Vice President; Software Engineer

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, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

Responsibilities:

• Utilize in-depth capital markets products knowledge to design, code, test, debug, and document programs as well as support activities for the corporate systems architecture.
• Work closely and collaborate with business partners, primarily traders, to understand problem statements, trade flow and define requirements for system applications.
• Develop high level and low level design documents for projects undertaken.
• Analyze the accuracy and performance of “hedge orders” calculated by the system.
• Engage with market data providers like Bloomberg and Refinitiv, as needed, to communicate issues and track them to closure.
• Analyze the performance of the software and implement improvements to enhance speed, scalability, and resource utilization.
• Fully understand Quartz platform, an integrated front-to-back sales/trading system to manage positions, pricing, and risk management for all financial instruments across all Global Markets Technology (GMT) business lines at Bank of America, and use it for developing applications.
• Participate in peer code reviews to ensure coding best practices are followed and the quality of software is maintained.
• Participate in agile practices.
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions with junior engineer to share the technical knowledge best practices, and project specific information, ensuring team competency and growth.
• Stay informed and up to date on the latest enterprise software libraries and products and remediate as necessary.
• Remote work may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Engineering (any), or related: and
• 5 years of progressively responsible experience in the job offered or a related IT occupation.
• Must include 5 years of experience in each of the following:
• Designing and developing scalable enterprise grade applications, frameworks and libraries using Object Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and performing service integration through APIs and webservices using REST and SOAP web services;
• Designing and developing responsive user interfaces using Front End Technologies including Java Script, Angular and React Framework;
• Rapid prototyping and developing new proof of concept projects to enhance current software systems to handle increased traffic and larger datasets with industry leading tools and technologies;
• Designing robust, scalable data storage solutions to house significantly large amount of data with sub 1s retrieval times; and,
• Reversing engineering existing architecture and redesigning components to improve resiliency and scale.

If interested apply online at www.bankofamerica.com/careers or email your resume to [email protected] and reference the job title of the role and requisition number.

EMPLOYER:  Bank of America N.A.

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- annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

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.