Senior Data Platform Engineer — Scale & Architecture Lead

Bank of America Corporation

Greater London

On-site

GBP 95,000 - 140,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare for you and your 가족

Annual health screen

Pension plan

Life assurance

Group income protection

Maternity/paternity leave

Wellbeing support

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Bank of America Bromley is seeking a Senior Engineer to help shape the future of our strategic Post Trade Data Platform. You will join a horizontal engineering team with global scope and contribute to scalable, resilient systems that enhance data accessibility and quality.

The role requires deep JVM language expertise, strong distributed data platform experience, and mentoring of engineers. Expect exposure to Spark, Flink, Kubernetes, and modern data formats within a collaborative,

Qualifications

Deep solid expertise in Scala, Java, or another JVM language, including performance optimisation and tuning.
Strong experience with database technologies including Oracle Exadata at scale, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or similar data platforms.
Solid Cloud and DevOps knowledge, including Linux/Unix, OpenShift/Kubernetes, and Ansible.
Experience building and supporting reactive, event-sourced systems.
Hands-on experience with Apache Spark and Apache Flink.
Strong understanding of Apache HTTP, Envoy, and REST API design.
Experience working with Protobuf, Avro, and Parquet data formats.
Knowledge of Iceberg, Databricks, and Hadoop ecosystems.
Follows TDD, ATDD and Clean Coding practices and used to setting up or working in an environment using CI/CD using tools such as Jenkins with build tools like Gradle
Experience of Scrum/ Agile methods
Experienced in using design patterns and following best software engineering practices

Responsibilities

Build innovative, scalable, and resilient solutions that advance the strategic data platform.
Define and drive the architecture and strategy to support the future needs of Operations and the business.
Provide technical leadership through architecture, design, code reviews, and pull request reviews, championing high standards of code quality and engineering excellence.
Mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement in platform capabilities, development practices, and operational effectiveness.