Senior 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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description:
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.

Position Summary:

This position will be for a highly competent Sr. Architect to join our dynamic technology resiliency team. This candidate will play a crucial part in working with technical service owners to assess application ability to recovery from a variety of failure scenarios and thoughtfully design data validation and testing approaches. This work requires collaboration with production support, engineering and core infrastructure functions as well as developers and architects. The Senior Architect is an individual contributor and is direct report to the head of Global Resiliency and Business Continuity

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)

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of full stack build techniques, automation, and data protection
• Flexible, hands on – comfortable both providing guidance and digging in live to provide tangible assistance in execution of required planning and testing artifacts
• Ability to assimilate information and work with up to four distinct and potentially unrelated services, each with 2 – 20 critical applications
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly
• Highly organized, ability to simultaneously prioritize tasks and handle numerous time-sensitive issues
• Identifies linkages and thinks "enterprise" across business lines and geographies
• Embraces and drives changes
• Proactively takes a leadership role to ensure team success
• Drives positive energy across the team
• Analytical/strong attention to detail
• Proficient Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, & Outlook skills
• Strong written & verbal communication skills
• Strong meeting facilitation skills

Desired Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software architecture, technology architecture or equivalent.
• Experience in failure analysis and contingency planning
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering

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