Architecture / 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 do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

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.

Global Markets Technology is seeking an Infrastructure Architect to design, govern, and modernize critical application infrastructure platforms supporting Global Markets business functions. The role is responsible for infrastructure architecture, platform engineering, operational resilience, risk reduction, deployment automation, and technology lifecycle management across a diverse portfolio of business-critical applications.

The successful candidate will partner with application development teams, security teams, engineering organizations, and architecture governance functions to deliver scalable, secure, highly available, and supportable infrastructure solutions aligned with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.

This position requires strong architectural thinking combined with hands-on engineering expertise across middleware, Linux, networking, automation, cloud-connected infrastructure, and application hosting platforms.

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices. 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

Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design for the development teams to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments

Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Creates an inclusive team where members are treated fairly and respectfully.

Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates and expects process knowledge, data driven decisions, simplicity and continuous improvement.

Risk Manager: Leads and encourages the identification, escalation and resolution of potential risks.

Knows and develops team members through coaching and feedback.

Financial Steward: Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines.

Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Linux, Windows

Hosting solutions: bare metal, internal cloud (VMWare), external cloud (AWS/Azure)

Understanding of Network infrastructure ( TCP/IP, TLS,DNS, Load-balancers, firewalls, proxies, B2B links)

DB Solutions: SQL and NoSQL like Oracle, MS SQL, MongoDB, Redis

Knowledge of shell, Python, or PowerShell scripting

Container platforms – OpenShift, Kubernetes

Middleware products: Apache, J2EE, Java, JBoss, Tomcat

Dynatrace, Splunk, BMC Truesight, Grafana

Architecture

Application Development

Data Management

DevOps Practices

Risk Management

Agile Practices

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America) Hours Per Week:

Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.