Technical Lead

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!

LOB Description:

Hadoop Engineer (SME) role supporting NextGen Platforms built around Big Data Technologies (Hadoop,Spark, Kafka, Impala, Hbase, Docker-Container, Ansible and many more). Requires experience in cluster management of vendor based Hadoop and Data Science (AI/ML) products like Cloudera, Databricks, Snowflake, Talend, Greenfield, ELK, KPMG Ignite etc. Hadoop Engineer is involved in the full life cycle of an application and part of an agile development process. They require the ability to interact, develop, engineer, and communicate collaboratively at the highest technical levels with clients, development teams, vendors, and other partners. The following section is intended to serve as a general guideline for each relative dimension of project complexity, responsibility and education/experience within this role.

• Works on complex, major or highly visible tasks in support of multiple projects that require multiple areas of expertise
• Team member will be expected to provide subject matter expertise in managing Hadoop and Data Science Platform operations with focus around Cloudera Hadoop, Jupyter Notebook, OpenShift, Docker-Container Cluster Management and Administration
• Integrates solutions with other applications and platforms outside the framework - He / She will be responsible for managing platform operations across all environments which includes upgrades, bug fixes, deployments, metrics / monitoring for resolution and forecasting, disaster recovery, incident /
• problem / capacity management
• Serves as a liaison between client partners and vendors in coordination with project managers to provide technical solutions that address user needs
• Responsibilities
• Works on complex, major or highly visible tasks in support of multiple projects that require multiple areas of expertise
• Team member will be expected to provide subject matter expertise in managing Hadoop and Data Science Platform operations with focus around Cloudera Hadoop, Jupyter Notebook, OpenShift, Docker-Container Cluster Management and Administration
• Integrates solutions with other applications and platforms outside the framework - He / She will be responsible for managing platform operations across all environments which includes upgrades, bug fixes, deployments, metrics / monitoring for resolution and forecasting, disaster recovery, incident /
• problem / capacity management
• Serves as a liaison between client partners and vendors in coordination with project managers to provide technical solutions that address user needs

Job Description:
This job is responsible for configuring complex software delivery automation. Key responsibilities include ensuring software deployments are configured to meet access, ownership, and authentication standards, providing technical direction within a functional domain, modifying code for software deployment automation, and overseeing software promotion pipelines for complex/high availability applications following Continuous Delivery practices. Job expectations include the ability to integrate development, testing practices, software delivery tools, and runtime application standards at the bank.

Responsibilities:

• Mentors and clarifies issues and practices for DevOps Engineers by decomposing more complex tasks into actionable work units and deliverables and assigning the work units to an individual or teams of DevOps Engineers
• Responds to escalated events or issues from DevOps Engineers and creates issues and action-plan summaries for stakeholders
• Collaborates with Application Owner(s) on mid-term and long-term strategy for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tool adoption efforts across groups of applications
• Monitors and responds to aggregate alert trends across application and infrastructure key performance indicators (KPI) for the service supporting CI/CD services
• Works with Infrastructure and Solutions Engineers to prioritize and propose new features and capabilities for CI/CD service platform that fosters increased automation across a group of applications or line of business
• Responds to risk or audit identified issues with access control processed designed for compliance with firm separation of duties practices and software release management standards, and policies
• Works with Site Reliability and Infrastructure Engineers to reconcile and integrate planned CI/CD service platform changes across the monitoring, alerting, forecasting, and reporting functions

Required Qualifications:

• Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Impala, Hive, Hbase etc.
• Strong knowledge of Hadoop Architecture, HDFS, Hadoop Cluster and Hadoop Administrator's role
• Intimate knowledge of fully integrated AD/Kerberos authentication
• Experience setting up optimum cluster configurations
• Debugging knowledge of YARN.
• Hands-on with analyzing various Hadoop log files,
• compression, encoding, & file formats
• Expert level knowledge of Cloudera Hadoop components such as HDFS, Sentry, HBase, Kafka,Impala, SOLR, Hue, Spark, Hive, YARN, Zookeeper and Postgres
• Strong technical knowledge: Unix/Linux; Database (Sybase/SQL/Oracle), Java, Python, Perl, Shell scripting, Infrastructure.
• Experience in Monitoring & Alerting, and Job Scheduling Systems
• Being comfortable with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
• Strong grasp of automation / DevOps tools – Ansible,Jenkins, SVN, Bitbucket

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working on Big Data Technologies
• Cloudera Admin / Dev Certification
• Certification in Cloud, Docker-Container, OpenShift Technologies

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Adaptability
• Application Development
• Influence
• Innovative Thinking
• Risk Management
• Architecture
• Project Management
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$119,400.00 - $165,500.00 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.