Bank of America Corporation

Technology Executive - Senior AI Platform

Bank of America Corporation$150K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in senior enterprise technology leadership, preferably at the SVP/Managing Director level.
  • Direct experience in managing enterprise AI platforms and related architectures.
  • Familiarity with operating in highly regulated environments and adhering to risk controls.
  • Strong executive communication skills across various stakeholders.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics & Information Systems, or related field.

Responsibilities

  • Manage relationships with business and technology executives to ensure strategic alignment and performance.
  • Create a conducive working environment by addressing impediments and enhancing processes.
  • Conduct financial management activities and track strategic outcomes aligned to portfolio strategy.
  • Facilitate performance reviews and coaching to develop team competencies and skills.
  • Establish a culture of compliance, ensuring adherence to applicable policies and standards.
  • Ensure execution alignment with portfolio strategy through collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Oversee procurement and vendor evaluations for technical products and services.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional learning and growth.
  • Inclusive workplace culture promoting diversity.
  • Commitment to employee wellness, encompassing physical, emotional, and financial aspects.
  • Recognition and rewards for performance.
  • In-office culture with flexibility based on role requirements.
Full Job Description
Job Description:

This job is responsible for building and leading an organization to deliver technology products and services that meet strategic business outcomes. Key responsibilities include enabling the portfolio strategy by setting strategic technology outcomes, creating a resource and people development strategy, managing the financial and resource plan, advocating and advancing organizational agility, improving end-to-end processes, and promoting learning and improvement. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, and driving leadership succession planning and development of employees.

Developer Experience (DevEx) provides enterprise technical standards and common technical services, platforms, and tools that are leveraged by delivery teams across all BofA lines of business. We lead the solution design of those common services, platforms, and tools within our portfolio. With a strong sense of ownership for both personal deliverables and value stream goals, we perform role functions including:
  • Improve the experience for our developers, making it easier to deliver industry-leading solutions, while managing work efficiently and with the right controls
  • Advance our technology platforms through innovation
  • Reduce risk and improve quality across our technology portfolio by aligning to a single enterprise architecture strategy and delivering governance that enables consistency, integration and automation


We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior AI Platform Technology Executive to lead the strategy, delivery, and governance of our enterprise-wide AI and generative AI platforms and agents. As one of the world's largest and most regulated financial institutions, we are rapidly scaling the use of AI across thousands of applications, employees, and business processes. This executive will be responsible for building and operating enterprise-grade AI capabilities, establishing robust governance, and ensuring safe, compliant, and value-driven adoption of AI across all lines of business.

This role requires a visionary leader in the areas AI platforms, multi-model architectures, Copilot Studio governance, Power Platform scale, secure by design engineering, and executive stakeholder management. The ideal candidate brings both strategic and hands-on leadership experience, with proven success driving platform adoption at global scale while partnering closely with Technology, Risk, Security, Compliance, and Business Executives.

Responsibilities:

  • Manages relationships with business and technology executives/sponsors and vendors for technical products and understands the work deliverables and performance of the Technology Management team by following outcomes from business and client feedback
  • Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers by sponsoring opportunities that improve processes, staying close to teams and their experiences, and identifying new opportunities to enhance efficiency and gain a competitive advantage
  • Conducts portfolio level resourcing and financial management activities, establishes target outcomes through objectives and key results, tracks strategic technology outcomes aligned to the portfolio strategy, and promotes the organization and its resources to achieve them
  • Facilitates performance and career development of teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skills
  • Establishes a culture of risk and compliance management, ensuring the organization is compliant with all applicable policies and standards
  • Ensures that execution is aligned with Portfolio strategy by working with Portfolio Product Executives and other value stream stakeholders
  • Manages procurement, vendor evaluations, and negotiating vendor contracts for technical products and services for the organization


Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
  • Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Breaks down barriers to create a more inclusive environment that supports company Great Place to Work goals.
  • Manager of Process & Data: Challenges end-to-end process efficiency and effectiveness, champion data driven decision-making and removes obstacles to optimize operations.
  • Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Contributes to enterprise strategy and influence messaging to connect team contributions to business purpose, results, and success.
  • Risk Manager: Inspects and challenges risk controls, governance and culture to ensure the timely identification, escalation, debate and remediation of risk across the organization.
  • People Manager & Coach: Coaches to sustain and elevates organizational performance while differentiating to ensure pay for performance.
  • Financial Steward: Efficiently allocates and manages resources across the organization to drive short and long term profitability.
  • Enterprise Talent Leader: Inspects and manages the health of the bench to ensure succession for the organization, while supporting enterprise talent needs.
  • Driver of Business Outcomes: Mobilizes organizational resources to deliver the full range of the bank's capabilities to meet client needs and to gain competitive advantage.


