Java ecosystem modernization, including JDK upgrades, dependency management, and framework modernization.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, DevSecOps, and release engineering capabilities.
• Strong cloud, containerization, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation experience.
• Ability to provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and drive adoption of engineering standards and best practices.
• Strong problem-solving, architecture, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance – e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements
• Lead identification, triage, prioritization, and remediation of AI-related vulnerabilities.
• Build developer productivity solutions that accelerate secure software delivery.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives, including JDK upgrades, framework upgrades, and technical debt reduction.
• Enable rapid-release capabilities for critical vulnerability remediation and security response.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Development teams to establish enterprise-wide engineering standards.
• Develop automation that reduces remediation lead times and improves engineering efficiency.
• Champion secure AI adoption and establish best practices for AI-powered software development.

Skills

AI security

Technical leadership

CI/CD

Cloud

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

Architecture

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Team mentoring

Collaboration

Data management

Tools

JDK upgrades

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps tooling

Kubernetes

Infrastructure automation

Security testing tools

Job description

Bank of America in Charlotte seeks a highly technical Senior Engineer to lead AI security, platform modernization, and developer productivity initiatives across Digital Technology. The role focuses on secure AI adoption, engineering modernization, and rapid release capabilities to address evolving security threats.

You will provide technical leadership, architect end-to-end solutions, and collaborate across Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Development teams to improve delivery speed