Bank Of America Principal Engineer - GBS 

India, Maharashtra, Mumbai 

912885997

Responsibilities*

• Lead architecture, design and development of modern, distributed applications using modern tech stack, frameworks, and cloud-native patterns.
• Provide hands-on leadership in designing system components, APIs, and integration patterns, ensuring high performance, security, and maintainability.
• Define and enforce architectural standards, reusable patterns, coding practices and technical governance across engineering teams.
• Guide the modernization of legacy systems into modern architectures, optimizing for resilience, observability, and scalability.
• Integrate secure-by-design principles across SDLC through threat modeling, DevSecOps practices, and zero-trust design.
• Drive engineering effectiveness by enhancing observability, developer metrics and promoting runtime resiliency.
• Champion the responsible adoption of Generative AI tools to improve development productivity, code quality and automation.
• Collaborate with product owners, platform teams, and stakeholders to align application design with business goals.
• Champion DevSecOps, API-first design, and test automation to ensure high-quality and secure software delivery.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and design patterns that improve engineering efficiency and platform consistency.
• Mentor and guide engineers through design reviews, performance tuning and technical deep dives.

Education*

• Graduation / Post Graduation : BE/B.Tech/MCA

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Experience Range*

• 17 to 20 Years

Foundational Skills*

• Proven expertise in architecting large-scale distributed system with a strong focus on Java-based cloud-native applications using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and API-first design; experience defining reference architectures, reusable patterns, and modernization blueprints.
• Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes/OpenShift including service mesh, autoscaling, observability and cost-aware architecture.
• In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL data platforms (e.g.: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) including data modeling for microservices, transaction patterns, distributed consistency, caching strategies, and query performance optimization.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, GitOps and DevSecOps practices for secure, automated application delivery; strong understanding of API lifecycle, runtime resiliency, and multi-environment release strategies.
• Strong grasp of threat modeling, secure architecture principles, and zero-trust application design with experience in integrating security throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated experience using GenAI tools (e.g.: GitHub Copilot) to enhance the software development lifecycles – prompt engineering for code generation, automated test creation, refactoring, and architectural validation – with a responsible use, prompt design and maximizing engineering efficiency.

Desired Skills*

• Experience modernizing legacy applications to modern cloud native architectures [e.g.: Microservices, Event-Driven etc.]
• Experience with big data platforms or architectures supporting real-time or large-scale transactional systems would be a big plus.
• Exposure to AI/ML workflows, including integration with ML APIs, and orchestration of AI-powered features.
• Demonstrated ability to explore emerging technologies like platform engineering, internal developer tooling and AI-augmented architecture.

Work Timings*

• 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM IST

Job Location*

Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad