Mainframe Senior Storage Architect

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · Chandler, AZ

This role is for a Mainframe Senior Storage Architect at Bank of America, responsible for defining architectural vision, designing solutions, and setting strategy for mainframe storage environments, including disk, engineering, and virtual tape. The position requires extensive experience in storage architecture, encryption, FICON, I/O performance, SAN replication, and disaster recovery planning.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
  4. 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
  5. Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions

Skills

Required

  • Mainframe Storage Architecture
  • Encryption
  • Fiber protocols and configuration
  • FICON
  • HCD/IOCP
  • I/O Performance (DASD, Switches, Virtual Tape)
  • Refreshes/upgrades (inclusive of Brocade directors/switches, Hitachi DASD, and IBM Virtual Tape (TS7700s))
  • Storage Area Network (SAN) replication design and configuration
  • Capacity (inclusive of network/switches)
  • Cost benefit analysis/consolidation/reduction
  • Design and Planning of Data Center Moves
  • Disaster Recovery Exercises

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • Mainframe Storage