Senior Architect - Cloud Payments

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.

Position Summary

Bank of America is currently seeking a Senior Architect to evolve strategy for providing secure, reliable and innovative payment solutions to our healthcare clients. The Sr. Architect works to deliver high-quality cloud solutions and helps drive a strong DevOps culture. Leading the team, you will be responsible for the architecture, development, deployment, and operations of our cloud infrastructure. You will be expected to share the on-call duty with the rest of the DevOps and engineering teams. Working closely with our Development teams you will be a champion of DevOps best practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as code, containerization, microservice architecture, automated testing, and security.

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 Developers to build a world-class infrastructure that can meet our customer’s security and uptime requirements
• Drive the development of our developer and CI/CD processes to improve our developer agility and code quality
• Manage mission-critical cloud-based production systems; proactively take action if/when systems are down or there are interruptions in service; root cause and implement corrective actions to build long-term customer loyalty
• Help create and evolve our operational processes
• Help to identify emerging technologies that can enhance our offering to our customers
• Be passionate about automation, quality, reliability, and scalability
• Design and manage highly scalable/available Cloud Infrastructure 
• Working with version control tools such as Bitbucket or Github
• Perform Patch management tasks include: maintaining current knowledge of available patches, deciding what patches are appropriate for particular systems, ensuring that patches are installed properly, testing systems after installation, and documenting all associated procedures. 
• Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management. 
• Test new releases of products to ensure compatibility and minimize user impact. 
• Develop and document technical processes and procedures as needed. Provide technical assistance and support for incoming queries and issues related to computer systems, software, and hardware. 

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 4-8+ years in Cloud Technologies preferably AWS 
• Minimum 4-8+ years of experience with deployment orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS, and Elastic Beanstalk 
• Knowledge of AWS and its associated technologies, both from DevOps and CloudOps perspective 
• Knowledge of Amazon ECS Cloud instances and configuration
• Minimum 4-8+ years of experience working with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI or Jenkins 
• Minimum 4-8+ years of experience with Docker and Docker-Compose 
• Minimum 4-8+ years with configuration management and automation tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation, SaltStack, Terraform) 
• Strong Linux system administration experience 
• Strong programming experience in at least one language (python, node, java, go, c/c++, ruby) 
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as ELK, DataDog or NewRelic, LogEntries, SumoLogic, etc. 
• Experience with Incident Management and crisis management 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills 

Desired Qualifications:

• Extensive knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure as code
• Extensive knowledge of CI/CD tools and configuration of build and release pipelines

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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