Vice President, Development Lead, e-Trading, Global Markets Technology, Sydney, Australia

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.

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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 role will contribute to the continued evolution of Bank’s electronic trading platform, with a strong focus on enhancing the Front Office trading experience. Key areas of impact include Pricing, Market Data analytics, and the consumption and distribution of trading information across front‑to‑back business users.

FICC eTrading technology stack at Bank of America is a robust java-based platform. Uses proprietary and third-party libraries for low latency messaging. It uses our in-house quantitative library for valuations.

Responsibilities:

This role is responsible for providing:

• Design and develop enhancements to the electronic trading platform, supporting Front Office trading workflows and analytics.
• Drive platform efficiency through consolidation initiatives and the enablement of low‑touch integrations built on shared, cross‑product foundational components.
• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of core foundational services that serve multiple lines of business.
• Partner closely with business and technology stakeholders to deliver solutions that leverage shared components while meeting specific business needs.
• Ability to identify and apply AI‑driven techniques to enhance system reliability, performance monitoring, analytics, or workflow automation within a regulated enterprise environment.
• Ensure solutions align with the strategic roadmap for Global Markets Technology.

Required Skills

• Extensive experience in one of the domains within eTrading across any asset class (Connectivity/Pricing/Algorithmic trading etc)
• Extensive hands-on programming skills in core Java, use of Spring/Google GUICE framework, concurrency.
• Demonstrated experience or strong working knowledge of AI‑assisted software development, including the use of generative AI tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, and troubleshooting efficiency.
• Proven knowledge of modern trading systems, including market data, algorithmic trading and market-making, mass-quoting, and order management
• Excellent analytical and problem solving / investigation abilities
• Good interpersonal skills as a team member
• Proactive in tackling technical problems
• Willingness to pick up new skills when needed
• Excellent verbal / written skills
• Ability to balance the need for high quality output with the need to meet tight deadlines
• Willing to interact with global teams to drive initiatives from APAC region.
• Strong understanding of agile methodology, test driven development and continuous integration

Desired Skills:

• Experience in financial industry (asset classes like Fixed Income or Equities)
• Quantitative analytical skills and working knowledge towards derivatives / financial products
• Understanding economics and non-economics of the flow of products traded in the market.
• Experience in supporting Front Office in Trade Capture, Risk and PL 
• Awareness and experience within emerging technologies (E.g.: Data technologies such as Hadoop/Kafka or similar, or Cloud technologies etc.)