Bank Of America Software Engineer II 

United Kingdom, England, Chester 

49388139

Corporate Title: Up to Assistant Vice President

Training and development are a core part of the team ethos and is available through a variety of different means – we have a great online learning portal as well as providing more formal external training for niche requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements.
• Participate in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.
• Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilize multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements.
• Automate manual release activities.
• Be a good technologist who is inquisitive and has a desire to learn.

What we are looking for:

• Good Java development experience.
• Good knowledge of:
• Core Java, JEE.
• Spring Framework – particularly SpringMVC, SpringBoot, SpringBatch.
• REST.
• Unix scripting (BASH).
• Junit.
• Mocking (JMock/Mokito).
• Hibernate.
• Experience of Oracle DB – PLSQL scripting.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools – ex. Jenkins, XLR, Ansible.
• Experience with Agile / SCRUM Programming project methodologies.
• Experience using software configuration management systems (Git/BitBucket).
• Experience working with colleagues in other (global) locations.
• Ability to seek out information with little direction.

Skills that will help:

• JMS
• Websphere MQ.
• Acceptance Test Driven Development (JBehave, Cucumber).
• AngularJS.
• Splunk.
• Experience with secure coding practises.
• Mulesoft.
• Domain Driven Design.
• Experience in the Banking domain, particularly Treasury and Payments.

UK

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.