Senior Software Engineering (Java & Distributed Technologies)

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 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.

LOB Specific Job Description:

Bank of America is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Software Engineer to join our cutting-edge technology team. In this role, you will leverage your deep expertise in Core Java/Scala . The Core Java Big Data developer will be responsible for designing and delivering next generation event processing, alerting and analytics system. The candidate would be hands on developer working within Bank of America Global Markets Equities Data and Analytics group, building systems that help the Bank leverage the power of data helping a wide variety of users including front office execution services consultants, sales traders, data scientists and compliance. The role involves working with large volumes of data generated at very high velocity, typically billions of messages a day with peaks of several thousands of messages per second. Candidates must have a passion for building efficient, scalable and highly resilient systems working in a collaborative environment with multiple stake holders. Experience working with Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud platforms (AWS/ Azure /GCP ) is highly desirable.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of technology within a global financial institution, where you will work on complex technical challenges and contribute to high-impact initiatives. The successful candidate will possess advanced technical expertise, outstanding communication skills, and a strong ability to lead teams in delivering scalable, high-performance software solutions.

Team members will be playing a critical role in strategic multi-year initiatives to simplify and modernize the technology stack as it relates to regulatory reporting across multiple jurisdictions, including some of the following reports and activities.

• FINRA Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT)
• FINRA Electronic Blue Sheets (EBS)
• Trading Activity Fees (TAF)
• EMIR and MIFID II

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
• Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Automates manual release activities
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)
• Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable, high-performance applications using Java.
• With large-scale distributed technologies like Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, and Apache Storm to ensure seamless data processing and messaging at scale.
• Provide expertise in Java multi-threading, concurrency, and other advanced Java concepts to ensure the development of high-performance, thread