Bank Of America Senior Architect 

United States, Texas, Plano 

7442457

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap.

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
• 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 design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any 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 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)

• Serves as an internal senior trusted advisor providing security consulting services across multiple project teams, to provide advice on data security

• Assists with compensating control alternatives where security requirements cannot be met.

• Integrates efforts and extensively collaborates with Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to move with greater speed and data accuracy

• Promotes and fosters collaboration and standardization across multiple internal technology groups based on common technology interests and priorities

• Establishes and maintains a repository of reference architectures, deploys data best practices and lessons learned to drive efficient business development initiatives and continuously explore ways to shorten time to production

• Monitors emerging business and cybersecurity trends and proactively identify emerging cybersecurity use cases and drive innovation opportunities

• Identifies teams needed based on the proposed data solution

• Works with the Project Manager, Engineer, technical application leads and Functional/Business Analysts to develop a high-level project schedule, resource plan for the project, and project costs

• Applies technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization data roadmap

• Collaborates with other Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise data solutions

• Determines security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements

• Develop security policies, procedures, and controls to mitigate data risks and meet compliance obligations.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process

Required Qualifications:

• Security and Compliance experience – must have strong experience and understanding of data security/compliance requirements
• 5+ years’ experience in information security and/or IT risk management with a focus on security, performance and reliability
• Solid understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorization and security
• 3+ years work experience in banking or financial industry in an engineering or architecture role

Desired Qualifications:

• A degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field is highly desirable

Desired areas of Experience:

• Identity and Access Management
• Cloud Security knowledge
• Networking
• Data Security
• Data Integration
• Infrastructure Security.
• Zero Trust
• Security Tools and Monitoring.
• Knowledge of current IT risks and experience implementing security solutions

1st shift (United States of America)