Job Description:
Job Title: Senior Architect
Corporate Title: SVP
Location: Chester or Bromley
Company Overview:
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.
Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
Location Overview:
Chester: Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organization, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.
Bromley: Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.
Role Description:
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Network Software and Automation Architect who possesses a deep understanding of network engineering, software development, and automation. This role involves designing and implementing scalable network solutions, automating network deployment and operations, and leading architectural findings to provide solutions to the business and stakeholder requirements within Bank of America’s Internal Networks.
Responsibilities:
- You will be responsible for the development of software solutions for network management and automation.
- Assisting the team with debugging and troubleshooting software issues, managing and maintaining Linux servers and systems.
- Develop microservices, APIs, and service templates that define the services that we provide to our customers.
- Lead the team regarding routine system monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Ensure system security and compliance are in line with BOA best practices.
- Effectively use Jira and Confluence to manage and document work.
- Collaborate with DevOps engineers to streamline their operation and process.
- Automate repetitive tasks and workflows using Python and shell scripts within a virtual environment.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deployment automation. Deploy code to our development, QA, Staging, and Production servers using our continuous integration and deployment pipeline platform.
- Test new services to ensure they are functioning as expected using our testing framework and add new test cases to the test suite to continuously improve our quality assurance bar.
- Participate where required in the team on-call rota to support application users.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand network requirements and translate them into technical solutions that can be explained to management and team.
- Lead architectural discussions and decision-making processes related to network and automation.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for systems and processes.
- Document code and systems configurations.
What we are looking for:
- Experience as a network architect or in a similar senior-level network engineering role.
- Background in designing and implementing enterprise-level network solutions.
- Proficiency in network protocols, services, and standards (TCP/IP, BGP, VLANs, VRFs).
- Proficiency in Python programming and Linux OS (Ubuntu, CentOS).
- Experience with network automation tools (Ansible).
- Familiarity with software-defined networking (SDN) (Arista CVP, Cisco ACI).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (Terraform).
Skills that will help:
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
- Advanced certifications in Networking (CCIE, JNCIE).
- Knowledge of database systems (SQL, Nautobot).
- Arista ACE Level 5+ or Cisco DevNet S/P/E.
Benefits of working at Bank of America:
UK:
- Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.
- Competitive pension plan, life assurance, and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.
- 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
- The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, etc.
- Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders, and virtual GP services.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.
- Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.
- Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills, and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.
Bank of America:
Good conduct and sound judgment are crucial to our long-term success. It’s important that all employees in the organization understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mindset are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.
We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favorable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, color, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, and experience.
We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.
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