Incident Management Lead

Bank of America; Pennington (NJ); On-site; USD 74,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America in New Jersey is looking for an Incident Management Lead to guide triage for production incidents across multiple applications, ensuring timely restoration and clear communication with customers and leadership.

This role requires strong analytic and collaborative skills, experience in SQL and monitoring tools, and the ability to manage on-call duties within a busy, security-conscious environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in a Production Support or Incident Management role.
• Ability to lead triage calls and communicate with leadership.
• Strong technical skills to interpret monitors, dashboards, and logs.

Responsibilities

• Leads production support triage efforts, manages bridge line troubleshooting, engages in technical research, and escalates issues to leadership as needed
• Ensures all impacts are accurately recorded and documented in the system of record, oversees that documents and wikis are updated and available for use during triage, and supports the documentation of application flows, upstream/downstream impacts during outages, the customer experience, and contacts for support needs
• Identifies and/or validates business impacts through interpretation of monitors, dashboards, and logs to communicate with leadership and vendors
• Manages activities to identify incident root cause, resolution, preventative actions, and change requests, and reports on incident data quality
• Promotes and enforces production governance during triage/testing and identifies production failure scenarios, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement
• Serves as a subject matter expert for applications within a portfolio, leveraging extensive knowledge of application functionalities and application flows
• Assesses and prioritizes research requests, ad hoc reports, and offline incidents at the direction of senior team members and delegates work as needed to team members and peers

Skills

Production Support

Incident Management

SQL

Communication

Analytical Thinking

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

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’s 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!

LOB Description:

The Incident Management Lead provides support issues related to Incidents and Problem Management, for multiple applications, with the primary focus on triage leadership of all business impacting incidents. Responsibilities of this role include understanding and ensuring compliance with the Incident Management and Problem Management policies and procedures. This role is the key focal point for the Customer/client/associate experience and owns re storing any impacts to those experiences regardless of where the root cause of the impact lies.

LOB Responsibilities:

• Lead production support triage efforts for low to moderate impacting incidents, manage bridge line troubleshooting and appropriate team engagement, engage in technical research and troubleshooting, and elevate to next level of leadership as needed
• Lead to identify business impact, interpret monitors, dashboards, and logs; write queries to accurately calculate impacts as applicable to the line of business and validate impacts and communicate all impacts to leadership, communications channels and so on
• Provide status updates and technical detail for awareness communications, ensure accuracy of all communications sent, and ensure any necessary reconvenes are scheduled
• Communicate clearly with all levels of management
• Identify possible production failure scenarios, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement, and take ownership of escalation.
• Support 24 x 7 On Call responsibilities for any business impacting incident
• Participate in the documentation of application flows, upstream/downstream impacts during outages, the customer experience in failure scenarios, contacts for various support needs and ensures appropriate documents and wikis are up to date and available for use during triage
• Responsible for the data quality and completion of incident tickets
• Direct and work research requests, ad hoc reports and offline incidents

Job Description:

This job is responsible for providing front-line support to end users, responding to issues related to incidents and problem management governance for multiple applications, and leading triage activities on all business impacting incidents. Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with incident management and problem management policies and procedures, serving as a focal point for the customer, client, and associate experience, restoring complex production incidents under tight Service Level Agreements, and pursuing root cause and problem resolution follow ups.

Responsibilities:

• Leads production support triage efforts, manages bridge line troubleshooting, engages in technical research, and escalates issues to leadership as needed
• Ensures all impacts are accurately recorded and documented in the system of record, oversees that documents and wikis are updated and available for use during triage, and supports the documentation of application flows, upstream/downstream impacts during outages, the customer experience, and contacts for support needs
• Identifies and/or validates business impacts through interpretation of monitors, dashboards, and logs to communicate with leadership and vendors
• Manages activities to identify incident root cause, resolution, preventative actions, and change requests, and reports on incident data quality
• Promotes and enforces production governance during triage/testing and identifies production failure scenarios, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement
• Serves as a subject matter expert for applications within a portfolio, leveraging extensive knowledge of application functionalities and application flows
• Assesses and prioritizes research requests, ad hoc reports, and offline incidents at the direction of senior team members and delegates work as needed to team members and peers

Managerial Responsibilities:

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Creates an inclusive team where members are treated fairly and respectfully.
• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates and expects process knowledge, data driven decisions, simplicity and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Delivers clear and concise messages that motivate, convey the “why” and connects contributions to business results.
• Risk Manager: Leads and encourages the identification, escalation and resolution of potential risks.
• People Manager & Coach: Knows and develops team members through coaching and feedback.
• Financial Steward: Manages expenses and demonstrates an owner’s mindset.
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Recruits, on-boards and develops talent, and supports talent mobility for career growth.
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience in a Production Support environment or Incident Management
• Able to provide critical thinking and diagnostic skills
• Ability and experience working independently and as a Team Player
• SQL Query exposure
• Able to multitask in a fast-paced environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Experienced with Information Security technologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to lead and manage a production triage call
• Experience in a Production Support environment
• Experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and other monitoring tools
• Problem Solving
• Analytical skills
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks
• MS Office Suite
• Ability to Prioritize deliverables
• Networking basics / fundamentals

Skills:

• Adaptability
• Analytical Thinking
• Influence
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Automation
• Collaboration
• Innovative Thinking
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Project Management
• Solution Delivery Process
• Stakeholder Management

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$73,600.00 - $143,800.00 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.