Senior Technology Manager - Data Analytic Platforms

Bank of America•Plano, TX

19h•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for leading enterprise-scale data platform modernization and technology transformation initiatives that support critical business and regulatory outcomes. The position drives strategy, funding, and execution for large, complex programs—including platform upgrades, infrastructure scaling, application migrations, and AI enablement—while ensuring security, compliance, and operational excellence. The role partners closely with executive leadership, builds and develops high‑performing engineering teams, reduces technical risk and debt, and advances innovation through modern architectures, automation, and DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a unique blend of strategic leadership, technical acumen, and organizational influence to drive enterprise-scale technology initiatives. This role requires proven ability to lead complex programs, manage risk, and foster innovation while ensuring operational excellence. 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.

Requirements

Over a decade of leadership experience driving large‑scale data platform strategies across data lake, warehouse, and distributed computing systems.
Proven leadership in enterprise data architecture, driving scalability, reliability, and modernization of complex analytics platforms.
Oversight of security and identity integration, including large‑scale AD/Kerberos implementations to strengthen enterprise data governance.
Experience in cluster optimization and performance engineering, ensuring efficient resource management and operational excellence.
Broad technical leadership spanning infrastructure, data engineering, automation, and modern development practices.
Strong champion of DevOps, automation, and continuous delivery, advancing engineering efficiency through tools like Ansible, Jenkins, and Bitbucket.
Track record of building high‑performing engineering teams, uplifting standards for monitoring, alerting, and operational resilience.
Executive Engagement & Influence: Ability to maintain strong partnerships with senior leadership, lead platform reviews, and align technology initiatives with enterprise strategy.
Team Development & Talent Management: Skilled in building high-performing teams, promoting leadership layers, and retaining critical subject matter expertise through strategic hiring and conversion.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Expertise in fostering synergies across programs and programs, driving alignment between business and technology stakeholders.
Technical Expertise Modern Data Platforms: Deep experience in distributed data ecosystems, federated compute/storage architecture, and advanced data lake solutions.
Enterprise Data Platforms & Modernization: Deep experience in Hadoop ecosystems, Cloudera CDP upgrades, federated compute/storage architecture, and advanced data lake solutions.
Infrastructure Scaling & Optimization: Proven ability to deliver creative infrastructure growth, implement secure and governed architectures, and enable self-service capabilities.
Risk Management & Compliance: Strong background in vulnerability remediation) OS upgrades and automation strategies to reduce technical debt and improve efficiency.
Innovation & Emerging Technologies: Track record of delivering AI/GenAI solutions, decommissioning legacy platforms, and implementing cost-efficient in-house models.
Strategic Program Delivery: Successful execution of large-scale application migrations, platform upgrades, and modernization initiatives supporting critical regulatory programs.
Ability to secure and manage multi-million-dollar funding for technology programs, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.
Organizational Engagement: Active participation in executive leadership programs and innovation councils.
Commitment to diversity and inclusion through mentorship and community engagement.
Leadership in associate engagement initiatives, driving recognition and cultural impact across global teams.
Influence
Risk Management
Solution Design
Stakeholder Management
Technical Strategy Development
Analytical Thinking
Application Development
Collaboration
Result Orientation
Solution Delivery Process
Agile Practices
Architecture
Automation
Data Management
DevOps Practices

Nice To Haves

Experience working on Big Data Technologies, Hadoop, Teradata, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.
AI/ML Platform Integration
Multi/Hybrid Cloud Solutions

Responsibilities

Drives strategy, funding, and execution for large, complex programs—including platform upgrades, infrastructure scaling, application migrations, and AI enablement—while ensuring security, compliance, and operational excellence.
Partners closely with executive leadership, builds and develops high‑performing engineering teams, reduces technical risk and debt, and advances innovation through modern architectures, automation, and DevOps practices.
Leads complex programs, manages risk, and fosters innovation while ensuring operational excellence.
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.
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.