Senior Architect

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Chandler, AZ, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services • Data Privacy
The Role
Design and deliver DMZ and cloud networking architectures (SASE, SDWAN, VPN) ensuring security, resiliency, and compliance. Lead solution design, create HLD/LLD, guide stakeholders, run POCs, troubleshoot multivendor environments, and contribute to architecture roadmaps and automation.
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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!

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.

DMZ Architect

Technical DMZ network architect responsible for DMZ network project designs with focus on SASE and Cloud designs.  Also provide DMZ/Remote Access/SDWAN/Hosting/B2B/VPN Infrastructure Architecture for various LOB and B2B customers across various DMZ Zones including creation of network level HLD and LLD designs and solution delivery.

Assess design submissions for security compliance against baselines. Shepard requestors through technical challenges until designs are complete. Act in a liaison role between Global Information Security and as an escalation point for engineering / operations.

Self-starter who can lead projects.  Must be able to troubleshoot multivendor solutions in lab or POC environments.  Manage assigned networking projects, program components and deployments to deliver services in accordance with established company objectives.  Maintain a thorough understanding of Network Infrastructure, IPv4/v6, IP Routing, DNS, Security, HTTP(S), VPN, and Network Monitoring tools.

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)

  • Contribute to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined technology domains in support of the product roadmap

  • Contribute to the development of best practices including standardized templates

  • Work across business and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for large complex solutions and evolve it based on an emerging requirements

  • Lead rapid shaping of a high-level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements; ensure architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt easily

  • Support the Principal Engineer as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and help select preferred technology products

Required Qualifications:

  • 10+ years industry experience with technology domain experience

  • Experience integrating solutions with Cloud provider environments such as MS Azure, AWS, Google, IBM

  • Strong understanding of network security architecture and traffic segmentation

  • Working knowledge of public cloud networking concepts within GCP, AWS, and Azure environments

  • Must have solid routing, switching, Arista, Cisco Nexus, Firepower/ASA, Fortinet router and DMZ/ISP experience

  • Solid understanding of TCP/IP concepts, SDN, OSPF, BGP, VLAN, IPSEC, ISAKMP, PKI, QOS, Multicast, trunking/port-channeling, VRRP, FHRP protocols, enterprise level MPLS, VDC, flavors of VPC, SDN

  • Ability to utilize DDoS tools like Arbor and Prolexic/Akamai & F5/Silverline for mitigations to include Application layer, TCP state table and Bandwidth DDoS threats

  • Familiar with best practices to install and deploy various Arista & Cisco routing and switching platforms such as ISR, ASR, Catalyst and Nexus

  • Experience with large scale, complex network/DMZ environments and Authentication mechanisms (e.g. Active Directory, Ping federate) Experience with scripting languages

Desired Qualifications:

Experience integrating enterprise networks with:

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  • AWS

  • Microsoft Azure

Understanding of cloud connectivity services such as:

  • Cloud Interconnect

  • Direct Connect

  • ExpressRoute

Desired Qualifications:(con't)

  • Site-to-site VPN architectures

  • Experience test tools including Quali Cloud Shell, and Viavi Tera VM

  • General experience with security technologies, such as firewalls, intrusion detection, threat mitigation

  • Exposure to EOS and IOS-XR routing

  • IPv6 Knowledge/experience to support certification testing of IPv6 capabilities

  • Experience with automation and development of automation scripts

  • Python experience

  • Experience with automation skills/tools such as:  Arista CloudVision, Terraform, Ansible, Netconf, YANG

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

Skills Required

  • 10+ years industry experience with technology domain experience
  • Experience integrating solutions with Cloud providers such as MS Azure, AWS, Google, IBM
  • Strong understanding of network security architecture and traffic segmentation
  • Working knowledge of public cloud networking concepts within GCP, AWS, and Azure
  • Solid routing, switching, Arista, Cisco Nexus, Firepower/ASA, Fortinet router and DMZ/ISP experience
  • Solid understanding of TCP/IP, SDN, OSPF, BGP, VLAN, IPSEC, ISAKMP, PKI, QOS, Multicast, trunking/port-channeling, VRRP, FHRP, enterprise MPLS, VDC, VPC
  • Ability to utilize DDoS tools like Arbor and Prolexic/Akamai and F5/Silverline for mitigation
  • Familiarity with installation/deployment of Arista and Cisco platforms (ISR, ASR, Catalyst, Nexus)
  • Experience with large scale, complex network/DMZ environments and authentication mechanisms (Active Directory, PingFederate)
  • Experience with scripting languages for automation and troubleshooting
  • Experience integrating enterprise networks with GCP, AWS, Microsoft Azure
  • Understanding of cloud connectivity services (Cloud Interconnect, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute)
  • Site-to-site VPN architecture experience
  • Experience with test tools including Quali Cloud Shell and Viavi Tera VM
  • General experience with security technologies (firewalls, IDS, threat mitigation)
  • Exposure to EOS and IOS-XR routing
  • IPv6 knowledge/experience
  • Experience with automation and development of automation scripts
  • Python experience
  • Experience with automation/tools: Arista CloudVision, Terraform, Ansible, Netconf, YANG

Bank of America Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Bank of America and has not been reviewed or approved by Bank of America.

  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, vision, virtual care via Teladoc, wellness programs, and specialized support for cancer and menopause. Wellness credits and an always‑on EAP with in‑person sessions add to the depth of care.
  • Parental & Family Support New parents can access up to 26 weeks of leave, including 16 weeks fully paid for eligible teammates, alongside back‑up child and adult care. Family‑building resources and reimbursements (e.g., fertility, adoption, surrogacy) and a dedicated Life Event Services team extend support across life stages.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility Broad‑based equity through the Sharing Success program, including $1B in stock to nearly all non‑executive employees in January 2026, is intended to foster an ownership mindset. Stock awards (including RSUs) are a recurring component that aligns employees’ interests with shareholders.

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The Company
HQ: Charlotte, NC
208,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1784

What We Do

We make financial lives better for our clients and our communities through the power of every connection. Our employees are at the heart of this purpose, and are key to driving responsible growth. Every day, across the globe, our employees bring a commitment to our purpose and to driving responsible growth by living our values: deliver together, act responsibly, realize the power of our people and trust the team. A key aspect of driving responsible growth is doing so in a sustainable manner, a critical pillar of which is being a great place to work for our teammates.

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