Principal Engineer - Channels Data Platforms and Analytics

Bank of America•Addison, IL

14h•Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Engineer serves as the architectural authority for Channels Data Platforms and Analytics. This leader defines the target state architecture, drives modernization from legacy technologies to cloud native platforms, and ensures security, resiliency, performance, and compliance across the data and analytics ecosystem. The role provides strategic and technical oversight for the Payment Tracker and guides the transformation of large scale engineering teams and platforms, including mainframe based reporting systems. The Principal Engineer will lead the architecture, modernization, and transformation of the Channels Data Platform, which today includes on prem data warehouses, Informatica ETL, Hadoop ecosystems, mission critical mainframe processing, and legacy reporting workloads. The role will evolve this platform toward a cloud native, scalable, resilient architecture leveraging Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, APIs/microservices, and modern engineering patterns. This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for solutions at the program or portfolio level, to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities include continuously improving the design, quality, and reuse of the solution and delivering technology enablers that improve development efficiencies for the solution. Job expectations include familiarity with at least one area of engineering, acting as a “go to” reference across the organization, and applying knowledge to improve technical competencies through recruitment and development activities.

Requirements

12+ years in data/software engineering with 8+ years designing enterprise data platforms or large distributed architectures.
Demonstrated leadership in cloud modernization (Azure preferred), including Databricks (Spark/Delta), Snowflake, Kafka/Event Hubs.
Strong background in modernizing legacy systems, including Informatica ETL, Hadoop/Big Data systems, and mainframe workloads (batch pipelines, reporting interfaces).
Deep expertise in NFR driven design: resiliency, security, performance, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.
Strong proficiency in SQL and Python (Scala or Java a plus).
Proven ability to influence senior leaders, drive enterprise alignment, and deliver outcomes in highly regulated environments.
Strong communication skills—capable of translating complex engineering concepts for executive, business, and technical audiences.
Experience with microservices, containers (Kubernetes/OpenShift), API gateways, and integration patterns.
Familiarity with at least one area of engineering, acting as a “go to” reference across the organization, and applying knowledge to improve technical competencies through recruitment and development activities.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Payments, Channels, CashPro, or analytics driven applications.
Knowledge of semantic layers (dbt, LookML), data quality frameworks (Great Expectations/Deequ), and data governance (Purview, Collibra).
FinOps experience with cost optimization for cloud data workloads.
Advanced understanding of streaming, event driven architectures, and ML/AI integration.

Responsibilities

Define and communicate the solution intent and architectural vision across Business, Data, Application, and Technology domains.
Build and maintain a multi year modernization roadmap for Channels Data Platforms, including mainframe, Hadoop, ETL, and analytics components.
Establish target operating models, architectural patterns, and guardrails to support evolving capabilities and regulatory expectations.
Drive enterprise alignment by collaborating with Enterprise Architecture, Platform Architecture, Information Governance, Risk, and Product.
Lead transformation from Informatica, on prem databases, Hadoop, and mainframe based reporting into cloud native architectures (Azure, Databricks/Delta, Snowflake, Event Hubs/Kafka).
Define migration paths for mainframe jobs, batch interfaces, and legacy ledger/reporting logic into scalable modern architectures.
Implement CI/CD for data, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep), observability (logs/metrics/traces), and cost/performance governance.
Ensure platform resiliency, scalability, and operational readiness (HA/DR, autoscaling, performance tuning, traffic management).
Provide end to end architectural oversight for Payment Tracker, including UI, APIs/microservices, data models, analytics layers, and dashboards.
Guide design for real time and near real time insights, data marts, and advanced analytics embedded in Payment Tracker experiences.
Ensure adherence to NFRs (performance, security, maintainability, reliability) and integrated monitoring/alerting for application and data services.
Lead design and code reviews; resolve architectural blockers; ensure compliance with the Bank’s Risk Framework, data privacy, entitlements, masking, and audit expectations.
Partner with delivery teams to translate strategy into actionable technical backlogs and architecture epics.
Drive the creation of reusable accelerators, libraries, templates, migration playbooks, and modernization frameworks.
Mentor engineers and elevate engineering excellence across Channels Technology.
Own R&D for the data and analytics portfolio: evaluate emerging tools, run POCs/Pilots, benchmark performance, publish decision records, and set technology adoption standards.
Develops the engineering approach for the entire program/portfolio solution and works with Architecture, to develop/analyze/deliver the implementation of technical enablers
Leads the planning, definition, and design of the complex features which span multiple teams and explore solution alternatives
Creates ideas on designing complex technology and solution development approaches
Leads the technical oversight for teams in solution development including design reviews and code within own domain
Defines the technology tool stack for the solution within ranged of internally approved and supported technologies
Explores state-of-the-art technologies to improve development efficiencies, quality of test/QA coverage, and release management
Leads and is responsible for the end-to-end test strategy/creation/adherence, and the integration between teams for a program/portfolio solution

Benefits

Access to paid time off
Resources and support to our employees
Discretionary incentive eligible
Annual discretionary award based on individual performance, line of business performance, and overall company success.

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