Senior Architect - Payments Modernization

Bank of America•Jersey City, NJ

2d•$140,500 - $205,000•Onsite

About The Position

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap.

Requirements

Strong experience with external cloud (specifically AWS)
Strong experience to cloud modernization and microservices transformation
Demonstrated leadership in driving cloud adoption as a transformation, aligning architecture decisions to business outcomes rather than executing point migrations
Strong background delivering technology solutions in highly regulated financial services environments, with demonstrated understanding of regulatory controls, audit readiness, and risk management
Proven ability to partner effectively with Information Security, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Infrastructure teams.
Well versed with Infrastructure and network domains and able to offer solutions for applications resiliency and availability.
Strong analytical skills and ability to effectively challenge information
Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex architectural concepts to both technical and senior business stakeholders
Experience managing architecture dependencies across distributed systems and integrating cloud platforms with existing enterprise applications
Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced, deadline-specific environment
Proficiency in using MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint

Nice To Haves

Strong communication and technical influencing skills to guide solution direction across engineering, architecture, and operational teams.

Responsibilities

Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products
Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)