Job Summary:
Bank of America is dedicated to making financial lives better through every connection. The Senior Architect Cloud & SaaS role is responsible for defining architectural visions and solutions that support the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services, focusing on network security architecture for cloud platforms and SaaS consumption.
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
• The Senior Architect – Cloud & SaaS defines secure design patterns and reference architectures across Public and Private Hybrid environments and multi-tenant SaaS services.
• The role drives zero trust aligned access architectures and ensure cloud services are consumed securely, efficiently, and consistently.
• Standardize architectures for secure cloud and SaaS enablement, security patterns for access, identity, workload protection, and cloud native controls.
• Design authority across programs including application migration, platform modernization and SaaS onboarding. Reusable frameworks for policy enforcement, observability, and risk management
• Partners with global information security, cloud engineering, application teams and product stakeholders to align designs with strategy.
• Provides thought leadership, influences product direction, and ensures adoption of approved patterns.
• Acts as mentor to engineering and security teams, embedding “secure by design” principles across delivery.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of progressive IT experience, with 7+ years in architecture or senior engineering roles designing enterprise-scale systems
• 5+ years of hands-on cloud architecture experience in at least one major public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
• Demonstrated experience designing large-scale, highly available, secure, and resilient platforms supporting mission‑critical workloads
• Proven experience working in regulated environments (financial services, banking, insurance, healthcare, or similar)
• Track record of influencing architecture decisions across multiple lines of business or platforms
• SaaS platform integration, including vendor evaluation, onboarding, and lifecycle management
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)
• Container platforms and orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, ECS/AKS/GKE)
• Cloud networking (VPC/VNet design, segmentation, routing, private connectivity)
• Experience defining reference architectures, design patterns, and guardrails for cloud and SaaS consumption
• Must have hands on experience Identity and Access Management (IAM, RBAC, federation, SSO)
• Proven ability to act as a technical authority and advisor for senior engineering leaders and executives
Company:
Bank of America is a financial institution that offers credit cards, home loans, and auto loan services. Founded in 1998, the company is headquartered in Charlotte, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.