Senior Exchange Online Architect - Hybrid & M365 Messaging

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

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits eligible

Discretionary annual incentive

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Microsoft Exchange Online Senior Architect to lead end-to-end architecture, migration, and operational design of enterprise messaging platforms. This role drives the target operating environment, client resiliency, and non-functional requirements across hybrid and multi-geo deployments.

The ideal candidate brings deep Exchange Server (on-premises) and Exchange Online experience, leads large migrations (10k+ mailboxes), and partners with identity, security,

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise messaging or collaboration architecture
• 4+ years hands-on experience with Exchange Online
• Deep expertise in: Exchange Server 2016/2019 (hybrid and coexistence)
• Exchange Online mail flow and transport
• Exchange Edge services
• Autodiscover, DNS, and SMTP architecture
• Email hygiene systems (DLP, Malware, Spoofing, Phishing, Tagging)
• Strong understanding of: Microsoft 365 identity integration
• Hybrid connectivity and network dependencies
• Client protocols (MAPI, REST, ActiveSync)
• Proven experience delivering large-scale migrations (10k+ mailboxes preferred)
• Throttling, concurrency, and migration optimization
• End-user impact management and communications

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)
• Design and own Exchange Online architectures, including Hybrid Exchange, Coexistence and staged migration models, Multi-geo tenant design, High availability, disaster recovery
• Define standards for: Mailbox sizing and quotas, Shared mailboxes, resource mailboxes, and service accounts, SMTP relay and application integrations
• Transport rules and mail flow architecture

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

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a Microsoft Exchange Online Senior Architect to lead end-to-end architecture, migration, and operational design of enterprise messaging platforms. This role drives the target operating environment, client resiliency, and non-functional requirements across hybrid and multi-geo deployments.

The ideal candidate brings deep Exchange Server (on-premises) and Exchange Online experience, leads large migrations (10k+ mailboxes), and partners with identity, security,