Required Qualifications:

Executive Leadership & Enterprise Platforms
  • 15+ years in senior enterprise technology leadership, including accountability at the SVP/Managing Director level
  • Demonstrated ownership of shared enterprise platforms used across multiple lines of business
  • Experience operating in highly regulated environments with rigorous risk, audit, and SDLC controls
  • Strong executive communication skills across business, technology, and risk stakeholders

AI Platform & Copilot Studio Leadership
  • Direct leadership of enterprise AI platforms, including Generative AI, agent-based architectures, and multi-model/LLM-agnostic strategies
  • Deep understanding of the AI SDLC, including pre-production testing, approvals, and recertification
  • Proven experience designing AI platforms with reusable components, default guardrails, centralized observability, and full lifecycle management
  • Executive ownership of Microsoft Copilot Studio as an enterprise AI surface, with experience deploying governed, enterprise-scale agents that inherit identity, enforce DLP/connector restrictions, and integrate with centralized inventories and analytics
  • Familiarity with Copilot Studio Kit, agent review/testing workflows, analytics, and production readiness/decommissioning processes

Power Platform Governance & Scale
  • Senior leadership experience across the Power Platform (Apps, Automate, Dataverse, BI)
  • Expertise implementing Managed Environments, Dev/Test/Prod strategies, and enterprise CoE governance models.
  • Proven ability to enable productivity while preventing uncontrolled citizen-developer sprawl

Security, Risk & Compliance
  • Hands-on collaboration with Information Security, Risk, Legal, and Compliance teams
  • Strong foundation in identity-first access models, connector/data source controls, and comprehensive audit logging/telemetry
  • Experience leading secure-by-design reviews and threat modeling for AI platforms
  • Familiarity with industry AI governance frameworks, risks, and ethics

Platform Operating Model, Adoption & Business Value
  • Ability to define enterprise AI intake processes, ownership models, and tiered risk patterns for AI agents.
  • Proven track record scaling platforms from pilot to production to full enterprise adoption.
  • Demonstrated success connecting AI platforms to measurable business outcomes: productivity gains, cost reduction, and risk mitigation.
  • Experience prioritizing use cases based on ROI and compliance, including decommissioning non-viable efforts.

Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics & Information Systems, or a related technical field


Desired Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree in a technical discipline, MBA or Executive MBA


Skills:
  • Business Acumen
  • Financial Management
  • Influence
  • Result Orientation
  • Risk Management
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Collaboration
  • Data Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Technical Strategy Development
  • Architecture
  • DevOps Practices
  • Solution Delivery Process
  • Solution Design
  • User Experience Design


Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

About Bank of America Corporation

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America. It provides services in mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. It was formed through the combination of the corporate and investment banking activities of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch following the acquisition of the latter by the former in January 2009. Bank of America completed the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co on 1 January 2009. Bank of America began rebranding all of its corporate and investment banking activities under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch name in September 2009. In April 2010, Bank of America Merrill Lynch appointed Christian Meissner as head of investment banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In April 2011, Bank of America Merrill Lynch integrated its corporate and investment banking operations into a single division. In October 2013, Bank of America Merrill Lynch was recognised as the Most Innovative Investment Bank of the Year in The Banker's Investment Banking Awards.

Bank of America Corporation Careers

Join the dynamic team at Bank of America Corporation, a premier global financial institution where innovation, leadership, and growth go hand in hand. As one of the largest banks in the world, we offer unparalleled job opportunities and a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and professional growth. Work You’ll Do At Bank of America Corporation, you’ll be part of a team that’s dedicated to making a real difference. Whether you’re helping families buy their first home, advising businesses on expansion, or developing cutting-edge financial technologies, your work will have an impact. Our commitment to leadership in the financial industry has never been stronger, and we need passionate, skilled professionals to lead our journey. Explore a World of Opportunities From entry-level positions to leadership roles, Bank of America Corporation offers a variety of career paths in areas such as investment banking, technology, marketing, and risk management. Our job opportunities span the globe, providing the chance to work alongside the best in the industry and develop skills that will propel your career forward. Internship Programs Kickstart your career with Bank of America Corporation’s internship programs. These opportunities provide hands-on experience and a chance to engage in meaningful work that complements your academic studies. Interns gain invaluable networking opportunities, receive mentorship from seasoned professionals, and learn about the culture and operations of a global financial leader. Benefits and Growth Bank of America Corporation is committed to the well-being and continuous professional development of our team members. We offer a competitive benefits package that supports the health, financial stability, and work-life balance of our employees. Our training programs and development initiatives ensure that every team member has the opportunity to grow and advance within the company. Inclusive Culture We believe our strength lies in our diversity. Bank of America Corporation fosters an inclusive environment where all employees can thrive. Through diversity training and a commitment to equal opportunities, we cultivate leadership and innovation that reflect the wide-ranging communities we serve. Join Our Team Are you ready to advance your career at a company that’s at the forefront of the financial industry? Explore the positions available at Bank of America Corporation and find where your skills and interests align with our needs. We are continuously hiring and looking for individuals who are curious, creative, and eager to drive change. Stay Connected Keep up to date with the latest from Bank of America Corporation Careers by subscribing to our job alert emails. Tailor your subscription to receive updates that match your career interests and get insider tips that can help you during your application and interview process. Bank of America Corporation is not just a company—it’s a place where you can shape your future and the future of finance. Join us and be part of a team that’s redefining what a bank can be.
Learn more about Bank of America Corporation
Size
208,000 employees
Market Cap
$260.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$17.8 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
-1.4%
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