Feature Lead - Technology - GenAI Platform

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 106,500 - 173,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Annual discretionary award

Industry-leading benefits

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Feature Lead for their Generative AI platform in Jersey City, NJ. This role involves providing leadership and technical direction to a team responsible for implementing a new GenAI platform. You'll ensure the integration of business use cases while overseeing software development from requirements analysis to deployment. The position requires strong proficiency in Python, experience in developing APIs, and knowledge of microservices architecture. Join a company that values inclusive work culture and offers competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing & implementing multi-tier (including microservices) application platforms.
• High coding proficiency in Python and Unix scripting.
• In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge in full range of front-end languages, libraries & frameworks.
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with stakeholders.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops and is accountable for feature delivery.
• Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt.
• Guides the team on work breakdown and execution.
• Plays a team lead role and mentors the team.
• Develops and trouble‑shoots high‑performance APIs.
• Implements distributed caching mechanisms, containerization, and message queues.

Skills

Automation

Influence

Result Orientation

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Architecture

Business Acumen

Risk Management

Solution Delivery Process

Solution Design

High-performance API Development

Asynchronous Programming

Distributed Caching (e.g. Redis)

Message Queues

CI/CD Pipelines

OpenTelemetry

Authentication and Authorization Mechanisms

Education

Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

Tools

FastAPI

Python

Unix scripting

Oracle

MySQL

MongoDB

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

jQuery

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in‑office culture with specific requirements for office‑based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role‑specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Profile Summary

Generative AI (GenAI) presents an exciting opportunity to derive valuable insights from data and drive revenue growth, efficiencies, and improved business processes. Technology will collaborate with Global Markets Sales & Trading, Quantitative Strategies & Data Group (QSDG) & Platform teams to the design and buildout its global GenAI platform.

Platform will cater to a rapidly growing number of use cases that harness the power of GenAI, leveraging both proprietary and open‑source Large Language Models, and large structured and un‑structured data sets to provide insights to Global Markets Sales & Trading, QSDG, Research, and Operations.

We are seeking a Feature Lead to provide leadership, technical direction and oversight to a team responsible for the implementation of GM's new GenAI platform. In this role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate business use cases into the platform while ensuring these solutions are reusable, scalable and sustainable.

Hands‑on engagement in the full software lifecycle activities is expected. This includes requirements analysis, architecture design, coding, testing, and deployment. You will be responsible for driving projects forward, mentor junior team members, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops and is accountable for feature delivery

• Applies enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality

• Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt

• Guides the team on work breakdown and execution

• Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria

• Plays a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team

• Guides team members with skills and practices (planning and estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices)

• Develops and trouble‑shoots high‑performance APIs using FastAPI and Python

• Implements distributed caching mechanisms, containerization and message queues for scalable systems

• Ensures CI/CD pipelines are in place for automated testing and deployment

• Design, develop, and is accountable for feature delivery of the end‑to‑end platform implementation and related business use cases

• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle

• Establish standards and lead the charge on automation for end‑to‑end SDLC efficiency

• Implement hardware upgrade & software enhancement to meet global performance expectations

Required Qualifications

• Experience in designing & implementing multi‑tier (including microservices) application platforms

• High coding proficiency in Python and Unix scripting

• In‑depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Oracle, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB), and large structured & unstructured dataset processing

• Knowledge in full range of front‑end languages, libraries & frameworks (e.g. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, XML, React, jQuery)

• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with various stakeholders

• Critical thinking and problem‑solving skills are essential

Desired Qualifications

• Experience implementing data analytics / AI solutions

• Knowledge of machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch, LLM fine‑tuning, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and tools for agentic solutions

Skills

• Automation

• Influence

• Result Orientation

• Stakeholder Management

• Technical Strategy Development

• Architecture

• Business Acumen

• Risk Management

• Solution Delivery Process

• Solution Design

• High‑performance API Development

• Asynchronous Programming

• Distributed Caching (e.g. Redis)

• Message Queues

• CI/CD Pipelines

• OpenTelemetry

• Authentication and Authorization Mechanisms

Minimum Education Requirement

Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40

Pay Transparency Details

US - NJ – Jersey City – 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)

Pay range: $106,500.00 – $173,700.00 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.