Software Engineer III - Pricing & Quoting Technology

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.

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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.

LOB Position Summary:

This role is for the Regional Lead of Pricing & Quoting Technology and will oversee the strategic direction, governance, and delivery of the implementation of our global equity derivatives pricing platform. This includes leadership of the pricing architecture, roadmap execution, and the end to end request for quote (RFQ) workflow used by Sales and Trading, along with connectivity to external market platforms.  This role ensures regional alignment with global strategy while shaping local innovation, ensuring resilience, scalability, and competitive advantage in electronic and voice driven derivatives trading.  

Candidates will be proficient in software design focused around a cross-language REST based n-tier architecture and executed using agile methodologies (Scrum, Test Driven Development, unit/integration testing, pair programming, etc). The successful candidate will be comfortable driving design and architecture, rationalizing business requirements and mentoring less experienced developers. There will be significant interaction with senior developers across other work streams as we integrate an increasingly complex product set.

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)
• Development of a thorough understanding of our entire technology stack
• Design and development of new features in the existing java server stack, C# client and QZ
• Contribution to future design and architecture
• Planning work in an agile manner with other team members
• Writing acceptance tests in coordination with QA
• Communication with our business and platform partners
• Improvement and development of our CI pipeline and deployment strategies​

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of applicable technology experience
• Proficient and experienced in either Java or C# - familiarity with the other a bonus
• SQL – preferably Oracle 
• Shell scripting and basic Unix knowledge desirable
• Proficient in writing unit, integration and acceptance tests
• Comfortable in an agile working environment
• Self-starter and proactive ​​

Desired Qualifications:

• ​​Equity Derivatives, DevExpress, Python​​, C#, Java​​

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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park (NY1540)

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.