Senior Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Engineer

Corporate Title: Director

Location:  Bromley

Company Overview:

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!

Location Overview:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train

Role description:

This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.

• Senior role as part of build out of a comprehensive system of origination for Structured Products Platform.
• From a technical perspective, the successful candidate will be comfortable driving design and architecture and mentoring less experienced developers whilst being a hands-on contributor.
• From a project perspective, the successful candidate will be able to interact with senior business stakeholders and partnering effectively with other workstreams tech leads globally to deliver front to back platform.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• Develop a thorough understanding of the B of A equity derivatives technology landscape in particular the structured product stack.
• Design and lead hands-on development of new solutions to expand the automation scope and reach of the Structured Products system.
• Contribute to platform design and architecture.
• Communicate with senior business and platform partners.
• Help drive the growth of the business by providing expertise in the structured notes platform market structure and recent industry developments.

Responsibilities:

• Builds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting, and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectives.
• Facilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skills.
• Manages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are met.
• Manages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organization.
• Contributes to the technology strategy for their technical domain.
• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers.
• Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders.

Skills:

• Influence
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Solution Delivery Process
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Automation
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices

Benefits of working at Bank of America:
UK

Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum 
The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.
Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.