Lead Python Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title: Lead Python Engineer

Corporate Title:  VP

Location:  Dublin

Company Overview:

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Location Overview:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll  find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

The Team:

The role sits within the Platform Engineering team, a global team of approximately 10 engineers, with leadership based in Dublin.

The team works closely with Risk stakeholders and business partners, supporting critical Market Risk platforms and delivering high-impact projects.

The environment is collaborative, delivery-focused, and technically challenging, offering strong exposure to enterprise-scale systems and strategic transformation initiatives.

Role Description:

We are seeking a Lead Python Engineer to join our Market Risk Technology Platform Engineering team, based in Dublin. This role has been created to support a major cloud migration programme and to strengthen our core engineering capability across critical risk platforms.

The successful candidate will play a key role in designing and delivering high-performance, data-intensive solutions within a global Market Risk environment. This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical expertise with team leadership and delivery ownership.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on large-scale transformation initiatives with direct impact on risk and trading systems, collaborating closely with business stakeholders, risk managers, and global technology teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical delivery of the Sailfish database cloud migration programme
• Architect and design scalable, high-performance solutions for data-intensive risk platforms
• Manage and guide a team of engineers, including work allocation, prioritisation, and technical oversight
• Drive engineering best practices across development, testing, and deployment processes
• Develop and maintain core Python applications within a complex Market Risk ecosystem
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Risk, business, and technology teams
• Identify and resolve complex system and data issues, ensuring platform stability
• Contribute to platform strategy, tooling improvements, and long-term architecture decisions

What we are looking for:

• Extensive experience in Python development within enterprise-scale systems
• Export level SQL and database expertise, including performance tuning and data modelling
• Proven experience leading technical delivery and managing engineering teams
• Experience working with large-scale, data-intensive platforms and complex architectures

Skills that will help:

• Experience in Market Risk or financial services platforms (a distinct advantage)
• Familiarity with Sailfish, DB2, or similar enterprise data platforms
• Experience with cloud migration or modernisation programmes
• Exposure to risk analytics, regulatory systems, or trading platforms

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

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• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.
• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.
• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.
• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.