Software Engineer II- Java

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. 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 an 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.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

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

Position Summary

Work closely with our line of business and architects to implement solutions protecting Bank of America’s consumer and associate facing applications. Be able to create a prototype to prove designs. Preparing UML diagrams to describe the current and future state of the application. Internet Software Engineers are involved in every release, every project, and in all the phases of SDLC like Analysis, Technical Design, Development, Testing and Deployment. At every step the Software Engineer reviews project artifacts to ensure that the application suites interests are adequately addressed.

The Software Engineer II role is to supervise and develop software to ensure delivery of Initiatives for specific applications or application groups. This includes supervising initiatives in parallel from a Software development standpoint to ensure applications are engaged in correct processes resulting in stable, quality deliverables. Develops, enhances, tests, supports, maintains and debugs software applications that support business units or support functions. A senior member of the technical team responsible for assisting senior business leaders and management. May provide strategic technical direction and system architecture for individual initiatives.

Utilizes in-depth knowledge of technological alternatives and business system requirements to recommend innovations that enhance and/or provide a competitive advantage to the organization. Leads or has responsibility for estimation of effort for software application for one or more programmers. Coordinates collaboration with external programming teams to deliver software on time and within budget. Provides feedback and technical guidance to project managers on issues of critical importance to achieving business objectives. 

This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Required Qualifications

Experience developing with the following languages and libraries:

• Java / J2EE
• Spring Framework MVC
• Oracle PL/SQL
• 5+ years of hands on working experience to develop the mission critical, large scale, high volume enterprise & distributed applications by using Java/J2EE.
• Strong understanding of OO design and having strong programming skills with Java Knowledge of using one or multiple J2EE application servers.
• Strong experience on Java development of RESTful Services using the Spring Framework, Spring Boot and SOAP Webservices.
• Strong experience with microservices, deployment, dockers and containers.
• Experience with Apache Kafka for online data publishing and consuming.
• Experience on Junit Test cases development, Performance Testing, Optimization and Code analysis.
• Experience of using Relational Oracle SQL/PLSQL and No SQL distributed Cassandra DB Technologies. 
• Strong experience on using Development tools like Eclipse/IntelliJ IDE's, Maven, GIT, Bit Bucket, CI/CD pipelines, Splunk and SOAP UI.
• Experience in building of high volume, scalable, available & distributed Technologies.
• Experience on standard development design patterns of Creational, Behavioral & JEE.
• Experience on handling of cross functional issues by coordinating with distributed development teams across the regions.
• Experience with development models such as Agile and SDLC Knowledge of test driven development.
• Must be able to handle multiple tasks and adapt to a constantly changing environment to meet the release deliverables.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in financial industry .

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills .

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• User Experience Design
• Analytical Thinking
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering
• Confluence
• Cryptography

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