Architect

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices. Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts, determining the primary systems/sub-systems and their interfaces, and assisting with end-to-end solution design. Job expectations include defining non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by working with stakeholders and service providers.

Responsibilities:

Consults with the business and operations to identify and understand challenges and opportunities to improve the use and effectiveness of technology, find creative solutions through knowledge of the domain, practical experiments, and Proof of Concepts, and aligns the solution intent and architectural vision to an evolving backlog of technology change

Works with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features

Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)

Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements and ensures architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt easily

Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions

Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design for the development teams to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments

Utilizes the defined best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs and suggests improvements to best practices and templates

Define the overarching architecture, standards, patterns, and best practices for application and platform development.

Architect end-to-end solutions using React/Java/NodeJS, Python, Oracle, and microservices.

Design scalable containerized and cloud-native solutions

Establish architectural blueprints, reference architectures, and reusable frameworks.

Guide engineering teams through complex solution design decisions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.

Conduct deep architecture reviews of applications, microservices, APIs, and data flows.

Provide mentorship to developers, senior engineers, and application teams.

Architect, optimize, and evolve the internal application platform to support:

UI frameworks

API gateways

Microservice orchestration

Observability and logging frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

Ensure the platform supports high performance, multi-tenancy, and scalability.

Architect solutions that manage structured/unstructured data leveraging MS SQL, Oracle, RDBMS concepts, and distributed data tools

Work closely with data engineering teams to ensure metadata, lineage, and quality are integrated into platform services.

Application Modernization

Analyze existing applications and platforms to identify modernization opportunities.

Lead refactoring, migration to microservices, and cloud-native transformations.

Establish principles for reusability, modularity, and standardized components.

Define and evolve platform CI/CD standards using Git-based workflows.

Ensure platform security, reliability, performance tuning, and governance compliance.

Collaboration & Strategy

Partner with product owners to translate business requirements into technology roadmaps.

Provide architectural input on major initiatives, platform investments, and technical debt reduction.

Engage with cross-functional teams to ensure solution alignment across the organization.

Required Qualifications:

10+ years of experience in application development and platform engineering.

5+ years in an architect

Commercial credit domain and banking expertise.

Experience in Unit Testing along with QA Test Automation Frameworks (RAFT, Selenium Framework, Octane).

Define architecture roadmaps (Business, Application, Data, Technology) aligned with the product roadmap.

Contribute to the development of best practices including standardized templates.

Translate product vision into solution intent and a high-level, adaptable architecture; evolve it with the backlog.

Lead rapid shaping, POCs and design of complex solutions; ensure modularity, flexibility and scalability.

Work with Product Owner to prioritize the architecture runway and technology backlog.

Clarify designs, assist teams, and resolve architectural impediments.

Conduct design/code reviews to ensure non-functional requirements (security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, reliability) are met.

Educate team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies and best practices to create innovative solutions.

Ability to create architecture diagrams, roadmaps, and technical documentation.

Strong knowledge of engineering best practices: testing strategies, coding standards, security controls.

Ability to lead engineering teams through architectural and design decisions.

Strong communication skills to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical partners.

Ability to influence stakeholders across products, engineering, infra, and security.

Proven track record of driving architectural transformation across the SDLC.

Desired Qualifications:

Data Modeling and Architect

Solution Design

Experience in Unit Testing along with QA Test Automation Frameworks (RAFT, Selenium Framework, Octane).

Skills:

Analytical Thinking

Architecture

Result Orientation

Solution Design

Technical Strategy Development

Application Development

Collaboration

Data Man