Job Description:

Job Title: Data Analyst/Engineer

Corporate Title:  AVP

Location:  Chester

Company Overview:

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Location Overview:

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

Role Description:

This role will enhance security compliance, reduce exposure to cyber threats, improve reporting accuracy, increase automation, and enable more effective management of patching and vulnerability remediation activities across the enterprise. The position is essential for maintaining operational resilience and supporting strategic technology risk management objectives.

Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities include working with stakeholders to understand their needs; analysing problems; capturing requirements; creating solutions; solving problems through automation; and providing subject-matter expertise to support scope and requirement decisions. The role also involves collaborating with project stakeholders to analyse and confirm requirements, improve processes, and write user and technical stories.

As a critical liaison between the Patching and Currency team and its stakeholders, this role defines, analyses, and delivers technology solutions that support strategic business objectives. It gathers and documents requirements, translates business needs into actionable deliverables for Agile teams, supports testing and implementation, and drives successful outcomes across the full delivery lifecycle. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills, technical aptitude, and stakeholder management capabilities to deliver high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment while using modern tools, including GenAI, to improve analysis and delivery effectiveness.

What we are looking for:

• Independent, hands-on development experience with the following technologies:
• Python/Java Scripting
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Kafka
• AutoSys
• Tableau
• Ansible
• Splunk
• Jira
• ServiceNow

Skills that will help:

• Knowledge of Linux and Windows server environments
• Hands-on experience as a business systems analyst on an Agile team, including writing user stories and creating technical design documentation and system flows

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

UK

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.