Principal Engineer

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!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for solutions at the program or portfolio level, to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities include continuously improving the design, quality, and reuse of the solution and delivering technology enablers that improve development efficiencies for the solution. Job expectations include familiarity with at least one area of engineering, acting as a “go to” reference across the organization, and applying knowledge to improve technical competencies through recruitment and development activities.

The Principal Engineer will be part of the Enterprise Risk and Control Functions Technology Architecture organization and will play a vital role in establishing data tooling strategy and standardized data accessibility architecture across data domains supported by Enterprise Risk and Control functions organization.

Responsibilities:

• Develops the engineering approach for the entire program/portfolio solution and works with Architecture, to develop/analyze/deliver the implementation of technical enablers.

• Leads the planning, definition, and design of the complex features which span multiple teams and explore solution alternatives.

• Creates ideas on designing complex technology and solution development approaches.

• Leads the technical oversight for teams in solution development including design reviews and code within own domain.

• Defines the technology tool stack for the solution within ranged of internally approved and supported technologies.

• Explores state-of-the-art technologies to improve development efficiencies, quality of test/QA coverage, and release management.

• Leads and is responsible for the end-to-end test strategy/creation/adherence, and the integration between teams for a program/portfolio solution.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in building large scale distributed enterprise platforms with focus on performance, scale, security, and reliability.

• Performing current state data architecture and tooling assessment across all data domains supported by control functions. Cross-domain reviews to identify synergies and opportunities to eliminate redundancy and duplication of data.

• Establish capabilities framework for various data tools (metadata/lineage, data sourcing, data provisioning, data accessibility, data archival, data security, data quality etc.) and performing comparative analysis to recommend tools and establish standardized architecture and tooling strategy.

• Developing high-level Data master plan and a roadmap to advance data architecture and tooling strategy.

• Establishing data architecture & tooling best practices and participating in project architecture / design reviews to ensure consistency and standardization.

• Establishing KPIs for the data architecture team and providing transparency through KPI measurement / reporting.

• Evaluation of leading-edge data tools and integration into control functions architecture & tooling strategy & roadmap.

• Ensuring application data architecture & tooling adherence with overall strategy via deep domain and technology expertise and ongoing interaction with architecture, development, business solutions and change management partners.

• Participates in design, development, and implementation of architectural deliverables, to include components of the assessment and optimization of system design and review of user requirements.

• Contributes to the determination of technical and operational feasibility of solutions.

• Develops prototypes of the system design and works with database, operations, technical support, and other IT areas as appropriate throughout development and implementation processes.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with next generation tools and technologies is a plus (AI/ML, RPA etc.)

Skills:

• Automation

• Influence

• Result Orientation

• Stakeholder Management

• Technical Strategy Development

• Application Development

• Architecture

• Business Acumen

• Risk Management

• Solution Design

• Agile Practices

• Analytical Thinking

• Collaboration

• Data Management

• Solution Delivery Process

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

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