Senior Data Streaming Engineer

Bank of America; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Data Streaming Engineer to design and deliver real-time data pipelines using Apache Flink and Confluent Kafka. The role focuses on modernizing data integration patterns and enabling real-time analytics across ITSM and infrastructure domains.

The ideal candidate will lead complex data engineering projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement streaming-first architectures and Iceberg-based lakehouse tables.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience with a strong focus on data engineering.
• 5+ years in data warehousing, data lakes, or MDM systems.
• Strong experience with Apache Flink (stream processing, event time, windowing, stateful processing).

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.

Skills

Data engineering

Streaming data

Real-time pipelines

Mentoring

Tools

Apache Flink

Confluent Kafka

Apache Iceberg

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 being 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!

Position Summary

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. Infrastructure Information Services is seeking a Senior Data Streaming Engineer to design and deliver a modern, real-time data platform supporting Infrastructure and ITSM domains. This role focuses on building scalable, low-latency data pipelines using event-driven architecture and stream processing technologies, while evolving legacy batch-oriented systems into a streaming-first ecosystem. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in data engineering, stream processing, and data lakehouse architectures, with hands-on experience using Apache Flink, Confluent Kafka, and Apache Iceberg. This individual will help modernize data integration patterns, improve data freshness, and enable real-time analytics aligned with enterprise data management standards.

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
• Design and implement real-time data pipelines using Apache Flink and Confluent Kafka
• Transform legacy batch and RDBMS-based data workflows into event-driven streaming architectures
• Build and optimize streaming ingestion, transformation, and enrichment pipelines
• Develop and maintain Iceberg-based data lakehouse tables to support both streaming and analytical workloads
• Ensure data quality, reconciliation, and consistency across streaming and batch systems
• Optimize performance of streaming jobs, including state management, checkpointing, and scalability
• Design efficient partitioning, schema evolution, and storage strategies using Iceberg
• Integrate data across multiple systems including ITSM platforms (e.g., ServiceNow)
• Collaborate with architecture and platform teams to establish best practices for streaming data frameworks
• Support CI/CD, deployment, and operational monitoring of streaming pipelines

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience with strong focus on data engineering
• 5+ years in data warehousing, data lakes, or MDM systems
• Strong experience with: Apache Flink (stream processing, event time, windowing, stateful processing)
• Strong experience with:Apache Flink (stream processing, event time, windowing, stateful processing)
• Confluent Kafk