Feature lead - Technology

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 providing leadership, technical direction and oversight to a team delivering technology solutions. Key responsibilities of the job are to provide oversight of the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex computer programs, align technical solutions to business objectives, and ensure that coding practices/quality comply with software development standards. Job expectations include conducting multiple software implementations and applying both depth and breadth in knowledge of several technical competencies.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops and is accountable for feature delivery
• Applies enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality
• Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt
• Guides the team on work breakdown and execution
• Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria
• Plays a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team
• Guides team members with skills and practices (planning and estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices)

Required Qualifications:

• Five plus years with recent experience tackling complex challenges in distributed data systems using Java (Enterprise Edition), Oracle SQL, and Python.
• Five plus years experience using Java/J2EE technologies to develop scalable enterprise-grade applications, libraries, and frameworks.
• Three plus years designing and developing solutions architecture to scale backend systems with Spring framework, Spring MVC, and RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience with messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ.
• Experience with cloud-native development and deployment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Utilized DevOps technologies for CI/CD including Ansible, Jenkins, JFrog, and Git.
• Designed and implemented database development on Oracle Exadata.
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring a team of engineers.
• Strong understanding of software development, testing, deployment, and support using agile methodologies.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java Enterprise Edition and related frameworks (e.g., Spring, Hibernate) and advanced SQL.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to write specifications and design documents.

Desired Qualifications:

• Domain expertise in payment systems including Wire, ACH, RTP.
• Knowledge of ISO 20022 messaging standards.
• Exposure to event-driven architecture and distributed systems.
• Understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements in financial services.
• Experience with observability tools like Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Knowledge of financial products data such as Equities, Fixed Income, and Derivatives.
• Agile/Scrum certification or experience working in agile environments.
• Experience with Node.js

Skills:

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices

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