Senior Storage Architect: Enterprise Storage & DR Lead

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

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Storage Architect to lead the architecture, strategy, and lifecycle management of enterprise storage services including File, Block, Object storage and data protection. You will drive architecture decisions across multiple infrastructure domains and collaborate with Product and Vendor teams.

Responsibilities include shaping the storage roadmap, standardizing blueprints, and ensuring security and resiliency across platforms, with a focus on scalability and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage engineering, or storage architecture.
• 5+ years of experience 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 and recovery architectures.
• Experience developing technology roadmaps and strategic infrastructure plans.
• Experience producing architecture documentation, blueprints, and design standards.
• Proven ability to lead complex infrastructure architecture initiatives across multiple teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Creates the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions across business, operations, and technology.
• Contributes to architecture roadmap across defined domains to support product roadmap and best practices.
• Clarifies architecture and provides solution options to remove impediments.
• Leads design of complex architectures and validates through proofs of concepts.
• Educates team on technology practices and standardization strategies.
• Supports selecting technology stacks and preferred products.
• Performs design and code reviews to meet non-functional requirements such as security and scalability.
• Leads enterprise midrange storage services architecture and governance.
• Defines future-state architectures and transition plans for storage and data protection.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Architecture

Result Orientation

Solution Design

Technical Strategy Development

Data Management

Collaboration

DevOps Practices

Risk Management

Presentation Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

NetApp ONTAP

Dell PowerMax

Hitachi HCP

NetApp StorageGRID

Cohesity

NetBackup

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Storage Architect to lead the architecture, strategy, and lifecycle management of enterprise storage services including File, Block, Object storage and data protection. You will drive architecture decisions across multiple infrastructure domains and collaborate with Product and Vendor teams.

Responsibilities include shaping the storage roadmap, standardizing blueprints, and ensuring security and resiliency across platforms, with a focus on scalability and