Cloud Foundation Services Lead Solution Strategist

Back to search results Cloud Foundation Services Lead Solution Strategist Jersey City, New Jersey; Chandler, Arizona; Plano, Texas Additional locations Apply × To proceed with your application, you must be at least 18 years of age. Acknowledge × Bank of America employees are required to meet all posting eligibility requirements prior to applying for any new position. Acknowledge Refer a friend Apply × To proceed with your application, you must be at least 18 years of age. Acknowledge × Bank of America employees are required to meet all posting eligibility requirements prior to applying for any new position. Acknowledge 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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.Cloud Foundational Services is intended to remove non-differentiated heavy lifting for cloud service provider verticals by offering common, secure and automated platform capabilities. The Lead Solution Strategist connects this enterprise need to target-state decisions, delivery sequencing and operating-model clarity.The Lead Solution Strategist owns the strategic translation of Cloud Foundational Services requirements into an enterprise-ready roadmap, solution narrative and operating model. The role bridges architecture, engineering, product, controls, operations and cloud provider teams to define how secure hybrid-cloud capabilities should be designed, prioritized and adopted. 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.Responsibilities:Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solutionDefine the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipelineGuides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance -e.g. pairing, code reviewsProvides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program levelConducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and featuresWorks with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirementsTranslate hybrid-cloud requirements into a clear strategic roadmap, capability model and executive narrativeDefine the strategic roadmap for foundational cloud services across AWS, Azure, GCP, private cloud and Kubernetes environmentsConvert architecture requirements into consumable themes, epics, adoption patterns and decision-ready options for leadershipClarify where native cloud services should be used versus where enterprise foundational services should provide consistencyDrive platform identity and access strategy using bootstrap identity, registration, runtime verification, token exchange and least-privilege credential issuanceDefine reusable automation patterns for onboarding, infrastructure-as-code, image pipelines, service mesh, subscriptions, naming and platform user interfacesPrioritize roadmap dependencies across TFE, APEX, Landlord, service mesh, image management, controls automation, QE and FinOpsIntegrate infrastructure, network, and cloud engineeringEmbed security, reliability, and complianceLeverage AI to reduce operational toil and improve insightsRequired Qualifications:10+ years in solution strategy, cloud architecture, platform product management, infrastructure modernization or enterprise technology leadershipStrong understanding of hybrid cloud, workload identity, zero trust, IAM integration, policy deployment, logging/tracing, compliance automation and secure credential flowsExperience with Terraform Enterprise, CI/CD, Kubernetes platforms, service mesh, image factory concepts, cloud onboarding, FinOps, monitoring and quality engineeringDeep infrastructure and networking experienceExperience with control planes and distributed systemsExperience with state-machine workflow orchestrationStrong stakeholder and communication skillsDesired Qualifications:Experience with VM and container image lifecycle platformsCI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code experienceEvent-driven architecture experienceExposure to AI-driven DevOps or automationExperience in regulated enterprise environmentsSkills:AutomationInfluenceResult OrientationStakeholder ManagementTechnical Strategy DevelopmentApplication DevelopmentArchitectureBusiness AcumenRisk ManagementSolution DesignAgile PracticesAnalytical ThinkingCollaborationData ManagementSolution Delivery ProcessShift:1st shift (United States of America)Hours Per Week: 40 Learn more about this role View transcript Close transcript [Music in background throughout] On screen copy: Bank of America logo Software Engineer Software Engineer: At Bank of America, the code I write every day helps keep our systems running for millions of people. [Software Engineer writing code at his desk] As a Software Engineer, I feel like I'm on the front lines of creating what the enterprise needs to compete in the digital space - from trading apps to market systems to backend services. [Mobile banking app screens shown] That means writing code, working with the team and solving problems together. [Software Engineer working with colleagues in a meeting room] I'm part of Strategic Data Initiatives, using modern development practices, state-of-the-art frameworks, and cloud-native services to build what the business needs. The key is collaboration; whether I'm working with product managers, quality assurance, or teaming up with other designers. [Software Engineer moving sticky notes on a kanban board] From legacy systems to performance tuning, it's like our team is tackling a jigsaw puzzle, and I can take real ownership of my pieces, even when there's more than one way forward. I've got full support from mentors and leadership, which helps me develop as an engineer while gaining expertise in new tech. On screen copy: Skill Growth Career Mobility Best of all, as my skills grow, so do the opportunities to move to new teams and take on bigger responsibilities. [Software Engineer shakes hands with supervisor] And through our day-to-day practices and retrospectives, I have a chance to be part of a group that becomes more collaborative and impactful with each shared win. Plus, I'm given what I need to feel valued, with flexible work schedules, learning stipends, and programs that let me prioritize my health and wellness. On screen copy: Build relationships Build communities Build careers We all have goals. Pursue yours at Bank of America. I'm proud to be part of a team that's building the future of banking - one line of code at a time. We all have goals. Pursue yours at Bank of America. Narrator: What would you like the power to do? Bank of America. On screen copy: What would you like the power to do? Bank of America logo Learn more at careers.bankofamerica.com On screen disclosure: EOE disability/veteran. 2025 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved. MAP 8651837 Expiration Date: 06/05/2027 [End of transcript] Apply × To proceed with your application, you must be at least 18 years of age. Acknowledge × Bank of America employees are required to meet all posting eligibility requirements prior to applying for any new position. Acknowledge Refer a friend Apply × To proceed with your application, you must be at least 18 years of age. Acknowledge × Bank of America employees are required to meet all posting eligibility requirements prior to applying for any new position. Acknowledge Full time JR-26024600 Manages People: No Travel: Yes, 5% of the time Age requirement: Must at least be 18 years of age. New Jersey pay and benefits information New Jersey pay range: $122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set. Discretionary incentive eligible This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company. Benefits This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve Share: Save job Job saved