Technical Architect

At Bank of America, we help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.

This job is responsible for defining architectural vision and solution aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices. Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts, determining the primary systems/sub-systems and their interfaces, and assisting with end-to-end solution design. Job expectations include defining non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by working with stakeholders and service providers.

• Consults with the business and operations to identify and understand challenges and opportunities to improve the use and effectiveness of technology, find creative solutions through knowledge of the domain, practical experiments, and Proof of Concepts, and aligns the solution intent and architectural vision to an evolving backlog of technology change
• Works with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
• Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements and ensures architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt easily

• 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 appropriate 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 Cash Pro 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.

• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design for the development teams to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Utilizes the defined best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs and suggests improvements to best practices and templates

• Bank of America is undertaking a strategic, regulated online presence for one of our digital platforms.
• This role will lead the cloud and AWS architecture strategy for this initiative. 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 not solely a migration role-it is a strategic transformation opportunity requiring strong architectural leadership in a highly regulated environment.

• Proven experience designing and leading enterprise‑scale cloud architectures, with deep hands‑on expertise in AWS services including networking, identity and access management (like Ping Identity), Content delivery network (like Akamai), security, monitoring, and resiliency frameworks and products.
• Strong background delivering technology solutions in highly regulated financial services environments, with demonstrated understanding of regulatory…