Principal Cloud Data Architect - Data Platforms and Analytics
$156.5k - $230k/yr+ Annual discretionary award
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Charlotte, NC, USA+2 moreMore locations: Jersey City, NJ, USA | Addison, TX, USA
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Data & AnalyticsData Engineering
About the job
Requirements
- At least 12 years of experience in data or software engineering, including at least 8 years designing enterprise data platforms or large distributed architectures.
- Demonstrated leadership in cloud modernization, preferably Azure, including Databricks with Spark and Delta, Snowflake, and Kafka or Event Hubs.
- Strong background modernizing legacy systems, including Informatica ETL, Hadoop or Big Data systems, and mainframe workloads such as batch pipelines and reporting interfaces.
- Deep expertise in non-functional-requirement-driven design, including resiliency, security, performance, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python; Scala or Java is a plus.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders, drive enterprise alignment, and deliver outcomes in highly regulated environments.
- Strong communication skills for translating complex engineering concepts to executive, business, and technical audiences.
- Experience with microservices, containers such as Kubernetes or OpenShift, API gateways, and integration patterns.
- Familiarity with at least one area of engineering and ability to serve as an organizational technical reference.
Responsibilities
- Define and communicate solution intent and architectural vision across Business, Data, Application, and Technology domains.
- Build and maintain a multi-year modernization roadmap for Channels Data Platforms, including mainframe, Hadoop, ETL, and analytics components.
- Establish target operating models, architectural patterns, and guardrails that support evolving capabilities and regulatory expectations.
- Drive enterprise alignment with Enterprise Architecture, Platform Architecture, Information Governance, Risk, and Product.
- Lead transformation of Informatica, on-premises databases, Hadoop, and mainframe reporting into cloud-native architectures using Azure, Databricks/Delta, Snowflake, and Event Hubs/Kafka.
- Define migration paths for mainframe jobs, batch interfaces, and legacy ledger and reporting logic into scalable modern architectures.
- Implement CI/CD for data, infrastructure as code using Terraform or Bicep, observability with logs, metrics, and traces, and cost/performance governance.
- Ensure platform resiliency, scalability, and operational readiness, including high availability/disaster recovery, autoscaling, performance tuning, and traffic management.
- Provide end-to-end architectural oversight for Payment Tracker, including its user interface, APIs/microservices, data models, analytics layers, and dashboards.
- Guide design for real-time and near-real-time insights, data marts, and advanced analytics embedded in Payment Tracker experiences.
- Ensure adherence to non-functional requirements for performance, security, maintainability, and reliability, as well as integrated monitoring and alerting for application and data services.
- Lead design and code reviews, resolve architectural blockers, and ensure compliance with the Bank’s Risk Framework, data privacy, entitlements, masking, and audit expectations.
- Partner with delivery teams to translate strategy into actionable technical backlogs and architecture epics.
- Drive creation of reusable accelerators, libraries, templates, migration playbooks, and modernization frameworks.
- Mentor engineers and elevate engineering excellence across Channels Technology.
- Own research and development for the data and analytics portfolio by evaluating emerging tools, running proofs of concept and pilots, benchmarking performance, publishing decision records, and setting technology adoption standards.
- Develop the engineering approach for the program or portfolio solution and work with Architecture to develop, analyze, and deliver technical enablers.
- Lead planning, definition, and design of complex features spanning multiple teams, and explore solution alternatives.
- Create approaches for complex technology design and solution development.
- Lead technical oversight for teams in solution development, including design reviews and code within the role’s domain.
- Define the solution technology tool stack within internally approved and supported technologies.
- Explore state-of-the-art technologies to improve development efficiency, test/QA coverage, and release management.
- Lead and own end-to-end test strategy, creation, and adherence, and integration between teams for a program or portfolio solution.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in Payments, Channels, CashPro, or analytics-driven applications.
- Knowledge of semantic layers such as dbt and LookML, data quality frameworks such as Great Expectations and Deequ, and data governance tools such as Purview and Collibra.
- FinOps experience optimizing costs for cloud data workloads.
- Advanced understanding of streaming, event-driven architectures, and machine learning/artificial intelligence integration.
- Scala or Java experience.
About the company
Bank of America runs one of the largest US banks, serving consumers, small businesses, wealthy families, corporations and institutional investors. Alongside checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and business loans, it owns the Merrill brokerage, a private bank for wealthy clients and a global investment bank that advises on deals and trades stocks and bonds. Customers reach it through thousands of branches and ATMs and its mobile banking app. It earns money mainly from the gap between what it charges on loans and pays on deposits, plus fees from advice, asset management, deal work and trading. It grew from a San Francisco bank founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Charlotte, North Carolina
Founded
1904
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Profits are climbing: net income rose 27% to $9.1 billion in the June 2026 quarter on trading and dealmaking.
- Tech careers have budget behind them: $4 billion of Bank of America's $13 billion yearly tech spend funds new initiatives.
- Cheap funding cushions profits: $530 billion of its $2.03 trillion in deposits paid no interest at June 2026.
What critics are saying
- Falling rates pinch lending profit: lower rates partly offset its 9% rise in interest income in the June 2026 quarter.
- AI is reshaping jobs: over 200,000 employees use AI tools, sending 400,000-plus prompts daily as of July 2026.
- Succession remains open: CEO Brian Moynihan plans to stay through decade's end after a December 2025 executive shake-up.
What makes Bank of America unique
- Small firms bank here: it serves 4 million small businesses and calls itself the top US small business lender.
- Wealth management is a second engine: Merrill, its brokerage, and the Private Bank oversee about $4.9 trillion in client balances.
- Customers use its chatbot at scale: virtual assistant Erica has logged over 3 billion client interactions since 2018.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Options
- Professional Development Budget
- Conference Attendance Budget