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Senior Infrastructure Architects are strong H-1B visa and O-1 visa candidates. The role qualifies as a specialty occupation under USCIS guidelines, and employers across cloud, finance, and enterprise tech regularly sponsor. Expect H-1B cap-subject filings in April or cap-exempt roles year-round. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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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!
Position Summary
This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap.
This is a critical role supporting Bank of America’s efforts to build the next generation of its internal cloud platform, GEOS. The Senior Infrastructure Architect will lead the strategic modernization of the GEOS on-premise compute platform, driving the design and build cycle for resilient, scalable hosting platforms within newly established GEOS data centers.
The role establishes best practices for platform hosting, sets technical direction for custom engineering solutions and strategic vendor integrations, and remains hands-on in lab environments to validate designs and test solutions. In parallel, the architect embeds enterprise risk and control requirements into all architecture patterns, partnering closely with Cybersecurity, 2nd Line Risk, and Internal Audit to ensure compliance, resiliency, and audit readiness.
This role requires deep expertise in hyperconverged infrastructure and VMware/Nutanix virtualization, combined with disciplined risk management, to deliver a modern, secure, and well-governed on-premise infrastructure platform.
Responsibilities:
- Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
- Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
- Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
- Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
- Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
- Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products
- Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
- The Senior Infrastructure Architect will drive the strategic on-premise platform upgrade for GEOS, with deep expertise in hyper-converged infrastructure, VMware/Nutanix virtualization, and integration of compute platforms into newly established GEOS data centers.
- This role ensures that designs meet workload demands, resiliency objectives, and the automation principles.
- In addition to core engineering leadership, this architect will play a central role in risk and control alignment.
- Responsibilities include embedding required technical controls into architecture patterns, validating designs against enterprise risk frameworks, and ensuring compliance with configuration, access, segmentation, monitoring, and resiliency standards.
- The senior architect will regularly engage 2nd Line Risk, Internal Audit, and Cybersecurity to address control expectations, respond to challenges, and ensure architectural decisions withstand scrutiny.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10–15 years of progressive experience in infrastructure architecture and/or platform engineering environments.
- Deep hands-on expertise designing and modernizing on-premise infrastructure platforms, including next-generation data center builds.
- Strong architectural and implementation experience with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) platforms.
- Advanced proficiency with VMware and/or Nutanix virtualization technologies, including large-scale, production grade deployments.
- Experience integrating compute platforms into new or greenfield data center environments.
- Proven experience leading strategic platform modernization initiatives, from architecture design through build, validation, and production rollout.
- Strong understanding of resiliency, high availability, scalability, and performance requirements for enterprise workloads.
- Ability to balance engineering innovation with disciplined risk management in regulated environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across engineering, risk, and governance teams.
- Experience setting technical strategy and providing architectural leadership across multiple engineering teams.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstrated ability to define and enforce best practices, reference architectures, and design patterns for hosting platforms.
- Hands-on lab experience validating architectural designs, testing solutions, and supporting proof-of-concept efforts.
- Strong background embedding enterprise risk, security, and control requirements into infrastructure architecture.
- Experience supporting audit readiness, responding to control challenges, and ensuring architectural decisions withstand regulatory and internal scrutiny.
- Experience aligning architectures to enterprise risk frameworks, configuration standards, access controls, network segmentation, monitoring, and resiliency requirements.
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
SHIFT:
1st shift (United States of America)
HOURS PER WEEK:
40
INTRODUCTION
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!
Position Summary
This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap.
This is a critical role supporting Bank of America’s efforts to build the next generation of its internal cloud platform, GEOS. The Senior Infrastructure Architect will lead the strategic modernization of the GEOS on-premise compute platform, driving the design and build cycle for resilient, scalable hosting platforms within newly established GEOS data centers.
The role establishes best practices for platform hosting, sets technical direction for custom engineering solutions and strategic vendor integrations, and remains hands-on in lab environments to validate designs and test solutions. In parallel, the architect embeds enterprise risk and control requirements into all architecture patterns, partnering closely with Cybersecurity, 2nd Line Risk, and Internal Audit to ensure compliance, resiliency, and audit readiness.
This role requires deep expertise in hyperconverged infrastructure and VMware/Nutanix virtualization, combined with disciplined risk management, to deliver a modern, secure, and well-governed on-premise infrastructure platform.
Responsibilities:
- Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
- Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
- Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
- Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
- Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
- Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products
- Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
- The Senior Infrastructure Architect will drive the strategic on-premise platform upgrade for GEOS, with deep expertise in hyper-converged infrastructure, VMware/Nutanix virtualization, and integration of compute platforms into newly established GEOS data centers.
- This role ensures that designs meet workload demands, resiliency objectives, and the automation principles.
- In addition to core engineering leadership, this architect will play a central role in risk and control alignment.
- Responsibilities include embedding required technical controls into architecture patterns, validating designs against enterprise risk frameworks, and ensuring compliance with configuration, access, segmentation, monitoring, and resiliency standards.
