Architect

Bank of America • Jersey City, NJ

5d • $105,600 - $165,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices. The role describes solution intent and its operating environment, evaluates system impacts, identifies primary systems and subsystems and their interfaces, and assists with end-to-end solution design. It defines non-functional requirements and the architectural runway for new epics and features, and works with stakeholders and service providers to ensure solutions are fit for purpose.

The position consults with business and operations teams to understand challenges and opportunities, explores solutions through domain knowledge, practical experiments, and proofs of concept, and aligns architecture with an evolving technology-change backlog. It works with product management and stakeholders to prioritize architecture runway work; reviews designs and code for non-functional requirements; shapes flexible, modular architectures; educates teams on technology practices and standards; and supports development teams with system design and resolution of architectural impediments.

The role is based at 525 Washington Blvd in Jersey City, New Jersey. Bank of America states that it is committed to an in-office culture, with an appropriate level of flexibility based on role responsibilities and business needs. The position is 1st shift and is scheduled for 40 hours per week.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience building and operating multiple large-scale enterprise Hadoop environments, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, security, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Experience installing, configuring, and monitoring services across the Cloudera CDP distribution.
• Strong understanding of core Cloudera Hadoop services, including HDFS, MapReduce, Kafka, Spark and Spark-Streaming, Hive, Impala, HBase, Sqoop, and Oozie.
• Experience administering and supporting RHEL Linux operating systems, databases, and hardware in an enterprise environment.
• Expertise in system administration and programming skills, including storage capacity management, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in shell scripting such as BASH or ksh.
• Experience setting up, configuring, and managing Hadoop cluster security using Kerberos integrated with LDAP/AD at enterprise scale.
• Experience scaling enterprise data into the ecosystem.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Expertise writing Python scripts and debugging existing scripts.
• Enterprise database administration experience.
• Experience with large analytic tools, including SAS, search, machine learning, and log aggregation.
• Experience with Hadoop distributions in the cloud, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with Apache NiFi.

Responsibilities

• Consult with business and operations teams to identify technology challenges and opportunities, develop creative solutions, and align solution intent and architectural vision with the evolving technology-change backlog.
• Work with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology-focused backlog items for the architecture runway supporting business epics and features.
• Perform design and code reviews to ensure non-functional requirements, including security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability, are met.
• Lead rapid development of high-level architecture and refine it as business requirements emerge, ensuring the architecture is 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 suggest improvements to those practices and templates.

Benefits

• Industry-leading benefits.
• Access to paid time off.
• Resources and support for employee well-being and impact.
• Eligible 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 overall company success.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level