Application / Platform Architect

Bank of America•Jacksonville, FL

19h•Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! Position Summary: We are seeking an experienced Application / Platform Architect to lead the end‑to‑end architecture, design, and evolution of our application and data platforms. In this role, you will define technical roadmaps, lead modernization efforts, and ensure our platforms are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with business goals. This role requires a seasoned technical expert with deep full‑stack engineering experience, strong systems thinking, and hands-on architectural leadership across application development, cloud‑native technologies, data platforms, containers, and DevOps automation. You will partner closely with engineering teams, product owners, and senior technology leaders to set the strategic direction of the platform and guide developers in building high‑quality solutions. This role is ideal for a strategic technical leader who can bridge hands-on engineering excellence with platform‑level architectural thinking. You will shape the future of our application ecosystem and ensure our platforms remain modern, reliable, and innovation‑ready. Job Description: This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices. Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts, determining the primary systems/sub-systems and their interfaces, and assisting with end-to-end solution design. Job expectations include defining non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by working with stakeholders and service providers.

Requirements

Technical Expertise Deep hands-on expertise in full‑stack engineering : Frontend: React, Remix, NodeJS Backend: Python, FastAPI, Flask APIs: GraphQL, REST Strong experience designing and delivering microservices architectures .
Mastery in containers and orchestration : Docker, Podman, Kubernetes.
Solid understanding of Linux environments.
Strong data and DB architecture experience: PostgreSQL RDBMS fundamentals Distributed data concepts (Hadoop)
Architectural Skills Experience designing large‑scale distributed systems.
Expertise in cloud‑native patterns, event-driven systems, and service mesh (plus).
Ability to create architecture diagrams, roadmaps, and technical documentation.
Strong knowledge of engineering best practices: testing strategies, coding standards, security controls.
Leadership & Soft Skills Ability to lead engineering teams through architectural and design decisions.
Strong communication skills to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non‑technical partners.
Ability to influence stakeholders across product, engineering, infra, and security.
Proven track record of driving architectural transformation across the SDLC.
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

Nice To Haves

10+ years of experience in application development and platform engineering.
5+ years in an architect
Experience with platform‑as‑a‑product mindset.
Knowledge of cloud concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure).
Experience establishing enterprise architectural governance.

Responsibilities

Platform & Application Architecture Define the overarching architecture, standards, patterns, and best practices for application and platform development.
Architect end‑to‑end solutions using React/Remix/NodeJS, Python (FastAPI, Flask), GraphQL, and microservices.
Design scalable containerized and cloud‑native solutions using Docker/Podman and Kubernetes.
Establish architectural blueprints, reference architectures, and reusable frameworks.
Technical Leadership Guide engineering teams through complex solution design decisions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.
Conduct deep architecture reviews of applications, microservices, APIs, and data flows.
Provide mentorship to developers, senior engineers, and application teams.
Platform Engineering Architect, optimize, and evolve the internal application platform to support: UI frameworks API gateways Microservice orchestration Observability and logging frameworks CI/CD pipelines Ensure the platform supports high performance, multi‑tenancy, and scalability.
Data & Integration Architecture Architect solutions that manage structured/unstructured data leveraging PostgreSQL, RDBMS concepts, and distributed data tools (e.g., Hadoop).
Define API, integration, and GraphQL schemas ensuring consistency and maintainability.
Work closely with data engineering teams to ensure metadata, lineage, and quality are integrated into platform services.
Application Modernization Analyze existing applications and platforms to identify modernization opportunities.
Lead refactoring, migration to microservices, and cloud‑native transformations.
Establish principles for reusability, modularity, and standardized components.
DevOps, Automation & Infrastructure Define and evolve platform CI/CD standards using Git‑based workflows.
Collaborate with Infra teams on automation using Ansible, Shell scripting, and container orchestration patterns.
Ensure platform security, reliability, performance tuning, and governance compliance.
Collaboration & Strategy Partner with product owners to translate business requirements into technology roadmaps.
Provide architectural input on major initiatives, platform investments, and technical debt reduction.
Engage with cross‑functional teams to ensure solution alignment across the organization.
Consults with the business and operations to identify and understand challenges and opportunities to improve the use and effectiveness of technology, find creative solutions through knowledge of the domain, practical experiments, and Proof of Concepts, and aligns the solution intent and architectural vision to an evolving backlog of technology change
Works with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features
Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements and ensures architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt easily
Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design for the development teams to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
Utilizes the defined best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs and suggests improvements to best practices and templates