Architect - AWS

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.

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At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for defining an 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.

Position Summary:
A Cloud Architect (AWS) is responsible for defining and implementing the cloud architecture strategy for the HPS platform. The role focuses on designing secure, scalable, highly available cloud solutions while establishing standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.

This individual will lead cloud transformation and modernization initiatives, architect Infrastructure as Code solutions, define DevSecOps and deployment patterns, and drive adoption of cloud-native capabilities. The role includes oversight of security, resiliency, disaster recovery, observability, and platform governance across development, testing, and production environments.

The Cloud Architect will partner with application, security, infrastructure, and platform teams to deliver compliant, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions while providing technical leadership and architectural guidance across the HPS portfolio.

Responsibilities:

- 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

- 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

- Architect, design, and govern secure, scalable, and resilient AWS cloud platforms using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and cloud-native services.

- Establish cloud design standards and reference architectures supporting high availability, disaster recovery, traffic management, failover, and multi-environment deployment strategies.

- Lead the implementation of security controls, vulnerability remediation, compliance requirements, and platform hardening in alignment with enterprise policies and regulatory standards.

- Develop and maintain architecture standards, operational runbooks, engineering documentation, and deployment procedures to ensure consistency and operational excellence.

Required Qualifications:

- 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or solution architecture, with demonstrated leadership in enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.

- Deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture, including VPC, Transit Gateway, EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, Route 53, CloudFront, ELB/ALB/NLB, S3, RDS, Aurora, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch, and other cloud-native services.

- Proven experience architecting and implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), including reusable module development, platform standards, state management, governance, and lifecycle management.

- Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient cloud architectures, including disaster recovery, failover, traffic routing, multi-AZ, and multi-region deployment patterns.

- Extensive knowledge of cloud security architecture, including IAM, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, compliance controls, and secure-by-design principles.

- Experience leading application modernization and cloud migration initiatives, including containerization, cloud-native architectures, microservices, and platform standardization.

- Strong experience designing and governing DevSecOps and CI/CD platforms, including automated build, testing, security scanning, approval gates, deployment automation, and release management processes.

- Strong understanding of AWS networking concepts, including VPC design, load balancing, DNS, private connectivity, security groups, network segmentation, and application connectivity patterns.

- Experience establishing cloud governance frameworks, architectural standards, reference designs, and engineering best practices in regulated environments.

- Demonstrated ability to drive platform optimization across reliability, scalability, observability, performance, security, and cost management domains.

- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across cloud infrastructure, networking, application platforms, deployment pipelines, and production operations.

- Experience working within Agile delivery models while leading multiple concurrent initiatives and influencing cross-functional teams.

- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering teams, executives, architects, and business partners.

- Ability to lead architecture reviews, provide technical governance, and make strategic technology recommendations aligned with business objectives..

Desired Qualifications:

- Experience designing and governing container platforms and container image management solutions, including Docker, ECS, EKS, image lifecycle management, and registry strategies.

- Knowledge of multi-region, disaster recovery, and business continuity architectures, including recovery objectives, failover strategies, and resiliency testing.

- Knowledge of advanced deployment and resiliency patterns, including blue/green deployments, canary releases, progressive traffic shifting, and zero-downtime deployment strategies.

- Experience architecting and operating solutions within highly regulated environments, such as financial services, healthcare, or other compliance-driven industries.

- Experience establishing vulnerability management programs, integrating security scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines, and driving remediation strategies in partnership with security and application teams.

- Familiarity with application architectures and modernization patterns across Java, Ruby, and .NET technology stacks.

- Experience leveraging automation and scripting technologies, including Python, Bash, or equivalent languages, to improve platform operations and engineering efficiency.

- Experience with observability and operational excellence practices, including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and platform health management.

- Familiarity with enterprise cloud governance, platform standardization, shared services, and cloud operating model best practices.

- AWS Professional-level certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, Security Specialty, DevOps Engineer Professional) and Terraform certifications are highly desirable.

- Experience leading architecture reviews, mentoring engineering teams, and driving adoption of cloud architecture standards and best practices.

- Strong understanding of cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and performance engineering principles.

Skills:

- Analytical 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

Pay Transparency details

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Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$105,600.00 - $165,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. 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; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. 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.