Senior 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 defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

This role is responsible for defining an architectural vision and architecture for large, complex solutions, which align with the enterprise architecture strategy, technology and platform choices for the defined domain (Business, Application, Data and Technology). Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment, evaluating system impacts and determining the primary systems/subsystems and their interfaces, assisting with end-to-end solution design where needed, defining non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and expand into new opportunities. This role ensures the solution is fit for purpose and use by working with stakeholders, vendors/service providers, and evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions. They also contribute to best practices, standard templates, and the architecture roadmap for defined domains.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements
• Facilitate solution-driven discussions and design complex systems using domain expertise, experimentation, and POCs. Partner with Product to prioritize architecture runway work that enables business features and new opportunities. Guide development teams with clear architecture, system design support, and solution options to resolve impediments.
• Conduct design/code reviews to ensure non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, usability) are met. Support technology selection and preferred product standards. Educate teams on best practices, standards, and modern engineering approaches to deliver innovative, scalable solutions.
• Drive architecture across Business, Application, Data, and Technology domains aligned to the product roadmap. Establish best practices and standardized templates. Define solution intent and architectural vision for complex initiatives, iterating with an evolving backlog. Lead rapid, high-level architecture shaping; ensure designs are modular, flexible, and adaptable to changing requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• Solution Design - Has demonstrated expertise in solution design across multiple technologies. Can identify opportunities for technical training and coaching across the organization.
• Test Engineering - Has demonstrated expertise in testing strategies and tools. Can identify opportunities for technical training and coaching across the organization.
• DevOps and Release Automation - Designs, develops and rolls out best practices for CI/CD processes and tools. Identifies gaps and enables teams to adopt DevOps culture for continuous value delivery.
• Application Data Architecture - Designs architectures for an area or division. Builds the business-technology relationship through aligning business goals and strategy with technology implementation.

Desired Qualifications:

• Solution Delivery Process - Drives adoption and continually improves processes in the solution delivery process across teams.
• Governance Stakeholder Management - Decides the governance needed for an area. Defines the stakeholders for their area and maps them to strategic objectives and requirements.
• Business Products Strategy - Strong knowledge of products and services at functional and data level within their business area. Participates in development or integration of lean/ efficiency initiatives into technology.
• Risk Management - Identifies risks/dependencies that are not easily evident. Defines controls needed to resolve/mitigate.
• Financials Resource Management - Ability to track project/value stream variances in order to ensure work aligns with project/value stream objectives.
• ·Planning, Execution Process - Facilitates program/portfolio level planning ceremonies against backlog/ prioritized work. Manages risk/dependencies/impediments. Ability to answer program/portfolio level Agile/waterfall framework questions.
• Analytical Thinking - Develops frameworks for solving a range of complex problems. Can foresee future problems and define resolutions/new opportunities.
• Promotes Collaboration - Collaborates with cross-business/technology. Focuses on how to improve the collaboration capabilities of others.
• Influences Decisions - Builds alliances with both internal and external stakeholders to gain support and buy-in on ideas. Partners effectively with business stakeholders and leverages industry knowledge.
• Achieves Sustainable Results - Sets KPI's for teams to follow. Makes decisions about technology that will increase or deliver business value.

Skills:

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

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$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 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.