Data Strategy Solutions Architect

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. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

Global Risk Management (GRM) leads bank-wide initiatives for management of all aspects of risk, including strategic, market, credit, compliance, liquidity, operational, model and reputational risk matters to support sustainable, profitable corporate growth.
In a data driven economy, strategic data asset management is foundational to add to the enterprise value. Within GRM, we have established the Data Strategy & Management (DSM) function. A key pillar of this function is a strong data management, data architecture and data platforms foundation.

Under the GRM DSM Executive’s leadership, the Data Strategy Solutions Architect will evaluate the existing GRM data architecture and design solutions to simplify and optimize the data environment. The Data Strategy Solutions Architect will also be accountable for contributing to the architecture for Risk Data and Reporting Platform which will enable Data Management and Reporting capabilities for risk line of businesses. Additionally, the architect will also evaluate data tools and conduct Proof of Concepts to arrive at recommended solutions and develop remediation plans to implement those solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates knowledge of data solutions, data platforms, data management & governance practices and standards
• Uses architecture tools to create design artifacts, including but not limited to Data models/architecture, API design and data solutions architecture.
• Leads strategy & architecture for one or more data management products such as Data Catalog, Data Lineage, Data Feeds Registry, Data Quality and related data services.
• Design data products to provide high quality data for quantitative modeling solutions for GRM.
• Applies knowledge to perform regular assessments of the health and maturity of data & information capabilities for the Global Risk Management (GRM) domain.
• Evangelize and design new data solutions and capabilities to support risk lines of businesses.
• Participates in efforts to define the mission, goals, critical success factors, principles, and procedures for data strategy and information architecture.
• Participates in building the business cases required to secure approval and funding for the Data and Analytical efforts.
• Understands the end-to-end change impact by managing linkages from information capabilities to technical assets (operational + analytical)
• Maintains integrated logical data models and data flows to understand data and its interdependencies regardless of its usage pattern.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science / engineering, Data Science or Analytics and 6+ years of experience in data platform/solutions and data management architecture; or if Master’s degree, 5+ years’ experience.
• Strong experience driving the design and development of data solutions, data management & governance products as well as data and reporting platforms.
• Expertise in architecting complex design patterns, microservices, API design, data warehouse and data lakes and data pipelines.
• Ability to drive data strategy and deep understanding of industry paradigms such as data mesh, data contracts, integration fabric etc.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL data stores and big data environments.
• Hands-on expertise with data technologies and computing frameworks including but not limited to, Python, Spark, Airflow, Javascript and SQL.
• Ability to research new data technologies, architect novel data solutions for business problems and prove design approach through hands-on prototyping.
• Experience with data modeling for complex data pipelines, data lake and data platforms.
• Strong experience with data management platform such as Collibra (preferred) or understanding of open-source frameworks such as Apache Atlas, Amundsen, Datahub, Marquez etc.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.

Desired Skills:

• Working knowledge of data storage layers / formats such as Apache Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake etc. as well as Parquet, JSON and Avro.
• Experience with Graph processing and storage technologies such as Knowledge Graphs / Property Graphs with working knowledge of at-least one graph store such as TigerGraph (preferred).
• Exposure to Linked Data / Open Data, and GenAI based data solutions is a plus.

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