Software Engineer III - Pega

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, 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.

Developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Ensure 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. Develop and test practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns. Serve as Senior Pega Developer responsible for design, development and maintenance of overall applications including re-usable classes and frameworks, component design, UI design providing scalable and resilient solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements. Design and implement PEGA Enterprise Class Rules, Flows, Activities, Reports, Correspondence, Case Management and Integrations, Data Pages, Agents, UI design, Dashboards, Reports, troubleshoot and debug. Utilize Pega Infinity, Cosmos UX, Containers, Configuration and Oracle database query optimization for performance testing execution, troubleshoot and fix issues identified in load volume test. Automate testing, package deployment and verification, and monitoring the application.

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)

• Analyze production issues and provide root cause resolution

• Ensure Information Security findings and Audit compliance requirements are addressed

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of relevant work experience

• Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role - PEGA CLSA, Oracle SQL, JavaScript, Java, HTML, CSS3, SOAP, REST/JSON, XML, UI/COSMOS

• Design and development of overall applications including re-usable classes and frameworks, component design, UI design providing scalable and resilient solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.

• Design and implement PEGA Enterprise Class Rules, Flows, Activities, Reports, Correspondence, Case Management and Integrations, Data Pages, Agents, UI design, Dashboards, Reports, troubleshoot and debug.

• Utilize Pega Infinity, Cosmos UX, Containers, Configuration and Oracle database query optimization for performance testing execution, troubleshoot and fix issues identified in load volume test.

• Automate testing, package deployment and verification, and monitoring the application.

• Developing robust data modelling of Pega applications for enhanced development efficiency and data integrity.

• Integrating Pega applications with external systems and technologies such as databases, messaging systems and webservices

• Designing security features such as role-based access control and attribute-based access control for fine-grained control, dynamic access decisions and reduce administrative overhead of Pega based applications 

• Ensuring compliance with Pega best practices to achieve higher-quality application, increased efficiency, reduced risk and better maintainability

• Fine tuning Pega applications to reduce latencies or delays in processing business workflows

Desired Qualifications:

• Agile Scrum, Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Splunk, Kafka, Hadoop, Reports, Selenium, Microservices and APIs, Deployment automation, unit test automation, CI/CD tools

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

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - CA - Westlake Village - 31303 Agoura Rd - 31303 Agoura Road (CA6917)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$102,900.00 - $179,900.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.