Senior Architect Cloud & SaaS

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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

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:

This role leads the network security architecture for cloud platforms and SaaS consumption, ensuring that enterprise workloads can adopt modern delivery models without compromising on security, user experience or operational integrity

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
• The Senior Architect – Cloud & SaaS defines secure design patterns and reference architectures across Public and Private Hybrid environments and multi-tenant SaaS services.
• The role drives zero trust aligned access architectures and ensure cloud services are consumed securely, efficiently, and consistently.
• Standardize architectures for secure cloud and SaaS enablement, security patterns for access, identity, workload protection, and cloud native controls.
• Design authority across programs including application migration, platform modernization and SaaS onboarding. Reusable frameworks for policy enforcement, observability, and risk management
• Partners with global information security, cloud engineering, application teams and product stakeholders to align designs with strategy.
• Provides thought leadership, influences product direction, and ensures adoption of approved patterns.
• Acts as mentor to engineering and security teams, embedding “secure by design” principles across delivery

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive IT experience, with 7+ years in architecture or senior engineering roles designing enterprise-scale systems
• 5+ years of hands-on cloud architecture experience in at least one major public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
• Demonstrated experience designing large-scale, highly available, secure, and resilient platforms supporting mission‑critical workloads
• Proven experience working in regulated environments (financial services, banking, insurance, healthcare, or similar)
• Track record of influencing architecture decisions across multiple lines of business or platforms
• SaaS platform integration, including vendor evaluation, onboarding, and lifecycle management
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)
• Container platforms and orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, ECS/AKS/GKE)
• Cloud networking (VPC/VNet design, segmentation, routing, private connectivity)
• Experience defining reference architectures, design patterns, and guardrails for cloud and SaaS consumption
• Must have hands on experience Identity and Access Management (IAM, RBAC, federation, SSO)
• Proven ability to act as a technical authority and advisor for senior engineering leaders and executives

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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