Senior Technology Manager - Global Markets Low Latency SOR Manager

Job Description:

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!

Job 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.

LOB Specific Summary

We are looking to hire a Senior Technology Manager to lead development of our smart order routing for Equities Cash Technology globally. The ideal candidate has significant practical experience in Electronic Trading of Equities in both C++ and Java and a passion for modern software architecture and development practices. As a key part of our Equities Cash Trading Technology team, the role requires working with multiple partners across organizations including senior leadership.

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
• Leading technical development of the Smart Order Routing stack, a set of high performant C++ and Java components creating improved execution capabilities for internal and external clients
• Embody a strong business-centric mindset, with ability to utilize sound business judgment and tailor approach to drive optimal business outcomes.
• Liaising with the Equity LOB to drive a cohesive strategy supporting multiple workflows across lines of business
• Analyzing business requirements, forming an architectural design, overseeing cross team development and testing, and managing production issues
• Collaborating closely with our Site Reliability Engineering group to achieve industry leading reliability and scalability
• Developing roadmaps for continuous platform improvement

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.

• Diversity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company D&I goals.
• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in both C++ and Java development on Linux
• Direct exposure to building Electronic Trading applications
• Automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing
• Ability to architect resilient, instrumented, distributed systems achieving world class reliability
• Familiarity with Agile software development and associated best practices
• Enthusiastic, strong-minded person able to work closely with project teams in a multi-faceted role and help instill a responsible and professional culture
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical partners

Desirable Qualifications:

• Deep knowledge of financial asset classes (particularly Equities) and algorithmic trading of these products
• Working knowledge in architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments 

Skills:

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

Minimum Education Requirements - Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

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