Senior Architect

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:
Participates in the development and maintenance of a business and system architecture and conducts business information flow studies. Provides integrated systems planning and recommends new or different technologies that will enhance current systems and support overall corporate and business goals. Conducts system architecture studies of new and existing IT systems to permit development of integrated systems that operate at low cost levels. Recommends the appropriate computer platform, work stations and communication linkage required to support distributed and client server business processes and information flows. Interfaces with business areas to ensure all initiatives support business strategies and goals. Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource; routine accountability is for technical knowledge and capabilities as a team member or as an individual contributor. Will not have direct reports but will influence and direct activities of a team related to special initiatives or operations. Provides input on staffing, budget and personnel. Typically 7-10 years of systems experience.

LOB Job Description:

This job is responsible for defining and maintaining a business architecture that supports the organization's strategic process transformation objectives. Key responsibilities include translating complex operational workflows into normalized "Process Objects", aligning business needs to enterprise capabilities, maintaining process and capability taxonomies, and enabling horizontal solutions designed across business functions. The Senior Architect facilitates a translation layer between operational subject matter experts, process intelligence teams, enterprise architecture, and technology partners, ensuring business requirements are articulated independently of the systems currently used to execute them.

Job expectations include working across business, operations, technology, and transformation teams to evaluate operational needs, identify reusable capability patterns, develop enterprise process intelligence assets, and support future-state solution design. The role requires balancing operational fluency with architectural literacy while remaining neutral to specific technologies, platforms, or implementation.

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

• Defines, governs, and maintains "Process Objects" and related operational architecture artifacts, ensuring consistent representation of core business capabilities across products, processes, and functions

• 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 process design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any procedural/