Senior Architect

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. 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)

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

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in related field

LOB Specific Job Description

Job responsibilities:

Serves as an internal senior trusted advisor providing security consulting services across multiple project teams, to provide advice on security.

Assists with compensating control alternatives where security requirements cannot be met.

Integrates efforts and extensively collaborates with Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to move with greater speed and accuracy.

Promotes and fosters collaboration and standardization across multiple internal technology groups based on common technology interests and priorities.

Establishes and maintains a repository of reference architectures, deploys best practices and lessons learned to drive efficient business development initiatives and continuously explore ways to shorten time to production.

Monitors emerging business and cybersecurity trends and proactively identify emerging cybersecurity use cases and drive innovation opportunities.

Identifies teams needed based on the proposed solution.

Works with the Project Manager, Engineer, technical application leads and Functional/Business Analysts to develop a high-level project schedule, resource plan for the project, and project costs.

Applies technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap.

Collaborates with other Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions.

Determines security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements.

Develop security policies, procedures, and controls to mitigate risks and meet compliance obligations.

Required Skills

Security and Compliance experience – must have strong experience and understanding of security/compliance requirements.

5 years’ experience in information security and/or IT risk management with a focus on security, performance and reliability.

Solid understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorization and security.

3-5+ years work experience at Bank of America in an engineering or architecture role.

Desired Skills

A degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field is highly desirable. CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) certifications.

Identity and Access Management.

Cloud Security knowledge.

Networking.

Data Security.

Infrastructure Security.

Zero Trust.

Security Tools and Monitoring.

Knowledge of current IT risks and experience implementing security solutions.

Shift:1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 40

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