Software Engineer III - GBS IND

Job Description:

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Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence, and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview:

Global Markets Technology & Operations provides end-to-end technology solutions for Global Markets businesses including Equities, Prime Brokerage, Interest Rates, Currencies, Commodities, Derivatives and Structured Products. Across all these products, solutions include architecture, design, development, change management, implementation and support using various enterprise technologies. In addition, GMT&O provides Sales, Electronic Trading, Trade Work Flow, Pricing, and Market Risk, Middle office, Collateral Management, Credit Risk, Post-trade confirmation, Settlement and Client service processes for Trading, Capital Markets, and Wealth Management businesses.

Job Description

This team operates in the FICC APAC

The technology team within the Global Markets Macro Tech organization is responsible for the development, testing and on-going support of the systems required for the smooth running of this complex global commodities business. This position is specifically for executing the development / feature enhancement efforts. BACI tech team will work in close collaboration with the global teams spread across PACRIM, EMEA and AMRS.

The role will require close interaction with the traders and sales people, understanding their requirements, and developing and/or enhancing existing solutions to meet their needs. The candidate will also be responsible for analysis, design, implementation and testing of various components of a Structured Products Front to Back trading system.

The teams use agile development with varying levels of maturity amongst them. India team is distributed across Chennai, Mumbai, Gift and the global team across London and New York. The role would require a close engagement with stakeholders in Global technology function.

Looking for candidates with 8-12 years of post-academic experience in complex application development (client and/or server) python, messaging middleware and expertise in database development (Oracle/ SQL server). An Ideal candidate would have a good understanding of the financial markets / products and specifically commodities asset class and a deep understanding of the venues and exchanges trading in Fixed Income. Candidates with hands-on development experience in Endur trading platform will be a great plus.

This role requires good amount of experience in handling people and in parallel work and complete his/her daily deliverables. Handling the team starts right from taking care of associate's concerns, aspirations, etc., having frequent connects with them and goes up to handling their appraisal process end to end. He/She should be good in juggling between multiple priorities and delegate work to the team as applicable. He/She should be able to extract work from the team and at the same time keep the team motivated. Hiring is another area that one should be well-versed with. Additionally, he/she should be good at stakeholder management and negotiation skills. This role requires managing the Commodities Risk & Surveillance, GCIP and TDR teams. Should be good in Python, Quartz knowledge is much preferable. Looking for a candidate with 12-14 yrs of experience possessing the above skills.

Responsibilities:

• Applications Developer - you will help develop, support, maintain and test software applications for Fixed Income Products Technology function.
• This is an exciting and challenging high profile project within Fixed Income Technology that is ideally suited to an individual with the energy and drive for change. Ideal candidate should have experience in developing server side applications handling real time data. Should be able to independently design and high performance, scalable solutions and respond to a fast paced environment. Experience in GUI development and Front Office environments advantageous.
• In addition to the above the person should

• Participate within milestone projects.

• Work closely with other commodities technology teams.

• Manage and escalate risks and issues

• Ability to analyze, design, develop and troubleshoot new and existing applications

• Learning new technologies and framework

• Interact with PMs and users to gather requirements

• Optimize and tune existing modules for better performance

• Collaborate with DEV/BAU/MAPS teams for deliverables

Requirements:

Education: Bachelors/Master’s degree in computer science or engineering or similar

Certifications (if any):AI/ML is good to have

Experience Range: 8 to 10+ years of experience

Foundational Skills:

• Hands on experience in server side programming using Python.
• Strong exposure to SQL server database or any other object based or RDBMS systems.
• Good understanding of OOPS concepts     
• Strong interpersonal skills and experienced in communicating complex solutions with both technical and Business users.
• Must be able to handle multiple tasks and adapt to a constantly changing environment
• Exposure to threading and messaging services will be an additional value-add
• Experience in people management
• Understanding of Qz and Fixed Income Trading Business is preferable.

Desired Skills:

• Development experience in a large scale global software deployment
• Experience of Rates trading within Fixed Income would be very advantageous

Work Timings: 11:30AM – 08:30PM

Job Location: Mumbai