Senior Real-Time Data Streaming Architect

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 104,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Data Streaming Engineer to design and deliver real-time data pipelines using Apache Flink and Confluent Kafka, modernizing legacy batch systems into streaming-first architectures.

You will lead data integration, transformation, and quality across ITSM platforms and enterprise data systems, collaborating with architecture and platform teams while mentoring others.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience with strong focus on data engineering.
• 5+ years in data warehousing, data lakes, or MDM systems.
• Deep expertise in streaming platforms and data lakehouse architectures.
• Proficient in Python, PySpark, or Java/Scala for data engineering.

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

Skills

Data engineering

Stream processing

Real-time analytics

Leadership

Mentoring

Problem solving

Tools

Apache Flink

Confluent Kafka

Apache Iceberg

Python

SQL

PySpark

Java/Scala

Job description

Bank of America in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Data Streaming Engineer to design and deliver real-time data pipelines using Apache Flink and Confluent Kafka, modernizing legacy batch systems into streaming-first architectures.

You will lead data integration, transformation, and quality across ITSM platforms and enterprise data systems, collaborating with architecture and platform teams while mentoring others.