Senior 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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

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 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.

Position Summary:

The Open Banking Channel supports over 20 million customers to conduct the banking application of their choice, with over 7,000 applications in the ecosystem. We are in search of a talented Senior Engineer who will be responsible for interfacing with multiple internal teams and external companies to assist them in operational needs and process engagement and response improvements. This Engineer will maintain a partnership/working relationship with the application teams, support internal business partners and external 3rd party partners to proactively modify and update operational processes as appropriate.  As part of the team, you will design and support enterprise-scale solutions across Java, APIs, microservices, OpenShift, cloud-native platforms and distributed systems, delivering resilient, high-volume services.

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
• Proactively research, test and implement additional tools of value to the Platform Operational Framework

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or STEM related curriculum
• 5+ years of experience in developing, enhancing, debugging, supporting, maintaining and testing software applications that support business units or supporting functions
• Strong technical SME with understanding of API's, OAuth 2 authorization framework, gateway technologies, monitoring and capacity management concepts
• Ability to interface with both development and infrastructure teams to support overall channel resliency for end to end transaction flows
• Experience delivering an enterprise service leveraging enterprise tools for a wide customer base
• Understanding of API's and data exchange principles
• Understanding of Financial Industry standards such Financial Data Exchange (FDX)
• Familiar with RESTful patterns and OAuth 2 authorization framework
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Familiar w/Splunk & AppDynamics and other operational toolsets
• Experience with cloud providers
• Strong understanding of DevOps and automation best practices and hands-on experience with industry standard CI/CD tools
• Familiarity with web service standards and RESTful API best practices, including HTTP method/resource pairing, header use, pagination, and HATEOAS concepts
• Implement logging and analytics metrics along with corresponding notifications and alerts using industry standard tools
• Familiarity with current Server OS including Windows and Red Hat EL

Desired Qualifications:

• Working knowledge/expertise of SQL Oracle/MSSQL, ability to perform CRUD tasks
• Familiar with OpenShift and AWS offerings and implementations
• Basic Networking, Firewall, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS
• Working knowledge/expertise of caching technologies

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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40