Data Engineer - Apprentice

Bank of America; Gandhinagar; On-site; INR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking final-year students for a Global Technology data engineering track in India. The role emphasizes building data pipelines, ensuring data quality, and collaborating across distributed teams to meet business goals.

Qualified students should have a CS/CE/IT degree with strong fundamentals in data management, analytics, and modern ETL tools. Open to multiple Indian locations with shift flexibility and a campus internship vibe.

Qualifications

• Eligible final year students from the Class of 2027 only.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/IT with good academic record.
• CGPA 70% in last semester or CGPA 7/10 with no backlog at applying.
• Certifications are a plus but not required.
• Open to roles listed in the job description and willing to work in India.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver data engineering solutions to meet business goals.
• Design data pipelines and ensure data quality and lineage.
• Collaborate with teams to meet acceptance criteria and testing needs.
• Contribute to test plans including integration and performance testing.
• Support deployment, maintenance, and data governance standards.
• Work with global partners to resolve data management gaps.

Skills

Data management

Data analytics

Transformations

DevOps practices

Solution design

Agile practices

Collaboration

Risk management

Test engineering

Architecture

Data quality management

Solution delivery process

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Major Specialization: Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Information Technology

CGPA: 70% in last semester or CGPA 7/10 with no backlog

Final year students from Class of 2027

Certifications: Good to have

Tools

Hadoop

HDFS

Spark

Yarn

Hive

Sqoop

Impala

Hue

Python

SQL

Scala

Spark Streaming

Kafka Shell Scripting

ETL

Quartz

Teradata

Datastage

Tableau

Job description

Job Description:

Job Description:

About Us

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!

Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Job Description

The Global Technology division manages the critical systems and platforms that form the backbone of the company's retail, commercial and institutional businesses, as well as key support functions globally.

We develop and deploy leading-edge technologies in areas such as mobile and online banking, payments processing, technology infrastructure, cyber-security, risk and capital management and enterprise data management.

Global Technology teams remain on the cutting edge of innovative learning through our focus on immersive technology. We were the first financial institution to offer a comprehensive set of tools leveraging technology like virtual reality, artificial intelligence and practice simulations within our financial centers. As a member of our team, you will use leading technology solutions and integrated platforms to ensure that our customers and clients can leverage the services and bank with us anytime, anywhere.

Skills exposure/Opportunity to work in areas such as:

Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, Yarn, Hive, Sqoop, Impala, Hue, Python, SQL, Scala, Spark Streaming, Kafka Shell Scripting, ETL, Quartz, Teradata, Datastage, Tableau

Responsibilities:

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.

• Works across development teams to contribute to the story refinement and delivery of data requirements through the delivery life cycle
• Leverages architecture components in solution development and collaborates with team members to code solutions to integrate, clean, transform, and control data in operational and analytical data systems per the defined acceptance criteria
• Builds processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, data quality controls, dependency, and workload management and defines and builds data pipelines to enable data-informed decision making
• Participates in the development and execution of test plans to produce quantitative results, contributes to existing test suites including integration, regression, and performance, analyzes test reports, identifies test issues and errors, and supports triage of underlying causes
• Contributes to information technology projects to ensure on-time delivery and adheres to team delivery and release processes
• Assists team members with identifying, defining, and documenting data engineering requirements and communicates required information for deployment, maintenance, support, and business functionality
• Works with technology partners and a diverse set of stakeholders to identify and close gaps in data management standards adherence, negotiates paths forward, and helps to identify and communicate solutions to data problems.
• Understand the application life cycle & data lineage and provide support to make sure the application flow succeeds and have right data.
• Build and monitor key controls on applications to ensure the application availability remains near no downtime and data validations succeeds.

Requirements:

Educational Qualifications: Eligible Final year students from the Class of 2027 ONLY

• Degree Type: Bachelor’s Degree
• Major Specialization: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology
• CGPA: 70% in the last semester OR CGPA of 7 on a scale of 10 in the last semester with no pending backlog subjects at the time of applying with us

Certifications: Good to have if any

Work Experience: N/A

Foundationalskills:

• Data Management
• Data Analytics & Transformations
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Collaboration
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering
• Architecture
• Data Quality Management
• Solution Delivery Process

Desired Skills:

• Can implement solutions based on requirements or based on one’s own innovative ideas
• Have the willingness and aptitude to work in global distributed teams
• Have attention to detail and strong work ethics

Other Requirements:

• Students with Indian citizenship and residing in India
• Students should be open for any roles that they are finally selected as per the listed Job Descriptions
• Students should be open to join any of our 5 locations namely –MUMBAI, CHENNAI, GURUGRAM, HYDERABAD, GIFT CITY. Not all campus roles are available in all locations. Location preference will not be given to the students.

Students must be open to work in any shifts, including night shifts, rotational shifts as per business or process requirement