Sr Data Technology Analyst

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
 

Job Description:

This role is responsible for partnering with teams to deliver trusted, timely, and secure data and information products and services that align with the data technology strategy. Key responsibilities include assisting with an inventory of applications in the data flow for bank data domains and supporting their adherence to enterprise and global data and records management standards. Job expectations include implementing transport controls, extracting data sets to perform analysis, remediating data incidents, and promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices.

Team Overview:

Global Risk Analytics (GRA) and Enterprise Independent Testing (EIT) are sub-lines of business within Global Risk Management (GRM). Collectively, they are responsible for developing a consistent and coherent set of models, analytical tools, and tests for effective risk and capital measurement, management and reporting across Bank of America. GRA and EIT partner with the Lines of Business and Enterprise functions to ensure the capabilities it builds address both internal and regulatory requirements, and are responsive to the changing nature of portfolios, economic conditions, and emerging risks. In executing its activities, GRA and EIT drive innovation, process improvement and automation.

The team is primarily responsible for developing and executing data quality testing related to financial and non-financial regulatory reports. This role requires deep technical expertise supported by strong critical reasoning and problem solving skills. This roles core focus will be developing data tests for regulatory reports and other critical uses of data across the Enterprise. This role will be responsible for design, development and execution of data quality testing across various data uses. This will also require collaborating with key stakeholders (business / technology) to support timely completion of testing activities while ensuring adherence to established testing framework(s) / coding standards.

Candidate needs to be able to successfully operate across multiple projects and deliver in a timely manner. Be able to operate & manage work in a high-stress environment. Proactively identify process and procedural enhancements with respect to testing and testing tools. Be able to engage with peers, managers, and executives.

Required Job Skills:

• 3-5 years of experience in Data Testing/Quality, Application Management and/or Data Management

• 3+ years of hands on experience using Python in developing data applications / backend service / analytics / statistics

• Data ETL, DB development, SQL, Hadoop, Macros, VBA, Excel/Access, PowerPoint

• Strong data quality knowledge (Accuracy, completeness, timeliness dimensions, data risk mitigation, etc.)

• Strong understanding of database concepts like (views, primary keys, table joins)

• Involvement with Data Transformation and Data Capture testing in Transport and Capture data lifecycle

• Practical experience developing applications while adhering Software Development Life Cycle(s) (SDLC)/Coding Standards/JIRA tracking  

• Strong oral & written communication and comfortable presenting to a wide variety of audiences

• Comfortable leading and influencing with and without direct authority

• Resourceful/ proactive in situations when not all information is available or there is no apparent “right” answer

• Strong understanding / experience on Automation tools (UFT / Selenium etc.)

• Capable to navigate conflict to enable productive solutions

• Close attention to detail

• Banking Domain and Financial Regulatory Reporting Knowledge

Preferred Skills: