Architect - Platform Strategy - Migration and Modernization

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · Pennington

This role 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. Responsible for supporting architectural vision, with various focus in Scalability, Cloud Migration, Application Modernization and domain-driven design.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. Works with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features
  3. 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)
  4. 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
  5. Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions

Skills

Required

  • 8+ yrs experience
  • Strong logical design skills
  • Good relationship management and influence skills
  • Experience driving standards adoption.

Nice to have

  • Background in .NET and/or Java
  • Experience with container development in OpenShift, Bitbucket, Jenkins
  • Familiarity with agile environment.

What the JD emphasized

  • architectural vision
  • enterprise architecture strategy
  • technology and platform choices
  • solution design
  • non-functional requirements
  • architectural runway
  • Scalability
  • Cloud Migration
  • Application Modernization
  • domain-driven design