Senior Solution Architect

Bank of America

. Defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services .

Posted 5/6/2026full-timePlano • Arizona, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudEC2Google Cloud PlatformGraphQLKubernetesOpenShiftVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services
Defining the target operating environment
Designing for client resiliency
Assisting with solution design
Defining non-functional requirements
Working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives
Evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions
Contributing to the architecture roadmap
Leading the end-to-end architecture and design of foundational platform capabilities
Governing the API Gateway platform
Architecting a patch and repave solution for compute infrastructure
Establishing immutable container and VM patterns
Delivering a metadata store and infrastructure console to provide operational, cost, and compliance transparency to customers

Requirements

What you’ll need

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)
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

affordable, competitive and flexible benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

solution architectureplatform architectureenterprise architectureAPI Gatewaycloud-native architectureCI/CDinfrastructure as codeimmutable infrastructureautomated patchingsecurity patterns

Soft Skills

stakeholder engagementstrategic thinkingpragmatic deliveryleadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsevaluative thinkingadaptability