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. 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 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.

We are looking for an experienced senior lead/architect to join Collaboration and Productivity team as we move from being a tech-enabled service to a tech product hub. We are looking for passionate and enthusiastic people who are energized by solving complex business problems and provide excellent technical solutions. The role requires experience in all aspects of software development, as well as a proven track record of development of enterprise solutions. Candidate will be required to produce detailed, low level technical designs for implementation by development teams while ensuring all solutions seamlessly integrate with other technologies within the bank. Collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts, including line of business, business technology teams, operational support teams, various technology organizations, and vendors to develop and support design of Data Retention and Legal Hold. Responsible for adhering to, owning, updating, and creating necessary security standards. Ownership of controls to ensure platform operates efficiently and flawlessly.

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)

• Collaborate with Product & Service team to understand requirements and set objectives in line with end-to-end solution delivery plan.

• Work with Product, Engineering, and Service Delivery teams to prioritize new features and capabilities; oversee sprint delivery and ensure alignment with end-to-end service delivery.

• Participate in solution driven discussions, contribute to the design of large or highly complex designs, and find creative solutions using knowledge of the domain with consideration for operational and/or performance constraints.

• Decompose complex tasks into actionable work units and deliverables and assign work units to individuals.

• Ensure delivery detailed documentation for team consumption and use by Operations team for support.

• Perform deep dive analysis of automation breaks, identify solutions, and manage through resolution.

• Respond to risk or audit identified issues with designs that ensure compliance with software best practices, release standards, and policies.

• Contribute to the development strategy for respective technical domain and lead senior teammates.

• Mentor and guide senior engineers ensuring system design technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience
• Java/J2EE, Javascript,
• Node JS,
• Spring and J2EE design patterns,
• SQL, 
• Server-side RESTful web services

Desired Qualifications:

• CTI APIs, including TSAPI, JTAPI, Lync UCWA, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap/JQuery, AngularJS, JUnit Framework Jenkins automation framework

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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