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 developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements

• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements

• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities

• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements

• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle

• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause

• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant work experience

• Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role

• Minimum 8-10 years of progressive experience in the banking industry.

• Must have application development experience in Java or Python, RDBMS, SQL, Quartz experience is a big plus

• Must have experience participating in large or complex projects

• Excellent verbal and written communications, comfortable working with different levels of management, high attention to detail

• Sense of ownership and personally vested in success of the project

• Knowledge of Financial products including listed, bilateral and Cleared products is required. Risk knowledge is a plus.

• Must be proficient in data management to include strong data analytical capability

• Must be able to engage and leverage teams and business partners to efficiently deliver business solutions

• Must have excellent organizational skills and be able to effectively prioritize multiple tasks to meet extremely tight deadlines

Desired Qualifications

• In depth understanding of core Java API’s (collections, concurrency, nio etc) – Must have extensive understanding and proven industrial experience with multithreaded systems, working knowledge of the Java garbage collector, familiar with low latency IO

• AI First approach

• Enthusiastic, passionate engineer able to work closely with project teams in a multi-faceted role

• Automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing

• Development practices - Use test driven development and be familiar with UML and OO design. Should have experience with Eclipse/IntelliJ, Jenkins, Git, TeamCity, Gradle and continuous build servers.

• In-depth experience of sockets and understanding of network connectivity

• Demonstrable experience of front office system design and architecture

• Team Player - Must be able to work with and help more junior members as well as take technical direction from the team lead.

• Practical, hands-on experience with Agile and test-driven development

• Knowledge of Prime Brokerage Margin Financing a plus

Skills:

• Application Development

• Automation

• Collaboration

• DevOps Practices

• Solution Design

• Agile Practices

• Architecture

• Result Orientation

• Solution Delivery Process

• User Experience Design

• Analytical Thinking

• Data Management

• Risk Management

• Technical Strategy Development

• Test Engineering

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$88,800.00 - $144,800.00 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.