Senior Engineer - GBS IND

Job Description:

About Us

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!

Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview

Global Markets Technology provides end-to-end technology solutions for Global Markets businesses including Equities, Prime Brokerage, Interest Rates, Currencies, Commodities, Derivatives and Structured Products. Across all these products, solutions include architecture, design, development, change management, implementation and support using various enterprise technologies. In addition, GMT provides Sales, Electronic Trading, Trade Work Flow, Pricing, and Market Risk, Middle office, Collateral Management, Credit Risk, Post-trade confirmation, Settlement and Client service processes for Trading, Capital Markets, and Wealth Management businesses.

FX electronic trading technology contains a suite of applications, with a complex eco system, architecture, multiple business flows, upstream and downstream dependencies. This is a critical institutional front office trading application supported 24 by 5 supporting all global locations for FX business.

Job Description:

The successful candidate will join the India development team of FX electronic trading technology.   

Individual contributor role; is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for solutions at the program or portfolio level to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities include design/delivery of critical strategic complex business projects along with the India team. Continuously improving the design, quality, and reuse of the solution and delivering technology enablers that improve development efficiencies for the solution. They are experts in at least one area of engineering and acts as a "go-to-” reference across the organization. As experts, they play a role in improving technical competency in their area through recruitment and development activities.

Responsibilities

Leads the planning, definition, and design of complex features which span multiple teams and explores solution alternatives.

• Creates ideas on designing complex technology and solution development approaches - e.g., boundary condition coverage for complex technology issues.
• Help validate the economic impact of design decisions.
• Leads technical oversight for teams in solution development including design reviews and code within own domain.
• Supports/mentors/coaches’ team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance e.g., pairing, code reviews
• Accountable for defining the technology tool stack for the solution within range of internally approved and supported technologies.
• Explores state-of-the-art technologies to improve development efficiencies, quality of test/QA coverage, and release management.
• Leads and is responsible for the end-to-end test strategy/creation/adherence, and the integration between teams for a program/portfolio solution.
• Enables a program/portfolio solution with CI/CD capabilities and release management; Responsible for maximizing reusability, ensuring process optimization and efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline.
• Optimize and tune existing modules for better performance
• Collaborate with product owners, scrum masters, testing teams throughout the SDLC process.
• Fully leverage AI tools during the SDLC cycle with clear measurable delivery velocity improvements

Requirements

Education: Graduate / Postgraduate in Computer Science engineering or equivalent

 Certifications If Any :NA

 Experience Range :14-20 years

 Foundational skills

• Hands-on Software Development in C++ preferably on UNIX/Linux in a distributed application environment
• Strong in C++ application design and development that includes strong multi-threading
• Experience in front office electronic trading applications
• Strong FX domain experience/expertise
• Strong Algorithms and Data structures
• Strong in Design patterns and their use in distributed systems development
• Strong in application architecture concepts/patterns/uses
• Knowledge and experience with message-based systems (Tibco RV/IBM MQ/Zero MQ)
• Experience using AI assisted development tools with good prompt engineering skills
• Strong SQL and related DB skills – indexing, transaction management (Sybase/Oracle/MS SQL)
• Good in NO SQL databases, distributed caching technologies and their use
• Strong in system design concepts for a distributed application development
• Hands on experience in scripting languages like Python/Perl.
• Strong UNIX command knowledge including experience in writing shell scripts
• Strong working knowledge of leveraging CI/CD pipelines in SDLC
• Knowledge of Cloud architecture principles
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Desired skills

• Strong communication skills
• Flexible to adopt new technologies

Work Timings: 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM

Job Location: Chennai/Mumbai