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Application Architect

AT Merrill
Merrill

Application Architect

Plano, TX

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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy, technology, and platform choices. Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts, determining the primary systems/sub-systems and their interfaces, and assisting with end-to-end solution design. Job expectations include defining non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by working with stakeholders and service providers. Critical for the cloud implementation project - 25 apps to be migrated in 2024 and can't delay the timeline; there are 60 apps to be migrated in 2025.

Utilize end to end web application development using Angular, Node and Spring Framework

Responsibilities:

  • Consults with the business and operations to identify and understand challenges and opportunities to improve the use and effectiveness of technology, find creative solutions through knowledge of the domain, practical experiments, and Proof of Concepts, and aligns the solution intent and architectural vision to an evolving backlog of technology change
  • Works with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features
  • Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
  • Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements and ensures architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt easily
  • Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
  • Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design for the development teams to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
  • Utilizes the defined best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs and suggests improvements to best practices and templates

Required Qualifications:

  • 10+ years hands on experience for end-to-end web application development in using Angular, Node and Spring Framework.
  • 5+ years hands on experience for Backend web development in Java.
  • 5+ years intermediate level Java/J2EE experience.
  • Strong knowledge in database structure.
  • Hands on experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and other front-end web technologies.
  • Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Oracle, and MongoDb Database experience
  • Understanding of development process: development, testing, and deployment as well as work breakdown, dependencies, responsibilities.
  • Experience running and documenting effective meetings.
  • Attention to detail, and verbal and written communications for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to make an executive presentation and communicate technical ideas to non-technical audiences.
  • Intermediate level Java/J2EE experience, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and other front-end web technologies.

Desired Qualifications:

  • JWT, MongoDB, Redis, and other back-end web technologies
  • Previous experience on NLP development is a big plus.

Skills:

  • Analytical Thinking
  • Architecture
  • Result Orientation
  • Solution Design
  • Technical Strategy Development
  • Application Development
  • Collaboration
  • Data Management

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Client-provided location(s): Plano, TX, USA
Job ID: Merrill-JR-24037804
Employment Type: Full Time