Senior Engineer - GBS IND

Bank of America; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a senior technology leader to drive modernization of the US Payments - Wires platforms in India. The role focuses on scalable engineering, resiliency, automation, and meeting control and security standards.

The candidate will guide feature teams, partner with architecture, product, operations, and risk teams, and ensure successful delivery for Tier-1 payment rails across multiple locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level engineering degree or higher.
• 17+ years of experience in technology delivery for payments.
• Strong leadership and ability to manage large delivery teams across locations.
• Proven architecture and delivery skills for large-scale modernization in payments.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization for mission-critical US Payments - Wires platforms.
• Drive architecture, delivery planning, and engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with architecture, product, operations, and risk partners.
• Mentor engineers and grow delivery teams toward production readiness.

Skills

Tech leadership

Software architecture

Microservices & cloud

Roadmap planning

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Java & messaging

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Java

Kafka

Angular

Docker

Kubernetes

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. 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!

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.

Process Overview

Global Markets Technology (GMT) and Global Payments Solutions Technology (GPST) groups provide end-to-end technology solutions for Global Banking and Markets businesses including Treasury, Trade Finance, Payments, Transaction Banking, Equities Trading, Prime Brokerage, Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities, Derivatives and Structured Products.

GMT & GPST groups have around 8000 resources in India and is involved in delivery of tech solutions for 1400+ applications. The group primarily delivers architecture, design, development, management, implementation and support using a wide range of technologies. The Delivery teams are doing extensive work in several regulatory, strategic and initiatives programs. In addition, the group has also established a strong partnership with the GBAM operations team in India to deliver automation and functional enhancements to the applications they are using

Job Description

This role is responsible for leading technology delivery and modernization for mission-critical US Payments - Wires platforms. The VP will drive transformation across Fedwire, CHIPS, SWIFT MT/MX, ISO 20022, routing, settlement, investigations, exception handling, and related integration services, with a clear focus on scalable engineering, resiliency, automation, and business outcomes.

The role requires strong wires modernization experience and deep hands-on technology credibility. The candidate should be able to convert modernization objectives into executable architecture and delivery plans, guide feature teams, partner with architecture, product, operations, compliance, fraud, and risk partners, and ensure solutions meet the control, resiliency, performance, and security standards expected for a Tier-1 payment rail.

A critical focus for this role is to modernize and build services around a vendor payment platform using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, Oracle and/or distributed databases, Angular, APIs, microservices, and a modern containerized deployment model with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud or private-cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues such as message parsing failures, routing defects, latency issues, data integrity gaps, resiliency failures, and integration errors.
• Experience working with regulatory and control expectations across OFAC, AML, sanctions, risk controls, audit, security, resiliency, and operational readiness.
• Strong partnering and influencing skills to work across architecture, product, operations, compliance, fraud, risk, and global engineering teams.
• People and delivery leadership experience managing or leading feature teams, senior engineers, and cross-functional delivery squads, with the ability to improve engineering maturity and mentor technical talent.
• Exposure to AI/GenAI, agentic solutions, or automation-led engineering productivity improvements will be an added advantage.

Requirements

Education: B.E./B. Tech/M.S./M. Tech or equivalent engineering qualification from a reputed institution.

Certificates if any: NA

Experience Range: 17+ yrs.

Foundational Skill

• Strong technology leader with proven experience delivering large-scale modernization and transformation programs in Payments, preferably Wires, within a bank or financial services organization.
• Strong software engineering and architecture capability, with the ability to guide design, delivery, quality, resiliency, and production readiness for complex payment platforms.
• Deep experience in modern engineering practices including microservices, event-driven architecture, APIs, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, containerization, Kubernetes, and agile delivery.
• Ability to translate business and regulatory priorities into practical technology roadmaps, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience leading medium to large delivery teams or multiple feature teams across India and/or global locations.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, mentoring, and collaboration skills across technology, product, operations, risk and compliance partners.
• Exposure to a wide range of technology stacks including Java, messaging platforms, data platforms, workflow systems, analytics, and automation solutions.

Desired skills

• Experience in wires platform modernization, ISO 20022 migration, real-time payments, payment message transformation, or vendor payment platform integration.
• Experience creating a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Understanding of AI-first engineering practices, GenAI-enabled productivity, or agentic solutions for modernization and remediation use cases.

Work Timings: 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

Job Location: Hyderabad/Chennai