diff --git a/flytepropeller/pkg/controller/nodes/array/execution_context.go b/flytepropeller/pkg/controller/nodes/array/execution_context.go
index 4fb5a8a2146..9bd42c0b6b5 100644
--- a/flytepropeller/pkg/controller/nodes/array/execution_context.go
+++ b/flytepropeller/pkg/controller/nodes/array/execution_context.go
@@ -23,11 +23,18 @@ func (a *arrayExecutionContext) GetExecutionConfig() v1alpha1.ExecutionConfig {
 
 func newArrayExecutionContext(executionContext executors.ExecutionContext, subNodeIndex int) *arrayExecutionContext {
 	executionConfig := executionContext.GetExecutionConfig()
-	if executionConfig.EnvironmentVariables == nil {
-		executionConfig.EnvironmentVariables = make(map[string]string)
+
+	// since maps are all reference types in golang if we are going to modify the
+	// EnvironmentVariables for each subNode we need to at least shallow copy the map to ensure
+	// there are no concurrent modifications during parallelized evaluation of subNodes
+	environmentVariables := executionConfig.EnvironmentVariables
+	executionConfig.EnvironmentVariables = make(map[string]string)
+	for key, value := range environmentVariables {
+		executionConfig.EnvironmentVariables[key] = value
 	}
 	executionConfig.EnvironmentVariables[JobIndexVarName] = FlyteK8sArrayIndexVarName
 	executionConfig.EnvironmentVariables[FlyteK8sArrayIndexVarName] = strconv.Itoa(subNodeIndex)
+
 	executionConfig.MaxParallelism = 0 // hardcoded to 0 because parallelism is handled by the array node
 
 	return &arrayExecutionContext{