Enterprise Architect

Bank of America•Pennington, AL

31d•$105,600 - $165,000•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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! As an Enterprise Architect, this role is responsible for partnering with technology teams across the enterprise to drive adherence to architecture standards, governance processes, and controls within assigned technology domains. The successful candidate will work with architects and subject matter experts across Data Management, Enterprise Security, and Associate Applications to ensure that technology strategies, capability models, and blueprints are developed, maintained, and delivered in a timely manner, and that initiatives and projects align with approved architecture standards, roadmaps, and strategic direction. The role is responsible for supporting architecture governance processes that help ensure compliance with audit, risk, regulatory, and enterprise standards requirements. In addition, the candidate will provide architecture oversight for the introduction of new applications, products, and technologies into the enterprise. As a secondary responsibility, the candidate may author technology blueprints and strategy documents for select capabilities, partnering with domain experts and stakeholders to define the strategic direction, target-state architecture, standards, and governance requirements for those capabilities. The candidate will also support AI-driven automation initiatives within Enterprise Architecture to improve efficiency, governance, reporting, and architecture lifecycle management.

Requirements

5+ years of experience spanning software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, and technology strategy, including experience defining and executing enterprise technology strategies within large-scale organizations.
Experience in software development, application and data architecture, modern software engineering practices, APIs, event-driven architectures, secure-by-design principles, cloud computing, AI technologies, emerging technology trends, and modern development methodologies.
Proven experience governing enterprise architecture standards, conducting design reviews, developing technology strategies and architecture roadmaps, and aligning business strategy, technology strategy, and solution architecture through architecture governance processes.
Hands-on experience with programming languages such as Python and TypeScript, along with familiarity with enterprise infrastructure platforms, including cloud, networking, compute, middleware, and database technologies.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior architects and effectively communicate complex technical concepts.

Nice To Haves

Experience collaborating with CIO Architects, engineering leaders, and technology governance organizations within complex, highly regulated enterprises, preferably in the financial services industry.
Experience developing and maintaining enterprise capability models, architecture blueprints, technology strategies, architecture standards, and reference architectures.
Certification and/or practical experience with architecture frameworks and standards such as TOGAF, UML, BPMN, and Zachman.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Create and maintain domain architecture strategies, blueprints and roadmaps showing the evolution of systems from current to target state to meet strategic business, financial and technology objectives.
Participate in architecture consulting to enable design decisions, lead design sessions where appropriate, manage design tradeoffs between time to market, financial and strategic impact, and support successful implementation of initiatives.
Act as a control function to ensure adherence of designs to blueprints, architectural principles and enterprise standards.
Support compliance of designs to all relevant local laws and regulations.
Identify risks, quickly resolve issues and conflicting priorities, and influence positive outcomes.
Leverage technical expertise to support vendor selection activities, including recommendations on build versus buy decisions.
Support development of prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate designs.
Contribute to the creation and evolution of architectural patterns, principles and guidelines.
Support execution of the architecture governance board.
Provide inputs to annual financial planning and related activities.