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 is a very involved and exciting role, to be involved with this team is an amazing opportunity for any Senior Engineer.

As a Senior Engineer you’ll be responsible for building and supporting 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, advocating, and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and support in their career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering skills, and guiding stakeholders.

You will play a key part of this team being involved with the build out of our comprehensive system of origination for Structured Products Platform, from a technical perspective, the successful person will be comfortable driving design and architecture and mentoring less experienced developers whilst being a lead contributor. The successful candidate will be able to interact with senior business stakeholders and partnering effectively with other workstream tech leads globally to deliver a front to back platform.

Responsibilities:

•           Develop a thorough understanding of Bank of Americas equity derivatives technology landscape in particular the structured product stack.

•           Design and introduces the development of new solutions to expand the automation scope and reach of the Structured Products system.

•           Help drive the growth of the business by becoming an SME in the structured notes platform market structure and recent industry developments.

•           Contribute to platform design and architecture.

•           Communicate with senior business and platform partners.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for a senior technical leader who has experience working on Structured Notes platform.   The ideal candidates both has extensive knowledge of the Structured Notes business as well as has experience working on platforms to enable this business to scale globally and support business growth in terms of trade count and issuance. 

Can you build and coach teams by performing financial activities to inform the teams strategy, hiring practices, setting, and tracking maturity and quality goals, train employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance levels.

•           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 aspirer to create 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 managers and other stakeholders.

Skills that will help:

•           Someone who has great interaction with Front office trading, structuring and sales, QSG and other tech teams?

•           Experienced with Java / Python

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.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.