Senior Engineering Manager & Solution Architect – Cloud & API Enablement

Bank of America•Plano, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders. Overview The Senior Engineering Manager & Solution Architect for Cloud and API Enablement is responsible for leading the engineering, architecture, and delivery strategy for enterprise cloud enablement capabilities across private and public cloud platforms. This role serves as both the engineering leader for API Enablement and the lead solution architect for cloud enablement services, driving the development of scalable, secure, automated, and customer-centric platform capabilities. The successful candidate will lead engineering teams, establish architecture standards, and partner across infrastructure, cloud, security, networking, storage, middleware, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), product management, and customer engineering organizations to deliver modern self-service cloud platforms that accelerate cloud adoption, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the developer experience. The role is accountable for the strategy, architecture, engineering, and operational success of key cloud enablement capabilities, including API Enablement, Infrastructure Console, Patch and Repave Automation, Metadata and Configuration Services, Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code Enablement, Cloud Provisioning Workflows, Policy-as-Code Integration, and Platform Reliability and Observability.

Requirements

10+ years of experience leading engineering teams responsible for enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, APIs, developer platforms, or automation services
Proven success managing senior engineers and technical leaders in complex, large-scale technology organizations
Deep experience designing and architecting enterprise-scale cloud, infrastructure, automation, or platform engineering solutions
Strong understanding of private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, and enterprise infrastructure operating models
Experience with APIs, self-service platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code, workflow automation, metadata services, and cloud governance capabilities
Demonstrated ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, and reliable solutions
Experience developing technology strategies, architecture roadmaps, and governance frameworks
Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills
Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on execution and delivery accountability
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

Experience leading cloud enablement, platform engineering, or developer platform organizations
Expertise with API management platforms, API gateways, and enterprise API strategies
Experience building self-service infrastructure and cloud consumption platforms
Strong familiarity with Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code, policy-as-code, and automation frameworks
Experience with metadata management, CMDB integrations, and platform data architectures
Knowledge of observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), reliability engineering, and operational excellence practices
Experience implementing cloud governance, security, risk, and compliance controls in highly regulated environments
Demonstrated success driving cloud adoption, platform modernization, and developer experience improvements at scale

Responsibilities

Builds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectives
Facilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skills
Manages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are met
Manages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organization
Contributes to the technology strategy for their technical domain
Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders
Lead the engineering, architecture, and delivery strategy for enterprise cloud enablement capabilities across private and public cloud platforms
Manage and develop a high-performing engineering team responsible for API enablement and cloud platform services
Define and execute technology roadmaps that improve scalability, reliability, security, automation, and customer experience
Serve as the lead solution architect for cloud enablement capabilities, establishing target-state architectures, reference designs, and integration patterns
Drive the development of standardized self-service platform capabilities, including APIs, infrastructure provisioning, Infrastructure-as-Code, policy controls, and operational workflows
Partner with infrastructure, cloud, security, networking, storage, middleware, product, and SRE teams to deliver integrated platform solutions
Establish architecture governance, engineering standards, and operational excellence practices across cloud enablement services
Ensure platform capabilities are designed for ease of consumption, operational efficiency, compliance, and long-term sustainability
Define and monitor key performance indicators related to platform adoption, reliability, service quality, and customer satisfaction
Champion innovation and continuous improvement initiatives that accelerate cloud adoption and enhance the developer experience
Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.