Feature Lead

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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. 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.

Global Markets Technology (a division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch) seeks a Feature Lead to lead and manage a team of 7-9 developers to build & maintain a Transaction Reporting Regulatory Application across multiple jurisdictions and asset classes for OTC Derivatives and FX products. Experience in regulatory transaction reporting for CFTC, EMIR, or MiFID II is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and guide a feature team and hold them accountable to procedures and routines
• Drive large scale projects and deliverables across various tech and business teams
• Drive collaboration with analyzing technical requirements and interpret them into code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Produce documents including design documents and class diagrams
• Coaching the team on writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Reviewing and approving team members’ code
• Maintain existing code and applications to support operations
• Perform testing with technical peers and functional end users to ensure successful launch of development projects
• L3 production support, including off-hours support when needed
• Promote quality engineering and good coding practices across the company

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of software development experience on large, complex systems
• 5+ years OOP in Python programming experience in a development facility like Quartz, SecDB or Athena
• 5+ years of leading teams
• Building software with Test driven approach (unit, functional, etc.), along with test automation
• Excellent written & oral communication skills
• Agile development life-cycle experience with a strong knowledge of SDLC
• Ability to problem solve, apply reason, take initiative, use judgment, and perform multiple concurrent tasks
• Ability to prioritize, adjust, and push for completion of multiple tasks in a fast-paced organization

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with Transaction Reporting regulations such as CFTC/Dodd Frank, ESMA/EMIR, MIFID
• Good working experience with OTC derivative products and/or other financial products
• Distributed message system design/development
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Knowledge of how to build and use RESTful APIs
• Exposure to Front and Middle Office functions and controls

Education:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience

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 informationPay range$103,900.00 - $168,500.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis 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.BenefitsThis 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.