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 infrastructure tool/service designs within technical domains in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include facilitating deployment of tools/services by leading others in solution development, maintenance of templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include demonstrating expertise within technical domains, decomposing issues or objectives into work units, advancing efficient solution delivery practices, and promoting exceptional design, engineering and organizational practices.

Responsibilities:

• Confirms that application and business requirements have been translated into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks to guide development and integration of technology solutions
• Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains
• Reviews and may develop software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes
• Reviews and guides the evaluation of reference models, blueprints, playbooks and the execution of on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption
• Mentors and assists Infrastructure resources on infrastructure service along with application integration validation methods and tools to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
• Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

Position Summary:

• Provide middleware administration duties for critical banking platforms, end-to-end, including WebSphere, jBoss, Tomcat, Apache, IBM HTTP Server, and WXS (extreme scale cache);
• Delivering middleware enterprise projects and regulatory legislative initiatives;
• Ensuring production stability from an ongoing support standpoint;
• Ensuring middleware platforms are patched with the most current version of software, helping to manage risk to the customer;
• Providing Middleware Server administration which includes server installation, configuration, performance tuning and production support;
• Working with customers (application teams and/or testing teams) on a daily basis and providing Middleware and Java support; Create, maintain and support the application deployment templates;
• Serving as a J2EE architect and making recommendations on J2EE best practices in application development;
• Designing Middleware infrastructure and topology design for high availability and failover capability;
• All solutions must meet all Policy, Baseline, and Standards along with business requirements.
• Providing technical consultation to other team members and their supported areas;
• Communicating with business partners at an enterprise level; Interfacing with internal customers and external vendors for consultation at various points of the software development life cycle (SDLC); and,
• Executing production changes for Bank integrated and regulatory releases with precision.

Required Qualifications:

• Information Technology professional with 7 years of experience
• Middleware products: Apache, J2EE, Java, JBoss, WebSphere Application Server, Tomcat
• Operating System: Linux
• Java/Container Framework Knowledge
• Knowledge of shell, jython, and perl scripting
• Understanding of Network infrastructure (HTTP/S, TCP/IP, TLS,DNS, Load-balancers, firewalls, proxies, B2B links)
• Experience with Release Deploy Tools: Ansible, Ansible Tower, XLR, BitBucket
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong attention to detail

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Prior Bank of America experience
• Worked with WebSphere Extreme Scale, BPM Middleware Administration
• DEVOPS experience
• Other products: BMC Truesight Server Automation, Harman mDeliver, Ansible Tower, Terraform

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Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Automation
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Delivery Process
• Stakeholder Management
• Adaptability
• Architecture
• Innovative Thinking
• Project Management
• Technical Strategy Development

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$108,100.00 - $165,200.00 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.