Software Engineer II B - 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.
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!

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 Merchant and Payments Technology (GMPT) – Global Business Services team is involved in Architecture, Development & Testing. Applications in GMPT provide critical services to our customers and clients such as Zelle, that enables person to person payments, Digital Wallets, Debit Card Purchase, Bill Payments, Merchant Acquiring, International and Domestic Remittances, Mortgage Payments, Scheduled Transfers. It also supports capabilities for Card Management, External Account Management and Settlement. The GMPT team is playing a crucial role in transformational initiatives and maintaining digital payments change. In Payments we are moving with API first approach. We are transitioning to Continuous Integration and Deployment using the Horizon Platform and focused on test automation using SOATest. Team here is involved in executing strategies like NEVER DOWN, and Payment Simplification. Platform Stability as part of Never Down is also a focus area due to the need for high availability of the payments platform for our customers. It is also engaged in a POC for containerization using OpenShift. The India team is spread across 4 locations in India - Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad and Mumbai. Continuous Innovation is our motto, with multiple Opex process improvements to its name. At the same time, we are a highly engaged and motivated team that believes in having fun while working.

Job Description: -

Responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the role include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. This role codes solutions, unit tests, and ensures the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust and well-tested interfaces. They are familiar with development and testing practices of the bank.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements.

• Participate and guide team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.

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

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

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

• Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.

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

• Document and communicate required information for deployment, maintenance, support, and business functionality.

• Participate, contribute and can coach team members in the delivery/release (CI-CD) events. e.g. branching timelines, pull requests, issue triage, merge/conflict resolution, release notes.

Requirements

• Education -  Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
• Certifications if any- NA
• Experience Range- 4-6 years

Foundational skills:

• Core Java Knowledge – Java 17 and above
• Web services -REST, J2EE, Spring Framework, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, Kafka, XML or JSON
• JBOSS Application server and VS Code/IntelliJ/Eclipse IDE
• Knowledge of Microservice Frameworks
• Knowledge of RDBMS like Oracle
• Understanding of coding standards
• Excellent communication skills to work with Global Teams
• Exposure to Agile methodology

Desired skills

• Good working knowledge on Code Quality (Junit, SONAR etc)
• Basic knowledge on Code review tools (Crucible, Smarbear.. etc)
• Build tools (Maven, ANT etc)

Work Timings- 11:30AM -8:30PM IST

Job Location- Chennai / Hyderabad