Senior Engineer- Technical Architecture

Bank of America • Pennington, AL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

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. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. 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 and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery. Position Summary: We are seeking a Senior Engineer – Technical Architecture to lead large‑scale architecture initiatives focused on resiliency, scalability, reliability, and business continuity (BCP/DR). You will define end‑to‑end target architectures, drive modernization (re‑architecture and re‑platforming) to cloud‑native, microservices‑based solutions, and guide multi‑team delivery across Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure. The ideal candidate blends deep hands‑on engineering with architectural leadership, navigating governance and risk processes while accelerating business outcomes. How You’ll Work: Architecture Artifacts: reference architectures, ADRs, threat models, NFR catalogs, runbooks, test plans for failover and game days. Collaboration: partner with product, SRE, platform, and security to align roadmaps, budgets, and success metrics. Standards & Enablement: define enterprise standards and golden paths; accelerate adoption through templates, automation, and coaching. Responsibilities: Architecture Ownership & Strategy: - Define target and transition architectures for complex distributed systems with a strong focus on high availability across multiple regions, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation. - Lead modernization efforts—including re‑architecture and re‑platforming—toward microservices and containerized workloads on EKS and AKS, establishing platform guardrails, golden paths, and reusable patterns. - Translate business objectives into clear non‑functional requirements and system quality attributes such as RPO/RTO, SLO/SLI/SLA, capacity, latency, and MTTR, ensuring expectations are properly engineered, validated, and measured throughout the lifecycle. Resiliency, Reliability & BCP (Never Down): - Architect and validate comprehensive business‑continuity and disaster‑recovery strategies—including active‑active, active‑passive, pilot‑light, and warm or cold standby models—along with automated failover, data replication, and region‑evacuation runbooks. - Institutionalize resilience practices such as chaos engineering, game days, fault‑injection, and failure‑mode analysis, partnering with SRE teams to define and maintain error budgets. - Drive incident‑ready architecture by ensuring full observability across logs, metrics, and traces, supported by synthetic monitoring and automated rollback or containment mechanisms. Cloud, Platform & Tooling: - Design secure, scalable foundations across Kubernetes‑based platforms and major cloud providers, including AWS (VPC, ALB/NLB, EC2, EKS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Route 53, KMS) and Azure (VNet, App Gateway, VMSS, AKS, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, Key Vault). - Establish standards for container platforms—Kubernetes, Helm, Operators, OPA admission controls, service mesh—along with CI/CD practices such as blue/green, canary, and progressive delivery, supported by Terraform IaC and GitOps workflows. - Promote event‑driven and streaming architectures using Kafka and managed equivalents, while shaping API strategy through gateway patterns, versioning, throttling, and modern integration approaches. - Guide multi‑team architecture execution by developing roadmaps, decomposing features, and sequencing dependencies to optimize throughput and reduce risk. - Partner with Security, Risk, and Compliance to ensure secure‑by‑design outcomes, while coaching engineering teams, building communities of practice, and elevating SDLC maturity and engineering excellence. Cost & Performance: - Optimize for performance, efficiency, and sustainability through right‑sizing, autoscaling, caching/CDN, capacity planning, and FinOps guardrails (cost per transaction, workload budgets).

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in large‑scale technical/solution architecture leading complex, multi‑team initiatives.
• Proven leadership of re‑architecture / re‑platform programs to cloud‑native microservices on Kubernetes across AWS and/or Azure.
• Deep expertise in resiliency engineering (HA, DR/BCP design, RPO/RTO trade‑offs), reliability/SRE practices (SLI/SLO, error budgets), and scalability for high‑throughput, low‑latency systems.
• Hands‑on with container orchestration (EKS/AKS), IaC (Terraform), CI/CD and progressive delivery, service mesh, distributed caching, relational/NoSQL databases, messaging/streaming (e.g., Kafka).
• Strong experience establishing observability (OpenTelemetry/ Prometheus/ Grafana), incident management/RCAs, and automated resilience testing.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication; ability to translate architecture decisions into business value and guide teams through risk/ governance processes.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing multi‑region active‑active architectures and global routing (Anycast/DNS‑based, health probes).
• Security architecture depth: identity & access, workload identity, secrets management (KMS/Key Vault), network segmentation/zero‑trust, policy as code (OPA/Gatekeeper).
• Background in event‑driven and CQRS/Saga patterns; data replication/ consistency trade‑offs in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering toolchains, disaster recovery automation, compliance frameworks, and regulated environments.
• Exposure to cost optimization/FinOps practices and capacity modeling.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS/EE or equivalent experience; relevant certifications (AWS/Azure Architect, CKA/CKAD) a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define target and transition architectures for complex distributed systems with a strong focus on high availability across multiple regions, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation.
• Lead modernization efforts—including re‑architecture and re‑platforming—toward microservices and containerized workloads on EKS and AKS, establishing platform guardrails, golden paths, and reusable patterns.
• Translate business objectives into clear non‑functional requirements and system quality attributes such as RPO/RTO, SLO/SLI/SLA, capacity, latency, and MTTR, ensuring expectations are properly engineered, validated, and measured throughout the lifecycle.
• Architect and validate comprehensive business‑continuity and disaster‑recovery strategies—including active‑active, active‑passive, pilot‑light, and warm or cold standby models—along with automated failover, data replication, and region‑evacuation runbooks.
• Institutionalize resilience practices such as chaos engineering, game days, fault‑injection, and failure‑mode analysis, partnering with SRE teams to define and maintain error budgets.
• Drive incident‑ready architecture by ensuring full observability across logs, metrics, and traces, supported by synthetic monitoring and automated rollback or containment mechanisms.
• Design secure, scalable foundations across Kubernetes‑based platforms and major cloud providers, including AWS (VPC, ALB/NLB, EC2, EKS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Route 53, KMS) and Azure (VNet, App Gateway, VMSS, AKS, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, Key Vault).
• Establish standards for container platforms—Kubernetes, Helm, Operators, OPA admission controls, service mesh—along with CI/CD practices such as blue/green, canary, and progressive delivery, supported by Terraform IaC and GitOps workflows.
• Promote event‑driven and streaming architectures using Kafka and managed equivalents, while shaping API strategy through gateway patterns, versioning, throttling, and modern integration approaches.
• Guide multi‑team architecture execution by developing roadmaps, decomposing features, and sequencing dependencies to optimize throughput and reduce risk.
• Partner with Security, Risk, and Compliance to ensure secure‑by‑design outcomes, while coaching engineering teams, building communities of practice, and elevating SDLC maturity and engineering excellence.
• Optimize for performance, efficiency, and sustainability through right‑sizing, autoscaling, caching/CDN, capacity planning, and FinOps guardrails (cost per transaction, workload budgets).

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level