Senior Solution Architect at Bank of America in Plano, TX

Senior Solution Architect Location: Plano 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. Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. 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 that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap. Overview: The Senior Solution Architect will lead the end-to-end architecture and design of foundational platform capabilities that underpin the organization’s cloud enablement strategy. This role is responsible for defining and governing the API Gateway platform, architecting a patch and repave solution for compute infrastructure, establishing immutable container and VM patterns, and delivering a metadata store and infrastructure console to provide operational, cost, and compliance transparency to customers.  This architect will operate at the intersection of platform engineering, security, operations, and developer experience—driving architectural standards, automation, and self-service capabilities across internal and external cloud consumers. Responsibilities: 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 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 Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments 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 Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability) Required Qualifications: 10+ years of experience in solution, platform, or enterprise architecture roles Deep hands-on experience designing and operating API Gateways at scale Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code Proven experience with immutable infrastructure, image-based deployments, and automated patching or repaving strategies Expertise in security, identity, policy-as-code, and observability patterns Ability to balance architectural rigor with pragmatic delivery in complex, multi-team environments Deep knowledge of CICD practices to enable platform management provisioning & configuration activities, and policy as code Strong understanding of compute, storage, networking, identity, and secrets management across on-prem and cloud Hands-on familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP core services (IAM, VPC/VNet, EC2/VMs, Load Balancers, Key Vault/KMS) Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ingress, and internal developer platforms (IDP) API gateways, reverse proxies, DNS, certificates, routing, private endpoints, egress controls, and zero-trust patterns Proficiency with REST, event-driven APIs, GraphQL, OpenAPI/Swagger, and contract-first design; clear standards for idempotency, pagination, error codes Experience building or leveraging gateway capabilities to improve service availability and improve security standards - —including rate limiting, authN/Z, caching, logging etc Deep familiarity with OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, JWT, Scopes/Claims, and secrets rotation; strong understanding of least privilege and segmentation models API portals, documentation quality, SDK strategy, versioning discipline, postman collections, service catalogs, and golden paths Ability to lead design and architecture outcomes across multiple stakeholder teams Desired Qualifications: Experience building internal cloud platforms or private cloud enablement capabilities Strong exposure to FinOps practices and cost transparency tooling Experience extending cloud patterns into on-prem or hybrid environments Familiarity with Kubernetes, container platforms, and VM lifecycle automation 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 Additional Locations: Chandler