Data Engineer III

Bank of America; Jersey City, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive eligibility

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Data Management/Database Specialist to drive complex data solutions, focusing on data lineage, transformation, and migration within regulatory contexts. You will collaborate with vendors, stakeholders, and Product and Software Engineering teams to implement data requirements and ensure data quality.

The role involves leading data pipelines, mentoring engineers, and ensuring on-time delivery with strong data controls across regulatory projects.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of relevant experience.
• Strong hands-on RDBMS with Sybase ASE / IBM DB2 LUW / Oracle.
• Experience with Data Lineage and ADS sourcing.
• Experience with database migrations.
• ETL experience with Informatica.

Responsibilities

• Lead story refinement and delivery of requirements through the lifecycle and assist teammates with technical complexities.
• Code complex data integration, cleaning, transformation, and control pipelines; build data processes and datasets.
• Document system requirements, liaise with development teams, and leverage architecture components to meet data needs.
• Lead testing teams, develop test plans, and manage integration, regression, and performance testing.
• Drive data management standard adherence with partners, communicating solutions to complex problems.
• Oversee data pipelines to enable data-informed decision making and ensure timely delivery with risk management.
• Mentor Data Engineers and monitor KPIs and internal controls.
• Manage ADS and regulatory data lineage; support data migration and reconciliation tasks.
• Collaborate with database architects, security teams to resolve issues and execute migrations.

Skills

RDBMS expertise

Data lineage

Informatica ETL

DB migrations

Performance testing

Tools

Informatica

Job description

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 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!

Job Description

This job is responsible for driving efforts to develop and deliver complex data solutions to accomplish technology and business goals. Key responsibilities include leading code design and delivery tasks with the integration, cleaning, transformation and control of data in operational and analytical data systems. Job expectations include liaising with vendors and working with stakeholders and Product and Software Engineering teams to implement data requirements, analyzing performance, and researching and troubleshooting issues within system engineering domains.

Position Summary

The Data Management, Database Specialist will help execute regulatory project requiring data lineage while also driving key data platform migration initiatives. This employee will also work in projects that involve data migration, intensive testing, and security/compliance assurance related to data projects.

Responsibilities

• Leads story refinement and delivery of requirements through the delivery lifecycle and assists team members in resolving technical complexities
• Codes complex solutions to integrate, clean, transform, and control data, builds processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, data quality controls, dependency, and workload management, assembles complex data sets, and communicates required information for deployment
• Leads documentation of system requirements, collaborates with development teams to understand data requirements and feasibility, and leverages architectural components to develop client requirements
• Leads testing teams to develop test plans, contributes to existing test suites including integration, regression, and performance, analyzes test reports, identifies test issues and errors, and leads triage of underlying causes
• Leads work efforts with technology partners and stakeholders to close gaps in data management standards adherence, negotiates paths forward by thinking outside the box to identify and communicate solutions to complex problems, and leverages knowledge of information systems, techniques, and processes
• Leads complex information technology projects to ensure on-time delivery and adherence to release processes and risk management and defines and builds data pipelines to enable data‑informed decision making
• Mentors Data Engineers to enable continuous development and monitors key performance indicators and internal controls
• Authoritative Data Sourcing (ADS) management.
• Regulatory reporting data lineage
• Create automation, write scripts to perform functionality, reconciliation.
• Create automation, write scripts to facilitate data migration, reconciliation, and integrity validation.
• Work closely with database architects, database developers, application and security teams to resolve issues.
• Execute database migration projects.
• Support cutover execution and post-migration stabilization.

Required Qualifications

• 7-10 years of applicable experience
• Strong hands‑on experience with RDBMS, on Sybase ASE, IBM DB2 (LUW) or Oracle database platforms.
• Data Lineage and ADS sourcing management experience
• Experience with database migrations.
• Experience working with ETL tools especially Informatica.
• The best practices and regulated environments are preferred.

Desired Qualifications

• Database migration experience.
• Strong knowledge and skills in database technologies
• Data Migration and Reconciliation knowledge
• Performance engineering
• performance and volume testing
• Working in a large team environment with various skills and stakeholders

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Data Quality Management
• Financial Management
• Solution Delivery Process

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101), US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park (NY1540)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range$104,000.00 - $157,700.00 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.