Senior Solutions Architect, Financial Services & Payments
Overview
You will own end-to-end solution architecture for Bank of America's payments and financial networks, designing systems that handle billions in daily transactions. You will bridge business needs and technical implementation, ensuring scalability, security, and performance across complex distributed environments. Working closely with engineering, product, and enterprise architecture teams, you will shape the technical roadmap for payments innovation. This role stands out for its direct impact on financial services technology and the opportunity to drive cloud adoption at scale.
What You'll Do9
- 1Translate business requirements into solution architecture for programs and projects, aligning with enterprise standards.
- 2Lead feasibility and impact analysis for proposed solutions, presenting trade-offs to stakeholders.
- 3Create architecture artifacts including Initial Design Approach (IDeA/POV), Solution Architecture Document (SAD), Data Flow Diagrams (DFD), and Threat Models.
- 4Drive technical guidance throughout the solution lifecycle, from ideation to delivery.
- 5Support Agile planning, estimation, and readiness assessments for delivery teams.
- 6Enforce compliance with security, governance, and cloud standards across all designs.
- 7Advise on technology platforms, integration patterns, and best practices for payments and financial networks.
- 8Collaborate with business stakeholders to capture and validate requirements for distributed systems.
- 9Evaluate and recommend cloud services and integration approaches for ACH, RTP, and card networks.
Requirements9
- 110+ years of IT experience, with a focus on architecture or engineering.
- 25+ years in financial services industry, with exposure to payments or banking.
- 33+ years of experience in integration services programming and architecture.
- 42+ years proven experience delivering innovative trends in payments or financial networks, with specific examples.
- 5Working knowledge of payments data/object/service models and HSMs and security models.
- 6Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure or AWS) and governance practices.
- 7Knowledge of network integration with third-party networks including ACH, RTP, and card networks.
- 8Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and frameworks.
- 9Expertise in designing complex, distributed systems and creating architectural artifacts.
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