Senior Infrastructure Architect

Job Description:

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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 is a critical role supporting Bank of America’s efforts to build the next generation of its internal cloud platform, GEOS. The Senior Infrastructure Architect will lead the strategic modernization of the GEOS on‑premise compute platform, driving the design and build cycle for resilient, scalable hosting platforms within newly established GEOS data centers.

The role establishes best practices for platform hosting, sets technical direction for custom engineering solutions and strategic vendor integrations, and remains hands‑on in lab environments to validate designs and test solutions. In parallel, the architect embeds enterprise risk and control requirements into all architecture patterns, partnering closely with Cybersecurity, 2nd Line Risk, and Internal Audit to ensure compliance, resiliency, and audit readiness.

This role requires deep expertise in hyperconverged infrastructure and VMware/Nutanix virtualization, combined with disciplined risk management, to deliver a modern, secure, and well‑governed on‑premise infrastructure platform.

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)
• The Senior Infrastructure Architect will drive the strategic on‑premise platform upgrade for GEOS, with deep expertise in hyper‑converged infrastructure, VMware/Nutanix virtualization, and integration of compute platforms into newly established GEOS data centers.
• This role ensures that designs meet workload demands, resiliency objectives, and the automation principles.
• In addition to core engineering leadership, this architect will play a central role in risk and control alignment.
• Responsibilities include embedding required technical controls into architecture patterns, validating designs against enterprise risk frameworks, and ensuring compliance with configuration, access, segmentation, monitoring, and resiliency standards.
• The senior architect will regularly engage 2nd Line Risk, Internal Audit, and Cybersecurity to address control expectations, respond to challenges, and ensure architectural decisions withstand scrutiny.

Required Qualifications:

• 10–15 years of progressive experience in infrastructure architecture and/or platform engineering environments.
• Deep hands-on expertise designing and modernizing on‑premise infrastructure platforms, including next‑generation data center builds.
• Strong architectural and implementation experience with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) platforms.
• Advanced proficiency with VMware and/or Nutanix virtualization technologies, including large-scale, production grade deployments.
• Experience integrating compute platforms into new or greenfield data center environments
• Proven experience leading strategic platform modernization initiatives, from architecture design through build, validation, and production rollout.
• Strong understanding of resiliency, high availability, scalability, and performance requirements for enterprise workloads.
• Ability to balance engineering innovation with disciplined risk management in regulated environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across engineering, risk, and governance teams.
• Experience setting technical strategy and providing architectural leadership across multiple engineering teams.

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to define and enforce best practices, reference architectures, and design patterns for hosting platforms
• Hands-on lab experience validating architectural designs, testing solutions, and supporting proof-of-concept efforts
• Strong background embedding enterprise risk, security, and control requirements into infrastructure architecture.
• Experience supporting audit readiness, responding to control challenges, and ensuring architectural decisions withstand regulatory and internal scrutiny.
• Experience aligning architectures to enterprise risk frameworks, configuration standards, access controls, network segmentation, monitoring, and resiliency requirements.

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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