Software Engineer II

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.

This role is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the role include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. This role codes solutions, unit tests, and ensures the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. They are familiar with development and testing practices of the bank.

DevEx is a growing department within the Global Technology division at Bank of America that is responsible for:

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
• Improving the experience for our developers, making it easier to deliver industry-leading solutions, while managing work efficiently and with the right controls
• Advancing our technology platforms through innovation
• Deliver the best digital experience for those managing the technology division
• For our teammates and customers Drive accessibility of applications
• Reducing risk and improving quality across our technology portfolio by aligning to a single enterprise architecture strategy and delivering governance that enables consistency, integration, and automation

Required Qualifications:

• Broad and deep experience designing solutions across varied software development platforms and environments including GitHub CoPilot and Microsoft CoPilot Studio (both low-code and pro-code).
• Strong, independent, ownership focused technical leader requiring minimal oversight including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
• Design and/or development experience with complex, integrated, high volume applications for resiliency and performance leveraging both application (e.g. caching, replication) and infrastructure components (e.g. load balancers, clustering)
• Knowledge of security aspects of integrated system design and associated protocols e.g. AAA, token based auth, encryption
• Process expertise across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) i.e. requirements definition, build, test, deploy, release, operate
• Ability to provide clear, concise technical guidance to the delivery partners along (e.g. developers, engineers) with comprehensive status communication to program management (e.g. product owners, scrum masters)
• Ability and desire to perform hands on POC work to comprehensively assess applicability and impact of technology and patterns to our solution designs

Desired Qualifications:

• Effective Communication: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Team Collaboration: Strong skills in working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including developers, architects, and business analysts.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to learn and adapt to new technologies, tools, and methodologies in a fast-paced environment.
• Problem-Solving: Proactive approach to identifying and resolving complex issues with innovative solutions.

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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40