Software Engineer II - Python/Quartz

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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

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.

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

• Participating 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

• This job is responsible for developing complex features to deliver significant business outcomes in Global Market XVA EST Technology handling regulatory reporting.

• This position has been the critical resource working on various aspects of CPM XVA EST technology team.

• Involved in the requirement analysis received from Global Market risk and development/implementation of functionality as per the one pager/requirements document.

• Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in several technical competencies

• Involved in the development, reporting of assigned tasks and Unit testing using Quartz, Python, Oracle and SQL store procedures.

• Develop main programs and components used in the generation of quarterly, annually FRY 14Q template which are submitted to FED on each cycle based on new FED instructions or GMR enhancements.

• The team development environment is Oracle DB and Quartz - the bank’s trading and risk platform. Development needs strong Python and PL/SQL and Oracle DB expertise.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering or technology roles delivering and operating business-critical platforms.

• Strong experience in developing & supporting enterprise risk platforms/ applications, with a track record of improving reliability, quality, and operational performance.

• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design and Test Driven Development concepts

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability; strong verbal & written communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with senior technology and business leaders.

• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle practices, engineering governance, and modern delivery disciplines.

• Strong hands-on technical skills in object-oriented programming, with experience in Python and PL/SQL and Oracle DB

• Experience with Agile Methodology and JIRA tools 

Desired Qualifications:

• Prior experience in design & development of Risk or regulatory-facing applications/ services.

• Hands-on experience with Bank of America proprietary platforms such as Quartz is preferred.

• Familiarity with large-scale, distributed, or data-intensive platform.

• Experience driving engineering excellence, operational resilience, and continuous improvement.

• Experience operating in regulated financial services environments with strong control and governance expectations.

• Prior experience of Quartz development

• Experience on trading/ risk platforms

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 or equivalent work experience.

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