Feature Lead - Technology

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 providing leadership, technical direction and oversight to a team delivering technology solutions. Key responsibilities of the job are to provide oversight of the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex computer programs, align technical solutions to business objectives, and ensure that coding practices/quality comply with software development standards. Job expectations include conducting multiple software implementations and applying both depth and breadth in knowledge of several technical competencies.

Overview:

The Feature Lead serves as the Product Owner for an Agile Scrum team and is accountable for maximizing the value delivered through the product. The role is responsible for understanding the product vision, roadmap, business objectives, and stakeholder priorities, and translating them into a well-managed and prioritized product backlog.

The Feature Lead works closely with business stakeholders, Product Managers, architects, and development teams to define, prioritize, and refine epics, features, and user stories. This role ensures that business requirements are clearly understood, properly documented, and aligned with strategic objectives while enabling the Scrum team to deliver high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops and is accountable for feature delivery
• Applies enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality
• Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt
• Guides the team on work breakdown and execution
• Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria
• Plays a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team
• Guides team members with skills and practices (planning and estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices)
• Own and maintain the product backlog, ensuring priorities align with business objectives and product strategy
• Define, refine, and prioritize epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs, gather requirements, assess impacts, and identify dependencies
• Collaborate with Product Managers in a Scaled Agile environment to ensure alignment with strategic roadmaps and priorities
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, PI planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Review and accept completed stories, making timely decisions on scope, requirements, and priority changes
• Work closely with development, architecture, and quality engineering teams to ensure requirements are understood and solutions deliver expected business outcomes
• Provide functional and domain expertise to the Scrum team and support solution discussions
• Communicate product status, risks, dependencies, and priorities to stakeholders
• Drive continuous improvement of product delivery processes and stakeholder engagement
• Possess strong knowledge of the business and technology domain associated with the product
• Operate with minimal supervision and exercise independent judgment in prioritization and product decisions

Required Qualifications

• 8-10+ years relevant IT experience, preferably within a Financial domain
• Good working experience and knowledge in JAVA/J2EE, Kafka, REST API, Spring framework, Mulesoft, Containers and Cloud
• Exposure to tools namely Jenkins, WinSCP XLR, CI-CD framework is an added advantage.
• Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale
• Familiarity with Eclipse IDE, WebLogic Application server or JBoss
• Strong experience in Integration Technologies – Mule ESB & IDE or equivalent, previous Middleware experiences
• Hands-on working experience in Oracle - should be proficient in creating SQL scripts and procedures
• Knowledge of Test-Driven Development and Unit Testing (Cucumber/Litmus, JUnit)
• Experience with containerization and cloud deployments
• Should be able to handle code repositories using Bitbucket
• Able to contribute to 1. Automation 2. Causal analysis 3. Develop shared/common solutions
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (both to a technical and non-technical audience)
• Analytical Thinking, Attention to Detail, Team Leadership, Problem Solving, Innovative thinking, mentoring

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge and working experience in Agile Framework will be an added advantage

Skills:

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40