Vice President; 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!

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop complex requirements to accomplish business goals.

• Ensure that software meets functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.

• Ensure solutions are well designed with maintainability, ease of integration, and testing built in from the outset.

• Possess strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry, with extensive use of design and architectural patterns at this level, specialization typically occurs in Architecture, Test Engineering, or DevOps.

• Contribute to story refinement and define requirements.

• Participate in and guide the team in estimating work necessary to deliver a story or requirement throughout the delivery lifecycle.

• Perform spikes or proofs of concept as needed to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.

• Code solutions and unit tests to deliver requirements or stories based on defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.

• Utilize multiple architectural components—including data, application, and business layers—in designing and developing client requirements.

• Assist the team in resolving technical complexities during story implementation.

• Design, develop, and modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while maintaining architectural integrity.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for integration, regression, and performance testing.

• Set up and develop continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Automate manual release activities.

• Mentor other software engineers and coach the team on CI/CD practices and automation tools.

• Customize the Merchant Services fraud detection platform for payment transaction fraud detection using proprietary products such as the Lusis Fraud Detection Engine.

• Convert Experian PowerCurve decisions into in-built Drools Business Rules Management solutions.

• Remote work may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite.

Required Skills and Experience :

• Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Engineering (any), or related: and

• 3 years of experience in the job offered or a related IT occupation.

• Must include 3 years of experience in each of the following:

• Utilize tools, Splunk, ELK Stack, Apache Kafka, Brainiac rule engine, and Marvel rule engine to conduct fraud detection and oversee payment networks, leveraging rule engines for real-time decision-making, dynamic policy enforcement, and adaptive fraud prevention;

• Architecting and implementing scalable backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, REST specifications, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, API gateways, OAuth2, JWT, Spring Security, and CI/CD pipelines for robust, high-performance, and secure applications in order to conduct fraud detection and oversee payment networks;

• Designing and developing solution architectures to scale backend systems using Python, Java, Spring Boot and rest specifications;

• Utilizing f