Senior Engineer - FICC Credit Technology

Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

Job Profile Summary:

FICC Electronic Trading supports eTrading businesses across Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities. Credit eTrading sits within FICC eTrading and is focused on the electronic trading of corporate bonds and credit derivatives.

The team is global, across Bromley, London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Chennai & Mumbai.

 This Lead Software Engineer role sits within the FICC Electronic Trading technology team, focused on Systematic Credit eTrading. Alongside supporting the continued existing Credit eTrading technology stack, you will lead the buildout of shared services for eTrading across FICC. You will have extensive experience overseeing the build of eTrading solutions – leading design discussions and build of eTrading software used in market connectivity, price distribution or RFQ engines, ideally with exposure across all three. You will have special interest in, or experience of, low latency systematic trading in Rates or Credit. 

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution

• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)

• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline

• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews

• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level

• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features

• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements

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.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work 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

• Experience as a Lead software engineer building eTrading solutions – software used in market connectivity, price distribution or RFQ engines.

• Must understand and have experience building out D2D, D2C and bilateral eTrading connectivity.

• Highly proficient in Java/Spring with expertise in developing FIX trading solutions.

• Experience working with trading desks, strategists & quants for L3 support on production trading systems as well as requirements gathering/solution design for new build.

• Experience supervising and growing eTrading engineering talent

• In-depth knowledge of Credit or Rates eTrading workflows and market structure

• Proficiency in debugging/profiling JDK based languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin/Clojure)

• Advanced work with JDK CI/CD and build toolchains including Maven, Gradle, SBT, Jenkins

• Experience with modern RPC microservices, specifically GraphQL and gRPC

• Proficiency in developing for Unix/Linux based environments including shell basics as well as process and network diagnostics.

• Exposure to monitoring, metrics and tracing tooling - ELK stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTSDB, OpenTrace, Jaeger

• Exposure to message-oriented architecture - ZeroMQ, JMS, AMPS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Google pub/sub

• Exposure to process/container orchestration technologies - Mesos, Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker

• Hi proficiency in data architecture in both SQL and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase

• Experience with reactive streams implementations and observables - ReactiveX (RXJava, RXJS, etc), Akka Streams, Monix, Spring Reactor

Desired Qualifications

• Understanding of machine architecture and natively compiled languages such as C++ and Rust

• Experience with CQRS architecture.

• Experience with Scala functional and/or concurrency libraries such as ZIO, C

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 Requirements: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

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