Feature Lead

Job Description:

Job Title: Feature Lead

Corporate Title:  VP

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.  We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  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:

The role offers the opportunity for involvement throughout the software development lifecycle and will include development of major green field components. There is significant buy-in from senior business partners and the successful candidate will gain experience of delivering directly to the Users. Challenges currently being worked on include producing consistent, consolidated risk reports spanning the whole Global Markets business, running high-performance risk calculations for trading desks across the global business. The team development environment is Quartz - the bank’s next generation trading and risk platform. Quartz consists of various pieces of shared infrastructure and code to drive consolidation across the trading business and break down business specific silos. Development takes place almost entirely in Python, with some C++ for high performance components.

Responsibilities:

•           Ownership of the end to end delivery of solutions and support/guide developers within the team with an strategic architecture mindset

•           Working with a globally dispersed team of developers and other functions

•           Provide technical leadership, including design and code reviews

•           On third level support and assist line of business development teams on a rotational basis.

•           Point of contact in the region for the team.

•           Independently own the deliveries with no / little direction

•           Influence and collaborate across various technology teams on integration as well as providing solutions

What we are looking for:

•           Programming in Python (or equivalent/similar programming languages

•           Understanding of grid/distributed/parallel/high performance computing concepts.

•           Knowledge of FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities) or Equities products in pricing, risk and PNL domains.

•           Software development and testing, deployment and support using agile development methodologies

•           Functioning as part of a high performance team, working on high priority deliverables

•           Solving real problems, and adding value to the business

•           Communicating effectively with various stakeholders across technology and the business

Skills that will help:

•           Experience in platforms similar to Quartz

•           Lead technologist experience Risk calculation projects

•           Ability to coach junior developer

•           Ability to collaborate with various technology teams across the bank

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.