Vice President, Network Architect/ Architect/ Principal Architect - Apac Core Technology Infrastructure

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! Job Description: The Architect / Principal Architect for APAC, based in Singapore, will define and govern regional network architecture for highly regulated, operationally constrained and strategically important geographies. The role will act as the architecture authority for Asia-Pacific regional network patterns, balancing enterprise standards, security and automation objectives with country-specific regulatory expectations, data residency considerations, latency constraints, service availability, local market requirements and constrained infrastructure footprints. The role is part of an enduring Network Architecture function focused on modern, automated and security-first infrastructure. It will partner across network engineering, cyber security, regional technology leadership, application teams, cloud/SaaS architecture, operations and governance functions to ensure architectures are executable, supportable, resilient and aligned to enterprise strategy. Responsibilities: Regional architecture strategy: define and drive architecture strategy for complex and constrained geographies, ensuring regional solutions align with global network standards while meeting local regulatory, resiliency, latency and operational requirements. Complex geography design authority: serve as the senior technical authority for network designs in Singapore and other Asia-Pacific markets where regulatory, data residency, market access or infrastructure constraints require tailored architecture decisions. Security-first regional design: embed secure-by-design principles across regional connectivity, segmentation, internet ingress/egress, partner connectivity, remote access, branch, data centre and cloud connectivity patterns. Regulatory and control alignment: partner with risk, compliance, cyber security and governance teams to translate regional regulatory expectations and internal control requirements into practical architecture guardrails and design patterns. Resiliency and availability: architect high-availability regional network patterns that address local carrier diversity, constrained sites, market-specific failure scenarios, disaster recovery requirements and operational continuity expectations. Hybrid and cloud connectivity: define secure and scalable connectivity patterns across on-premise, public cloud, SaaS, regional hubs, transit networks and private connectivity models, with clear segmentation and traffic control principles. Simplification and modernisation: identify opportunities to reduce bespoke regional designs, rationalise legacy patterns, improve standardisation and accelerate adoption of automated, software-defined and policy-driven network services. Architecture governance: develop reference architectures, decision records, guardrails and reusable patterns that can be reviewed through architecture forums and adopted consistently by engineering and delivery teams. Cross-functional delivery enablement: work with engineering, operations, application, platfor…