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:

As a Senior Engineer, the individual will be responsible for providing end-to-end technical leadership for the design, development, implementation, and support of enterprise-scale data solutions supporting the Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) platform. This role requires deep expertise in Hadoop ecosystem technologies, ETL frameworks, large-scale data processing, and distributed systems architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Leading the architecture, design, and development of scalable Hadoop and ETL solutions supporting critical Incentive Compensation business processes.
• Providing technical direction and governance across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Translating complex business requirements into innovative, scalable, and supportable technical solutions while identifying opportunities to leverage emerging technologies and platform capabilities.
• Driving high-level and detailed solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise data architecture, security standards, performance requirements, and operational best practices.
• Acting as the primary subject matter expert (SME) for Hadoop, ETL, and related data technologies, providing coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance to engineering teams across onshore and offshore locations.
• Supporting production incident resolution efforts, driving root cause analysis, implementing preventative measures, and making critical technical decisions during high-severity production outages and operational disruptions.
• Collaborating with Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and Application Support teams to establish strategic data solutions, platform roadmaps, and modernization initiatives.
• 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
• 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:

• 10+ years of experience developing ETL solutions using any ETL tool like Informatica.
• 10+ years of experience developing applications using Hadoop, Spark, Impala, Hive & Python
• 10+ years of experience in running, using and troubleshooting the ETL & Cloudera Hadoop Ecosystem i.e. Hadoop FS, Hive, Impala, Spark, Kafka, Hue, Oozie, Yarn, Sqoop, Flume
• Experience on Autosys JIL scripting
• Proficient scripting skills i.e. Unix shell & Perl Scripting
• Knowledge of troubleshooting data-related issues
• Experience processing large amounts of structured and unstructured data with MapReduce
• Experience in SQL and Relation Database developing data extraction applications
• Experience with data movement and transformation 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

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.