Senior Engineer

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!

Position Summary

The Senior Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and supporting high‑quality technology solutions that enable Bank of America’s business objectives. This role serves as a senior technical contributor and may act as a technical lead on complex initiatives, ensuring adherence to enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and engineering best practices.

The Senior Engineer works closely with product owners, architects, and cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure applications in a regulated environment. This position requires strong problem‑solving skills, hands‑on technical expertise, and the ability to mentor junior engineers.

This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements

Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering ,Computer Science ,IT ,or Job related field required
• 4+ years of job related experience required .
• Strong hands‑on experience with one or more enterprise technology stacks (e.g., Java, APIs, Spring, cloud platforms, or equivalent).
• Experience building and supporting distributed or multi‑tier applications.
• Object‑oriented design and design patterns
• RESTful services and integration patterns
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Application security fundamentals
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum or SAFe environments.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem‑solving skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with containerization, messaging platforms, or event‑driven architectures.
• Prior experience leading technical workstreams or acting as a feature/technical lead.
• Relevant technical or cloud certifications.

Skills:

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Solution Delivery Process

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40