Patch and Repave Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager – Patch & Repave PlatformAt 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!This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.The Senior Engineering Manager – Patch & Repave Platform will lead the design, architecture, and delivery of a new enterprise solution that enables automated patching of deployed compute infrastructure and repaving of strategic immutable container and VM offerings. This role builds and leads a high-performing engineering team responsible for delivering a secure, scalable, policy-driven platform that modernizes patching practices, reduces vulnerability exposure, and improves reliability through immutable infrastructure patterns.This is a critical leadership role at the intersection of platform engineering, security, SRE/operations, and developer experience, requiring strong execution, technical depth, and stakeholder alignment across a complex enterprise environment.ResponsibilitiesBuilds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectivesFacilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skillsManages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are metManages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organizationContributes to the technology strategy for their technical domainCreates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockersEnsures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholdersManagerial Responsibilities: This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.Required Qualifications8–12+ years in software/platform engineering with 8+ years leading engineering teams (hiring, performance, delivery accountability)Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale platforms (internal developer platforms, infra automation, lifecycle management systems)Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and distributed systems fundamentals (reliability, scalability, fault tolerance)Demonstrated experience with CI/CD, release engineering, and automated quality gates (test automation, progressive delivery patterns)Working knowledge of immutable infrastructure concepts (golden images, artifact promotion, replace vs. mutate) and/or platform lifecycle automationHands-on familiarity with modern infrastructure ecosystems:Containers/Kubernetes and/or VM platformsTechnologies:React/Angular - Java Core - MongoDB/REDISInfrastructure as Code and configuration management approachesObservability (metrics/logs/tracing) and operational toolingStrong collaboration skills across Security, SRE, Infrastructure, and Application stakeholders; ability to align diverse requirements into a coherent roadmapExcellent communication—can translate between executive outcomes, product requirements, and engineering deliveryDesired QualificationsExperience building patch orchestration systems, vulnerability remediation automation, or compliance reporting platformsExperience operating platforms with SLOs and partnering with SRE on operational readiness and on-call rotationsFamiliarity with:Image pipelines (Packer-like approaches), artifact registries, and supply-chain security patternsProgressive delivery tooling and safe rollout strategies (rings/canaries/blue-green)Experience with hybrid/on-prem environments in addition to public cloudFamiliarity with event-driven architecture (pub/sub), streaming, or change-data-capture patterns for maintaining metadata freshness.Experience with UX-heavy internal products and partnering with design teams to deliver polished workflow experiences.Strong background in platform security and compliance automation (audit trails, policy-as-code concepts, evidence generation).Experience building scalable and reliable Tier 1 systemsSkillsInfluenceRisk ManagementSolution DesignStakeholder ManagementTechnical Strategy DevelopmentAnalytical ThinkingApplication DevelopmentCollaborationResult OrientationSolution Delivery ProcessAgile PracticesArchitectureAutomationData ManagementDevOps PracticesShift: 1st shift (United States of America)Hours Per Week: 40