Architect - AWS

Bank of America • Jersey City, NJ

1d • $105,600 - $165,000 • Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, this role defines an architectural vision and solution aligned with enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices. The architect describes solution intent and its operating environment, evaluates system impacts, identifies primary systems and interfaces, and supports end-to-end solution design. The role also defines non-functional requirements and the architectural runway for new epics and features, working with stakeholders and service providers to ensure solutions are fit for purpose.

The Cloud Architect (AWS) defines and implements cloud architecture strategy for the HPS platform. The role designs secure, scalable, highly available cloud solutions and establishes standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices. It leads cloud transformation and modernization initiatives, architects Infrastructure as Code solutions, defines DevSecOps and deployment patterns, and promotes cloud-native capabilities. The architect oversees security, resiliency, disaster recovery, observability, and platform governance across development, testing, and production environments. The role partners with application, security, infrastructure, and platform teams to deliver compliant, resilient, and cost-effective solutions, while providing technical leadership and architectural guidance across the HPS portfolio.

The position is based at one of the listed New Jersey locations and is described as first shift, 40 hours per week. Bank of America describes its culture as inclusive and supportive of teammate wellness, and states that it is committed to an in-office culture with role-specific flexibility based on responsibilities and business needs.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or solution architecture, with demonstrated leadership in enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.
• Deep expertise in AWS architecture and services, including VPC, Transit Gateway, EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, Route 53, CloudFront, ELB/ALB/NLB, S3, RDS, Aurora, Secrets Manager, KMS, and CloudWatch.
• Proven experience architecting and implementing Terraform Infrastructure as Code, including reusable modules, platform standards, state management, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, resilient cloud architectures, including disaster recovery, failover, traffic routing, and multi-AZ and multi-region deployment patterns.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud security architecture, including IAM, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, compliance controls, and secure-by-design principles.
• Experience leading application modernization and cloud migration initiatives involving containerization, cloud-native architectures, microservices, and platform standardization.
• Strong experience designing and governing DevSecOps and CI/CD platforms, including automated builds, testing, security scanning, approval gates, deployment automation, and release management.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, including VPC design, load balancing, DNS, private connectivity, security groups, network segmentation, and application connectivity patterns.
• Experience establishing cloud governance frameworks, architectural standards, reference designs, and engineering best practices in regulated environments.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize platforms for reliability, scalability, observability, performance, security, and cost.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across cloud infrastructure, networking, application platforms, deployment pipelines, and production operations.
• Experience working in Agile delivery models while leading multiple concurrent initiatives and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence engineering teams, executives, architects, and business partners.
• Ability to lead architecture reviews, provide technical governance, and make strategic technology recommendations aligned with business objectives.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing and governing container platforms and container image management solutions, including Docker, ECS, EKS, image lifecycle management, and registry strategies.
• Knowledge of multi-region, disaster recovery, and business continuity architectures, including recovery objectives, failover strategies, and resiliency testing.
• Knowledge of advanced deployment and resiliency patterns, including blue/green deployments, canary releases, progressive traffic shifting, and zero-downtime deployment strategies.
• Experience architecting and operating solutions in highly regulated environments, such as financial services, healthcare, or other compliance-driven industries.
• Experience establishing vulnerability management programs, integrating security scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines, and driving remediation strategies with security and application teams.
• Familiarity with application architectures and modernization patterns across Java, Ruby, and .NET technology stacks.
• Experience using automation and scripting technologies such as Python, Bash, or equivalent languages to improve platform operations and engineering efficiency.
• Experience with observability and operational excellence practices, including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and platform health management.
• Familiarity with enterprise cloud governance, platform standardization, shared services, and cloud operating model best practices.
• AWS professional-level certifications, such as Solutions Architect Professional, Security Specialty, or DevOps Engineer Professional, and Terraform certifications.
• Experience leading architecture reviews, mentoring engineering teams, and driving adoption of cloud architecture standards and best practices.
• Strong understanding of cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and performance engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Consult with business and operations teams to identify technology challenges and opportunities, explore solutions through domain knowledge, practical experiments, and proofs of concept, and align solution intent and architectural vision with an evolving technology backlog.
• Work with product management and stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology backlog items that build the architectural runway for business epics and features.
• Perform design and code reviews to verify that non-functional requirements, including security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability, are met.
• Rapidly shape high-level architecture as business requirements emerge, ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable.
• Educate team members on technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices.
• Clarify architecture, assist development teams with system design and implementation, and provide options for resolving architectural impediments.
• Use established best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs, and recommend improvements to those practices and templates.
• Architect, design, and govern secure, scalable, resilient AWS cloud platforms using Terraform and cloud-native services.
• Establish cloud design standards and reference architectures for high availability, disaster recovery, traffic management, failover, and multi-environment deployments.
• Lead implementation of security controls, vulnerability remediation, compliance requirements, and platform hardening in alignment with enterprise policies and regulatory standards.
• Develop and maintain architecture standards, operational runbooks, engineering documentation, and deployment procedures.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across the HPS portfolio and partner with application, security, infrastructure, and platform teams.
• Drive platform optimization across reliability, scalability, observability, performance, security, and cost management.
• Lead architecture reviews, provide technical governance, and make strategic technology recommendations aligned with business objectives.

Benefits

• Benefits eligibility
• Paid time off
• Resources and support for employees
• Eligibility to participate in the annual discretionary incentive plan, with awards based on individual performance and behavior, line-of-business or group performance and contributions, and company success

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed