Bank Of America Software Engineer III - Python Development Equity Linked Technology 

United States, New York, New York 

764423478

Job Description:

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, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

Candidates will be proficient in software design, ideally focused on real-time/batch risk systems, and executed using agile methodologies (Scrum, Test Driven Development, unit/integration testing, pair programming, etc.). The successful candidate will be comfortable driving design and architecture and rationalizing business requirements. There will be significant interaction with senior developers across other work streams as we integrate an increasingly complex product set.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements

• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained

• Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack

• Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle

• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

• Automates manual release activities

• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)

• Design and develop new features within existing Python services

• Contribute to future design and architecture

• Plan work in an agile manner with other team members

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of technology development experience and specifically 2+ years of experience in development of front-office derivatives risk systems. (Previous experience of working with SN and SP is a plus.)

• Ability to define relevant areas of the roadmap and articulate the vision to senior stakeholders, product owners and teams.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, interpersonal skills and demonstrate the capability for juggling multiple competing priorities.

• Demonstrable experience of having designed and developed complex server-side functionality in Python

• Proficient in writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests

• Comfortable in an agile working environment

• Self-starter and proactive

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Java and/or modern web UI technologies; HTML5, React, RESTful services, Websockets

• Derivatives Risk domain knowledge (Greeks and Scenarios)

• Equity Derivatives product knowledge (Futures, Options, Convertibles)

Skills:

• Application Development

• Automation

• Influence

• Solution Design

• Technical Strategy Development

• Architecture

• Business Acumen

• DevOps Practices

• Result Orientation

• Solution Delivery Process

• Analytical Thinking

• Collaboration

• Data Management

• Risk Management

• Test Engineering

Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience