Senior Architecture Manager

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This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.

The Bank of America Internal Networks-Transport Products networking team is responsible for the development of complex networking solutions deployable into the banks regional, international and metropolitan backbone packet and metropolitan optical transport networks. This team consists of highly motivated self-directed individuals who exceed performance expectations in a large and challenging workplace.

Responsibilities:

• Builds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectives

• Facilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skills

• Manages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are met

• Manages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organization

• Contributes to the technology strategy for their technical domain

• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

• Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders

• Perform management oversight of the Transport Products organization

• Architecture development for large complex networking solutions for new and existing networks

• Development of architectural whitepapers, product guides and standards-based documentation

Managerial Responsibilities:

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.

• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.

• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.

• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.

• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.

• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.

• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.

• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ Years of experience with Network Solutions with prior architecture and/or architecture group lead experience

• Work across the business lines, network operations and technology teams to evaluate and create architectural visions for complex technology solutions

• Prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into workload backlog using Kanban, JIRA and Agile methodologies

• Strong knowledge, configuration and trouble-shooting skills of routing protocols to include ISIS and BGP

• Must demonstrate strong experience with IP multicast, Route Reflectors, MPLS, LDP, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS/SRv6), L2VPN and L3VPN (Unicast/Multicast)

• Must have strong network security knowledge and familiarization with segmentation, virtualization, cryptography, digital certificates, secure key management and encryption protocols (TLS, IPSEC, MACSec)

• Familiarization with data center protocols such as EVPN & VXLAN

• Familiarization with optical transport technologies such as DWDM and 400G/800G-ZR/ZR+.

• Knowledgeable with QoS concepts and queuing strategies, experience with QoS configurations, diagnosing and tuning of QoS and performing bandwidth analysis

• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills in a complex multi-layered network environment

• Excellent customer service skills including reporting, organization, written and oral communication and task prioritization

• Cisco CCNA/CCNP/CCIE routing certifications or equivalent work experience required

Desired Qualifications:

• Architecture experience within a large service provider

• Strong program management skills necessary to lead multi-discipline technology teams

• Strong executive leadership communications skills

Minimum Education Requirement : BA or BS in Telecommunications, Data Communications or Computer Science.

Skills:

• Influence

• Risk Management

• Solution Design

• Stakeholder Management

• Technical Strategy Development

• Analytical Thinking

• Application Development

• Collaboration

• Result Orientation

• Solution Delivery Process

• Agile Practices

• Architecture

• Automation

• Data Management

• DevOps Practices

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