Senior Architect - Platform Strategy - Migration and Modernization

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a senior architect to modernize legacy systems and design technology roadmaps. The role involves defining architectural vision, working across business and technology to drive solutions, and mentoring team members. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in Cloud Migration, Application Modernization, and strong logical design skills.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with strong logical design skills.
• Good relationship management and influence skills.
• Familiarity with agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions.
• Define the target operating environment, ensuring client resiliency.
• Lead design discussions and resolve architectural impediments.

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

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

8+ years of experience

Tools

.NET

Java

OpenShift

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Job description

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Position Summary:

Looking for a senior architect with strong experience in platform modernization. WMT needs an architect to design a roadmap to modernize key legacy systems and technology stacks. Looking for thought leadership in terms of both strategic design and also reduced effort of migration, as well as an eye for consistency of approach across applications with similar technology stacks.

Job Description:

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services

• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates

• Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments

• Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable

• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions

• Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products

• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ yrs experience with strong logical design skills

• Good relationship management and influence skills, experience driving standards adoption.

• Responsible for supporting architectural vision, with various focus in Scalability, Cloud Migration, Application Modernization and domain-driven design.

Desired Qualifications:

Background in .NET and/or Java, experience with container development in OpenShift, Bitbucket, Jenkins.Familiarity with agile environment.

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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101), US - NJ - Pennington - 1500 AMERICAN BLVD - Princeton Place at Hopewell Bldg. 5 (NJ2150) Pay and benefits information Pay range $140,500.00 - $205,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set. Discretionary incentive eligible This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company. Benefits This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.