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Bank of America Corporation

Architect

Bank of America Corporation, Richmond, VA


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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. 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

1. Accountable for solution design artifacts and application story review.

2. Responsible for providing technical leadership for current and future state architecture and integration designs in support of project and enterprise requirements.

3. Conducting structured analyses for technological solutions applicable to investment, commercial and consumer banking applications.

4. Preparing presentation materials for meetings and communicating with internal clients on a regular basis. Communication skills to enable solution adoption across disparate audiences from senior business leaders to application developers and infrastructure engineers

5. Demonstrating project leadership skills and technical leadership skills applied in a high volume, high availability and fast paced environment and be able to overcome obstacles through collaboration, research/ testing and communication.

6. Evaluating and provisioning infrastructure components in support of database upgrades, program implementations and required reporting.

7. Using mainframe z/OS utilities, JCL, TSO, ISPF, REXX, and COBOL to support and enhance source and object modifications in support of modernizing the domainDomain artifact creation

8. Partnering with business, product, and technology teams (storage, capacity planning, systems, hardware, etc.) to analyze database architecture.

9. Utilizing ITSM BMC REMEDY to support Change, Incident and Problem management processes

Domain includes -Deposits, Credit Card, Wealth Banking, Cash Servicing, Check Processing and Referrals.

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


Required Skills
  • 5-7 years of applicable experience
  • Cross Domain Solution Design
  • Architecture Artifact Creation
  • Mainframe and Midrange technologies
  • MS 365 Office Suite of applications


Desired Skills
  • Leadership and management skill to be a candidate for leading the architecture team in the future
  • Information Security expertise to aid in addressing vulnerabilities and proactive secure designs

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