Software Engineer II - Python

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 88,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a software engineer for their Insight Regulatory Reporting platform in Jersey City. The role requires strong Python skills and experience in Agile practices, with responsibilities including software development, testing, and stakeholder management. Ideal candidates will have a strong educational background and experience working in the financial sector.

Benefits

Discretionary incentive eligible

Industry-leading benefits

Paid time off

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applicable experience in software development.
• Experience with Agile practices and managing multiple stakeholders.
• Fluency in Python and experience with RDBMS and Data Modelling.

Responsibilities

• Develops solutions, ensuring they meet functional and compliance requirements.
• Participates in CI/CD activities and contributes to story refinement.
• Codes solutions and performs unit testing per acceptance criteria.

Skills

Application Development

Automation

Collaboration

DevOps Practices

Solution Design

Agile Practices

Architecture

Result Orientation

User Experience Design

Analytical Thinking

Data Management

Risk Management

Technical Strategy Development

Test Engineering

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

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 being a diverse and 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 Description:

This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

LOB Job Description:

• We are seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Insight Regulatory Reporting platform supporting the Global Markets NFRR area. This position is part of US based scrum team engaging stakeholders principally in the US region.
• The primary technology used by the team is Python and leverages the banks proprietary Quartz platform which is backed with a broader technical stack including Oracle Exadata, Tableau, SQL server, Elastic Search, 60 East AMPS.
• The role will encompass designing and developing solutions, enhancing our automated testing capabilities. Being a Python/Quartz application, solid Python skills are highly advantageous though we would consider proven software engineers transitioning from other languages.
• The ideal candidate will join a wider organization which spans the globe in locations including London, Bromley, Chicago, New York, India and Singapore - this role in based in New Jersey.
• This regional team was established to deliver US centric regulatory reporting including the FINRA TRACE solution in 2022 and will deliver the prospective securities lending SLATE (SEC 10c1a) obligation in 2026.
• The broader Regulatory technology group currently operates with 16 scrum teams each focused on specific projects within Regulatory space over 100 staff globally.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of applicable experience
• Experience of developing products through lifecycle of delivery (Agile practices)
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholders
• Experience of enterprise design requirements preferably at Bank of America or similar large investment bank
• Experience as a Python developer, or similar development language
• Fluency in the Python language + Standard libraries, preferably quartz or similar (e.g. JPMs Athena platform)
• Knowledge of test-driven development/BDD
• Experience with RDBMS and Data Modelling

Desired Qualifications:

• Grid computing
• Openshift and containerized services
• Java
• NoSQL/Document Oriented databases – Cassandra, MongoDB
• Highly Available/Scalable Search – Elasticsearch
• Knowledge of BofA enterprise standards
• Knowledge of BofA application landscape
• Knowledge key regulations Mifid, EMIR, SFTR, CFTC, TRACE
• Knowledge of data modelling including bank internal (QzM, XA) and industry initiatives such as CDM

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• User Experience Design
• Analytical Thinking
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering 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 and benefits information Pay range $88,800.00 - $145,000.00 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.