Senior Architect

Bank of America•Plano, TX

17h•Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, the Senior Architect contributes to the company’s purpose of helping make financial lives better through Responsible Growth. The role is part of an in-office culture intended to support collaboration, engagement, and career development, with flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. The Senior Architect is an Application Architect responsible for Cloud Governance and Workload Approval. Serving as a central governance authority, this position enables teams to onboard workloads efficiently while ensuring alignment with enterprise security, regulatory, architectural, and operational standards. The role owns the overall architecture of hybrid cloud platforms and their components, provides expert guidance on cloud design and operational practices, and helps define and govern cloud engineering and platform standards. The architect evaluates and selects cloud services and tools, develops and maintains platform architecture artifacts, blueprints, and reference implementations, and influences decisions through architecture review discussions. The position partners with Information Security to build secure application patterns into cloud platforms and advises teams managing complex applications, escalating risks and communicating challenges to stakeholders across engineering, operations, development, and leadership.

Requirements

Experience with container-native technologies, such as Kubernetes, container-native virtualization, and networking.
Experience with cloud-native logging, monitoring, and operations tools such as Splunk and Prometheus.
Experience with container technologies and CI/CD tools, including Jenkins, pipelines, and container repositories.
Experience with infrastructure automation tools and general programming languages, such as Ansible, Java, and Python.
Expert-level proficiency in at least one of the following areas, with familiarity with the others: cloud IAM; cloud network and security design; cloud IaaS design, including image creation and management with tools such as Packer; native cloud services such as CosmosDB and BigTable; cloud-native Kubernetes services such as AKS, GKE, and EKS; or Red Hat OpenShift public cloud design and implementation.
Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, and Salt.
Experience with Agile development practices and test-driven development.
Demonstrated organizational, leadership, communication, coaching, and troubleshooting skills.

Nice To Haves

Hadoop
Kafka
KDB
MongoDB
Mulesoft ESB
Python
Cloud Architecture

Responsibilities

Maintain thought leadership in cloud technology and stay current on offerings from cloud service providers.
Maintain product design documentation and provide oversight of the overall architecture of hybrid cloud platforms and their components.
Provide expert guidance on cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices.
Participate in the Cloud Center of Excellence to define and govern best practices for cloud platform engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance.
Plan and implement the selection of cloud services and tools that support the cloud roadmap.
Lead discussions in the architecture review board, develop platform architecture artifacts, and influence architectural decisions.
Maintain blueprints and reference implementations of cloud products.
Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure application patterns and incorporate security from the outset into cloud platforms.
Guide teams with highly complex applications on cloud platforms and escalate risks and issues as appropriate.
Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions among engineering, operations, development, and leadership stakeholders.
Serve as the central authority for cloud governance and workload approval, enabling efficient workload onboarding while ensuring compliance with enterprise standards.