Technical Architect

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We drive Responsible Growth and deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders by fostering an inclusive workplace, supporting wellness, recognizing performance, and making an impact in the communities we serve.

About the Role

This role leads the cloud and AWS architecture strategy for a strategic, regulated online presence of one of our digital platforms. 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 a strategic transformation opportunity requiring strong architectural leadership in a highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Consult with business and operations to identify challenges and opportunities, improve technology use, and align solution intent with an evolving backlog of technology change.
• Work with product management and stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology-focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features.
• Perform design and code reviews to ensure non-functional requirements (e.g., security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, reliability) are met.
• Lead rapid shaping of high-level architecture, ensuring flexibility, modularity, and adaptability to emerging business requirements.
• 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 tools, frameworks, and best practices to support platform stability, performance, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Provide architectural insight in compliance with regulatory, data residency, and security requirements for the 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.
• Educate team members on technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions.
• Clarify architecture and assist with system design for development teams to support implementation, providing solution options to resolve architectural impediments.
• Utilize defined best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs and suggest improvements.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and leading enterprise-scale cloud architectures, with deep hands-on expertise in AWS services including networking, identity and access management (e.g., Ping Identity), content delivery networks (e.g., Akamai), security, monitoring, and resiliency frameworks.
• 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 in infrastructure and network domains, offering solutions for application 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.

Qualifications

• AWS Professional-level certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty) are desired.
• 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 such as 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

Schedule

1st shift (United States of America), 40 hours per week.