- The senior architect will regularly engage 2nd Line Risk, Internal Audit, and Cybersecurity to address control expectations, respond to challenges, and ensure architectural decisions withstand scrutiny.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10–15 years of progressive experience in infrastructure architecture and/or platform engineering environments.
- Deep hands-on expertise designing and modernizing on-premise infrastructure platforms, including next-generation data center builds.
- Strong architectural and implementation experience with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) platforms.
- Advanced proficiency with VMware and/or Nutanix virtualization technologies, including large-scale, production grade deployments.
- Experience integrating compute platforms into new or greenfield data center environments.
- Proven experience leading strategic platform modernization initiatives, from architecture design through build, validation, and production rollout.
- Strong understanding of resiliency, high availability, scalability, and performance requirements for enterprise workloads.
- Ability to balance engineering innovation with disciplined risk management in regulated environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across engineering, risk, and governance teams.
- Experience setting technical strategy and providing architectural leadership across multiple engineering teams.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstrated ability to define and enforce best practices, reference architectures, and design patterns for hosting platforms.
- Hands-on lab experience validating architectural designs, testing solutions, and supporting proof-of-concept efforts.
- Strong background embedding enterprise risk, security, and control requirements into infrastructure architecture.
- Experience supporting audit readiness, responding to control challenges, and ensuring architectural decisions withstand regulatory and internal scrutiny.
- Experience aligning architectures to enterprise risk frameworks, configuration standards, access controls, network segmentation, monitoring, and resiliency requirements.
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
SHIFT:
1st shift (United States of America)
HOURS PER WEEK:
40
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Senior Infrastructure Architect Jobs
Target cap-exempt employers first
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government-affiliated organizations can file H-1B petitions year-round without waiting for the April lottery. Senior infrastructure roles exist at these organizations and offer a faster, more predictable path to status.
Position yourself for O-1A consideration
If you've led enterprise-scale migrations, published architecture standards, or received industry recognition, an O-1A may be viable. It bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely and suits architects with a documented record of exceptional technical contributions.
Align your job description to specialty occupation criteria
USCIS scrutinizes whether a role genuinely requires a specific bachelor's degree or higher. Infrastructure architecture tied to cloud platforms, enterprise systems, or security frameworks with a required CS or engineering degree strengthens the specialty occupation argument significantly.
Document your degree equivalency early
If your bachelor's degree is from outside the U.S. or in a related but non-identical field, get a credential evaluation before the employer files. A strong evaluation from a NACES-member agency removes a common H-1B petition risk before it becomes a problem.
Engage employers before the March H-1B registration window
H-1B registration opens in early March and closes within days. If you're targeting cap-subject roles, your offer letter and employer relationship need to be in place before then. Starting conversations in January gives both sides adequate preparation time.
Use L-1A as a transfer pathway if you're already overseas
If you've worked for a multinational employer abroad for at least one year in a managerial or executive capacity, an L-1A intracompany transfer may apply. Senior architects who manage teams or oversee infrastructure programs often meet the functional manager standard.
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Find Senior Infrastructure Architect JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Infrastructure Architect role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes. Senior Infrastructure Architect is consistently approved as a specialty occupation under H-1B guidelines. USCIS expects the role to require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a closely related engineering field. Job postings that list a specific degree as required, rather than preferred, produce the strongest petitions. Avoid postings where any bachelor's degree is accepted regardless of field, as those rarely survive USCIS scrutiny.
Which visa categories are most common for infrastructure architects seeking sponsorship?
H-1B is the most common pathway for cap-subject employers. L-1A applies if you're transferring within a multinational company in a managerial capacity. O-1A is an option for architects with significant publications, leadership in major projects, or industry recognition. TN is available to Canadian and Mexican nationals whose architecture role maps to an eligible USMCA category such as Computer Systems Analyst or Engineer.
What degree does my employer need to document for an H-1B petition in this role?
The employer must establish that the Senior Infrastructure Architect position normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific specialty. Computer science, information technology, electrical engineering, or systems engineering are the most defensible fields. A general business or liberal arts degree won't support the petition. If your degree is in a related field, a detailed credential evaluation and a strong employer justification letter can bridge the gap for USCIS.
How likely is H-1B approval for a Senior Infrastructure Architect?
Approval rates for senior technical architecture roles are high relative to other occupations. USCIS data shows IT and computer-related specialty occupations consistently achieve approval rates above 85% when properly documented. The primary risk is a Request for Evidence challenging specialty occupation status, which usually arises when the degree requirement in the job posting is vague. Employers who work with experienced immigration counsel and write precise job descriptions rarely face denials.
Where can I find Senior Infrastructure Architect jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this. It filters job listings by sponsorship willingness, so you're not wasting time applying to roles where sponsorship isn't on the table. Senior Infrastructure Architect roles appear across cloud providers, financial institutions, healthcare networks, and large enterprise technology teams. Browse Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers actively hiring for this title.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Senior Infrastructure Architect jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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