Senior Architect - DMZ Network Security

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.

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 Principal Architect – Data Center defines network architecture standards for physical and virtual infrastructure including bare metal, hypervisor, converged/hyperconverged systems, and storage platforms.
• The role drives modernization through software defined networking, automation, resilience, and lifecycle management, ensuring infrastructure can support containerization, hybrid workloads and cloud adjacency.
• Standardized network designs for secure, scalable software defined datacentre infrastructure. Architecture patterns enabling modern private cloud and high-performance compute. Design authority across programs including platform refresh, hosting strategy, and lifecycle decommissioning. Reusable frameworks for automation, mobility, observability, and capacity forecasting
• Works closely with infrastructure operations, platform engineering, cloud architects and security teams to drive alignment. Acts as the technical authority on Datacentre programs and modernization initiatives. Mentors engineering teams, embeds lifecycle and security considerations early in the design, and ensures delivery is consistent with enterprise standards.
• Enables resilient and cost-effective infrastructure platforms, improves consistency across regions and accelerates modernization of core systems. Supports cloud migration, improves audit posture, and ensures datacentre investments align with strategic goals

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive infrastructure / network / security engineering experience with 5+ years in architecture or senior technical leadership roles
• Must have experience taking ownership of perimeter security and DMZ architectures for large-scale, high-availability enterprise environments
• Proven delivery experience in regulated industries (financial services strongly preferred) with strong understanding of audit, risk, and control expectations
• Strong experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving Network, Security, App teams, IAM, SRE/Operations, and Governance/Risk/Compliance (GRC)
• Deep expertise designing and implementing segmented DMZ and perimeter architectures.
• Experience embedding security measures.
• Familiarity with threat modeling for internet-facing applications and partner connectivity
• Demonstrated ability to create and enforce reference architectures, standards, patterns, and guardrails.

Desired Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with one or more of: Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, Cisco, Juniper SRX F5, HAProxy, NGINX, cloud LBs, Akamai/Cloudflare (WAF/DDoS/CDN), Imperva, API gateways (Apigee, Kong, Mulesoft, AWS API Gateway / Azure APIM) SIEM integrations (Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar)
• Security/network certifications such as: CISSP / CCSP (security architecture), PCNSE/CCNP Security, GIAC (e.g., GSEC, GCIA), or equivalent

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Virtualization

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