Senior Platform Database Engineer - API-Driven, Multi-Cloud

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 152,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a Senior/Lead Database Engineer to design, engineer, and evolve enterprise‑grade database platforms. You will lead scalable, resilient, API‑driven services that integrate with enterprise infrastructure and governance, spanning MongoDB, Redis, and graph technologies.

The role operates at the intersection of database, platform, and cloud architecture, with a focus on automation, SRE practices, and strong collaboration with security and governance

Qualifications

• 7+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer or working in a similar function
• Define and own the target architecture and engineering strategy for modern database platforms across the enterprise
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for document (MongoDB), in‑memory (Redis), graph/knowledge graph platforms
• Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging database technologies aligned to enterprise needs (e.g., AI/GraphRAG, real‑time processing, fraud/KYC use cases)
• Ensure architecture aligns with hybrid, multi‑cloud, and sovereignty considerations
• Lead the creation of API‑driven, self‑service database platforms that abstract complexity from application teams
• Define and implement, service catalogs, golden deployment patterns, standardized provisioning workflows, reusable automation frameworks
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and platform‑as‑a‑product principles
• Ensure the platform delivers, consistent developer experience, rapid provisioning, standardized configurations, built‑in governance and controls
• Architect database services for enterprise‑grade resilience, including multi‑region/multi‑site high availability, failover and disaster recovery strategies, backup/restore frameworks
• Lead performance engineering, including sharding and partitioning strategies, caching patterns (e.g., Redis integration), workload isolation and scaling models
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs and reliability benchmarks
• Introduce proactive capacity planning and performance optimization models
• Ensure deep integration with core infrastructure layers network (segmentation, routing, load balancing), compute (VM, bare metal, container orchestration), storage (block, file, object; performance tiers)
• Partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to optimize deployment models, standardize connectivity and security patterns, enable Kubernetes/operator‑based database management
• Drive consistency across hybrid and multi‑cloud deployments

Responsibilities

• Serves as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes and contributes to the technology strategy for end‑to‑end engineering solutions and provides feedback to the architecture teams
• Translates business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
• Participates in various steering committees for technical and infrastructure service domains
• Leads the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose
• Mentors and guides team members to ensure system design technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
• We are seeking a Senior / Lead Database Engineer to lead the design, engineering, and evolution of enterprise‑grade modern database platforms. This role combines deep technical expertise with platform leadership, responsible for delivering scalable, resilient, API‑driven database services that integrate seamlessly with enterprise infrastructure and control ecosystems.

Skills

MongoDB

Redis

Graph databases

Platform engineering

Hybrid/multi-cloud

Tools

GraphDB

Neo4j

Stardog

Job description

Bank of America in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a Senior/Lead Database Engineer to design, engineer, and evolve enterprise‑grade database platforms. You will lead scalable, resilient, API‑driven services that integrate with enterprise infrastructure and governance, spanning MongoDB, Redis, and graph technologies.

The role operates at the intersection of database, platform, and cloud architecture, with a focus on automation, SRE practices, and strong collaboration with security and governance