Senior Engineer - GMT Data Acquisition Team

Job Description:

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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.

Job Profile Summary:

The Senior Engineer for Data Acquisition Team is a senior technology leadership role responsible for leading a high-performing global engineering team that delivers stable, scalable, and resilient capabilities for the Market Risk Suite. The role combines people leadership, engineering execution, hands-on technical depth, and operational ownership to ensure the platform meets business needs while continuously improving reliability, quality, and delivery outcomes.

Working across product, users, engineering teams, and operational partners, this leader sets direction, prioritizes outcomes, and drives execution across both day-to-day delivery and long-term platform improvement. Success in the role requires experience with large-scale enterprise risk platforms, strong system architecture and design leadership, solid hands-on technical skills in object-oriented programming, and the ability to lead effectively in a high-visibility, business-critical environment.

Responsibilities:

• Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
• Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
• Lead the engineering team responsible for data acquisition capabilities within the Market Risk Suite, with accountability for delivery quality, platform stability, architectural integrity, and execution against business priorities.
• Partner closely with product, business, and technology stakeholders to translate priorities into an executable engineering roadmap and measurable delivery outcomes.
• Set team priorities, allocate capacity effectively, and ensure the right balance across new development, production support, modernization, and engineering excellence initiatives.
• Lead collaboration across architecture, product, platform, and partner engineering teams to design and deliver cohesive solutions across a large-scale enterprise risk platform ecosystem.
• Represent the organization in engineering, delivery, and operational governance forums, ensuring priorities, risks, and dependencies are visible and actively managed.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or technology roles delivering and operating business-critical platforms.
• 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including direct people management, coaching, and performance development.
• Strong experience owning end-to-end engineering delivery for large-scale enterprise risk platforms, with a track record of improving reliability, quality, and operational performance.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business priorities into clear engineering plans, delivery roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Proven success managing cross-functional stakeholders and leading through complexity in large, matrixed organizations.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, including the ability to engage effectively with senior technology and business leaders.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle practices, engineering governance, backlog management, system architecture and design, and modern delivery disciplines.
• Strong hands-on technical skills in object-oriented programming, with experience in Java and Python.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams supporting Market Risk, Risk Analytics, or regulatory-facing platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Bank of America proprietary platforms such as Quartz is preferred.
• Familiarity with large-scale, distributed, or data-intensive platforms and the architectural leadership challenges associated with them.
• Experience driving engineering excellence, operational resilience, and continuous improvement across teams.
• Experience operating in regulated financial services environments with strong control and governance expectations.
• Track record of building strong teams and delivering measurable improvements in execution, reliability, and stakeholder confidence.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering

Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This 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.

Benefits

This 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.