Architect - AWS

Bank of America•Jersey City, NJ

1d•$105,600 - $165,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Cloud Architect (AWS) defines and implements the cloud architecture strategy for the HPS platform. The role designs secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions while establishing 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 cloud solutions, providing technical leadership and architectural guidance across the HPS portfolio. It defines architectural vision and solution intent aligned with enterprise architecture, evaluates system impacts and interfaces, supports end-to-end design, and ensures solutions meet functional and non-functional needs.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or solution architecture, including 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 implementing Terraform-based 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, 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, including 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 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, leading multiple concurrent initiatives, and influencing cross-functional teams.
Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with 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 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 blue/green deployments, canary releases, progressive traffic shifting, and zero-downtime deployment strategies.
Experience architecting and operating solutions in regulated industries such as financial services or healthcare.
Experience establishing vulnerability management programs, integrating security scanning into CI/CD pipelines, and driving remediation with security and application teams.
Familiarity with application architectures and modernization patterns across Java, Ruby, and .NET.
Experience using Python, Bash, or equivalent scripting 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 promoting cloud architecture standards and best practices.
Strong understanding of cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and performance engineering.

Responsibilities

Consult with business and operations teams to understand technology challenges and opportunities, develop solutions through domain knowledge, experiments, and proofs of concept, and align solution intent and architectural vision to the evolving technology backlog.
Work with product management and stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology backlog items that build the architecture runway for business epics and features.
Perform design and code reviews to ensure non-functional requirements—including security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability—are met.
Shape high-level architecture as business requirements emerge, ensuring designs are flexible, modular, and adaptable.
Educate team members on technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices.
Clarify architecture and assist development teams with system design and implementation; provide solution options to resolve architectural impediments.
Use established best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs and recommend improvements to them.
Architect, design, and govern secure, scalable, and 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 accordance with enterprise policies and regulatory standards.
Develop and maintain architecture standards, operational runbooks, engineering documentation, and deployment procedures.