Senior Enterprise Storage Architect

Bank of America; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 141,000 - 205,000; Full time

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Job summary

Bank of America seeks a Senior Storage Architect to lead the architecture, strategy, and lifecycle management of enterprise midrange storage services including File, Block, Object Storage and Data Protection. This role ensures alignment with enterprise Tech strategies, security standards, resiliency goals, and cloud roadmaps.

You will influence multi-domain roadmaps, drive best practices, and provide governance for critical storage initiatives across teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in CS/IS/Engineering.
• 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure, storage engineering, or storage architecture.
• 5+ years designing and architecting enterprise storage solutions.
• Deep expertise in enterprise storage and backup platforms such as NetApp ONTAP, Dell PowerMax, Hitachi HCP, NetApp StorageGRID, Cohesity, NetBackup.
• Strong understanding of NAS protocols (NFS, SMB), SAN technologies (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP), Object Storage (S3) and backup architectures.

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 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)
• Serve as the lead architect for enterprise midrange storage services, including File/NAS Storage, Block Storage, Object Storage and Data Protection and Backup Services
• Create and maintain storage blueprints, reference architectures, technology standards, strategic roadmaps and product lifecycle strategies
• Define future-state architectures and transition plans for storage and data protection services.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, market trends, and vendor roadmaps to identify innovation opportunities and strategic investments.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Technical Product Managers to define service capabilities, service offerings, operational requirements, and customer adoption strategies.
• Collaborate with Vendor Managers and strategic technology partners to influence product direction, review roadmaps, and drive feature adoption.
• Provide architecture governance and design reviews for strategic projects and application onboarding efforts.
• Support capacity planning, scalability planning, performance architecture, data protection strategy, cyber resiliency, and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Author and present architecture recommendations to senior leadership, engineering teams, risk organizations, and project stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Architecture

Result Orientation

Solution Design

Technical Strategy Development

Application Development

Collaboration

Data Management

DevOps Practices

Risk Management

Other

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

NetApp ONTAP

Dell PowerMax

Hitachi HCP

NetApp StorageGRID

Cohesity

NetBackup

NFS

SMB

Fibre Channel

iSCSI

NVMe/TCP

S3

Job description

Bank of America seeks a Senior Storage Architect to lead the architecture, strategy, and lifecycle management of enterprise midrange storage services including File, Block, Object Storage and Data Protection. This role ensures alignment with enterprise Tech strategies, security standards, resiliency goals, and cloud roadmaps.

You will influence multi-domain roadmaps, drive best practices, and provide governance for critical storage initiatives across teams and vendors.