Senior Architect, Enterprise Networking & Zero Trust

Koitecc Solutions; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 141,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive eligible

Benefits eligible

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking an Senior Architect - External Networks to define strategic architecture for perimeter services, external connectivity, and modern DMZ environments.

The role emphasizes Zero Trust, cloud-native networking, and scalable, observable solutions across internet, partner, and third-party ecosystems. You will collaborate with engineering, cybersecurity, and product teams to balance security with business agility.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in network engineering, network security, infrastructure architecture, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale network and security architectures.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a senior or lead architect for complex, cross-functional technology initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain architecture strategies and roadmaps for perimeter security, internet-facing workloads, partner and third-party connectivity, API exposure, remote access, DMZ modernization, and cloud ingress and egress.
• Create and govern target-state architectures, reference architectures, reusable design patterns, technology standards, and non-functional requirements.
• Lead the architecture of secure, resilient, scalable, and observable solutions for internet, partner, third-party, cloud, and hybrid connectivity.
• Advance Zero Trust capabilities, including least privilege, continuous verification, identity-aware access, segmentation, micro-segmentation, and secure service-to-service communication.

Skills

Enterprise network architecture

Zero Trust

Cloud networking

Security architectures

Leadership by influence

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Master's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Service mesh

Kubernetes

Job description

Bank of America is seeking an Senior Architect - External Networks to define strategic architecture for perimeter services, external connectivity, and modern DMZ environments.

The role emphasizes Zero Trust, cloud-native networking, and scalable, observable solutions across internet, partner, and third-party ecosystems. You will collaborate with engineering, cybersecurity, and product teams to balance security with business agility.