Senior Architect

Job Description:

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.

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!

Job Description:
Participates in the development and maintenance of a business and system architecture and conducts business information flow studies. Provides integrated systems planning and recommends new or different technologies that will enhance current systems and support overall corporate and business goals. Conducts system architecture studies of new and existing IT systems to permit development of integrated systems that operate at low cost levels. Recommends the appropriate computer platform, work stations and communication linkage required to support distributed and client server business processes and information flows. Interfaces with business areas to ensure all initiatives support business strategies and goals. Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource; routine accountability is for technical knowledge and capabilities as a team member or as an individual contributor. Will not have direct reports but will influence and direct activities of a team related to special initiatives or operations. Provides input on staffing, budget and personnel. Typically 7-10 years of systems experience.

LOB Job Description:

This job is responsible for defining and maintaining a business architecture that supports the organization's strategic process transformation objectives. Key responsibilities include translating complex operational workflows into normalized "Process Objects", aligning business needs to enterprise capabilities, maintaining process and capability taxonomies, and enabling horizontal solutions designed across business functions. The Senior Architect facilitates a translation layer between operational subject matter experts, process intelligence teams, enterprise architecture, and technology partners, ensuring business requirements are articulated independently of the systems currently used to execute them.

Job expectations include working across business, operations, technology, and transformation teams to evaluate operational needs, identify reusable capability patterns, develop enterprise process intelligence assets, and support future-state solution design. The role requires balancing operational fluency with architectural literacy while remaining neutral to specific technologies, platforms, or implementation.

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

• Defines, governs, and maintains "Process Objects" and related operational architecture artifacts, ensuring consistent representation of core business capabilities across products, processes, and functions

• 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 process design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any procedural/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 facilitate the alignment of business needs and technical capabilities 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)

• Elevates cross-functional process patterns and identifies opportunities for capability reuse, standardization, simplification, and horizontal solution design.

Required Qualifications:

• Defines and maintains Business Objects

• process integration, operations, or technology enablement

• Experience collaborating well and influencing senior executives

• Background in agile delivery and software testing

• Ability to communicate fluently across business and technology domains

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking

• Strategic 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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40