Architect Jersey City, New Jersey **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. 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! **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. **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 **Skills:** + Analytical Thinking + Architecture + Result Orientation + Solution Design + Technical Strategy Development + Application Development + Collaboration + Data Management + DevOps Practices + Risk Management + Agile Practices + Automation + Influence + Solution Delivery Process + Test Engineering **Required skills and qualifications** + 10+ years of experience as a Python Developer with a strong portfolio of projects. + In-depth understanding of the Quartz framework, Python software development stacks, ecosystems, frameworks and tools such as Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Dask, spaCy, NLTK, sci-kit-learn and PyTorch. + Experience with front-end development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. + Familiarity with database technologies specially Object Oriented Databases like Sandra. + Excellent problem-solving ability with solid communication and collaboration skills. **Preferred skills and qualifications** + Experience with popular Python frameworks such as Django, Flask or Pyramid. + Knowledge of data science and machine learning concepts and tools. + A working understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure. **Minimum Education Requirement:** Bachelor Degree or equivalent working experience **Shift:** 1st shift (United States of America) **Hours Per Week:** 40 **Pay Transparency details** US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525) Pay and benefits information Pay range $103,700.00 - $162,600.00 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. 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