Technical Architect

Charlotte, North Carolina; Plano, Texas

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Job Description:

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Job Description:

This job is responsible for defining 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

Cloud Strategy & Architecture Leadership

Define and execute cloud and platform architecture strategy aligned with business objectives and enterprise technology standards for a digital platform
Provide architectural oversight to ensure platform initiatives (on‑prem and cloud) support scalability, resiliency, reliability, and long‑term evolution.
Establish and evolve a secure, compliant, and scalable platform foundation.
Define and govern integration patterns across enterprise platforms and domains.
Apply appropriate tools, frameworks, and best practices to support platform stability, performance, monitoring, and operational excellence.

Regulatory, Security & Compliance

Provide architectural insight in compliance with regulatory, data residency, and security requirements for CashPro platform.
Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Information Security teams to ensure adherence to control standards and audit readiness.
Support internal and external reviews related to application architecture and controls.

Team & Capability Development

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

Position Summary

Bank of America is undertaking a strategic, regulated online presence for one of our digital platforms.
This role will lead the cloud and AWS architecture strategy for this initiative. It is a senior position focused on building a compliant, scalable, and cost‑effective cloud foundation that supports both immediate regulatory needs and the long‑term future of our digital platform.
This is not solely a migration role—it is a strategic transformation opportunity requiring strong architectural leadership in a highly regulated environment.

Required Qualifications:

Proven experience designing and leading enterprise‑scale cloud architectures, with deep hands‑on expertise in AWS services including networking, identity and access management (like Ping Identity), Content delivery network (like Akamai), security, monitoring, and resiliency frameworks and products.
Strong background delivering technology solutions in highly regulated financial services environments, with demonstrated understanding of regulatory controls, audit readiness, and risk management
Experience architecting platforms that meet data residency, encryption, and access control requirements, particularly in markets with local regulatory mandates
Demonstrated leadership in driving cloud adoption as a transformation, aligning architecture decisions to business outcomes rather than executing point migrations
Proven ability to partner effectively with Information Security, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Infrastructure teams.
Well versed with Infrastructure and network domains and able to offer solutions for applications resiliency and availability.
Experience guiding and mentoring engineers and architects, setting technical direction, and raising overall cloud maturity
Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex architectural concepts to both technical and senior business stakeholders
Experience managing architecture dependencies across distributed systems and integrating cloud platforms with existing enterprise applications

Desired Qualifications:

AWS Professional‑level certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty)
Experience working with global, multi‑region platforms and cross‑border application integrations
Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, automation, and infrastructure‑as‑code frameworks
Exposure to working with vendor products and vendors like Akamai, Ping Identity, Glassbox etc
Exposure to AWS analytics, automation, and AI/ML services to enable innovation within regulated environments
Experience managing vendor relationships, influencing roadmaps, and negotiating technical and commercial terms
Prior experience contributing to or leading architecture governance forums or design review boards

Skills:

Analytical Thinking
Architecture
Result Orientation
Solution Design
Technical Strategy Development

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

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Technology Architect

Technology Architect: At Bank of America, I help shape the technology strategy that powers our global business.

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As a Technology Architect, I design the systems and frameworks that our organization runs on; developing the digital ecosystem that our enterprise depends on every day – from designing systems to setting technical standards across the organization.

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I guide team members through large-scale projects that make a massive impact on operations. And I rely on daily, cross-team collaboration, whether I’m reviewing designs or mentoring engineers.

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● Strategic planning

● Architecture reviews

● Team collaboration

Every day is different, but almost all of them involve strategic planning, architecture reviews, and working with all of our stakeholders to align on a path forward.

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Balancing:

● Innovation

● Risk

● Scalability

● Compliance

Sometimes my work is a tightrope walk, balancing innovation with risk, scalability, and compliance. Performance versus cost, security versus usability – there are trade-offs I need to weigh to find the best outcome for Bank of America and our clients.

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Leadership development

My role puts me in a unique position for leadership development, enterprise exposure, and gaining technical depth that will only help me grow professionally. And staying active in forums and knowledge-sharing platforms helps keep me in-the-know and inspired. I love bringing what I learn to my work with engineers, product designers, business partners and beyond. That’s where the real magic happens. It’s all about new ideas and creative solutions for cross-functional success.

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There’s a sense of accomplishment knowing the work we do has impact, but feeling supported and valued is a big piece of it too.

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Competitive benefits

With competitive benefits, recognition programs, and exciting career mobility, I feel motivated to take on the future of this industry. I’m helping to build systems that are secure, scalable, and ready for what’s next.

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