Senior Cloud Architect — AWS Platform & Compliance

Bank of America; Charlotte (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a senior cloud architect to lead the cloud and AWS architecture strategy for a regulated digital platform. You will drive architectural vision, ensure scalability, security, and compliance, and partner with Risk, Legal, and InfoSec to align technology decisions with regulatory requirements.

This transformational role focuses on building a compliant, cost-effective cloud foundation, guiding engineers and architects, and shaping platform patterns across on-prem and cloud

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and leading enterprise-scale cloud architectures with deep hands-on AWS knowledge.
• Strong background delivering technology solutions in highly regulated financial services environments.
• Experience architecting platforms meeting data residency, encryption, and access control requirements.
• Leadership in driving cloud adoption as a transformation rather than point migrations.

Responsibilities

• Defines architectural vision and solution aligned to enterprise architecture strategy and platform choices.
• Plans and prioritizes architecture runway to enable business epics/features.
• Performs design and code reviews ensuring non-functional requirements (security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, reliability).
• Leads rapid shaping of high level architecture with evolving business requirements.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Architecture

Result Orientation

Solution Design

Technical Strategy Development

Communication

Tools

AWS

Ping Identity

Akamai

Glassbox

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a senior cloud architect to lead the cloud and AWS architecture strategy for a regulated digital platform. You will drive architectural vision, ensure scalability, security, and compliance, and partner with Risk, Legal, and InfoSec to align technology decisions with regulatory requirements.

This transformational role focuses on building a compliant, cost-effective cloud foundation, guiding engineers and architects, and shaping platform patterns across on-prem and cloud