Job Description:

Overview (Bank of America overview, BA Continuum India overview, Business Overview)

Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. We are committed to attracting and retaining top talent across the globe to ensure our continued success. Along with taking care of our customers, we want to be the best place for people to work and aim at creating a work environment where all employees have the opportunity to achieve their goals.

We are a part of the Global Business Services which delivers technology and operations capabilities to Bank of America lines of business (LOB) and enterprise functions.

Our employees help our customers and clients at every stage of their financial lives, helping them connect to what matters most. This purpose defines and unites us. Every day, we are focused on delivering value, convenience, expertise and innovation for individuals, businesses and institutional investors we serve worldwide.

* BA Continuum is a nonbank subsidiary of Bank of America, part of Global Business Services in the bank.

Process Overview

Global Banking & Markets division serves mid- to large-sized corporations and institutional clients worldwide. It is comprised of Business Banking, Global Commercial Banking, Global Corporate & Investment Banking, Global Markets and Wholesale Credit. Aligned with these client-facing groups are Global Capital Markets and Global Research. The Shared Technology Platforms is a portfolio under the GBAMT Strategy, Architecture and Core Platforms portfolio. The portfolio is responsible for designing, building and maintaining high performing software systems that are used by the Global Banking and Markets Technology employees globally. These are Technology for Technology tools that cater to varying project management needs including but not limited to forecasting, hiring, resource lifecycle management, etc.

Job Description

A Software Engineer will be part of a small team of technically strong individuals. The position demands a high degree of initiative, commitment and technical excellence. As an individual contributor, a Software Engineer performs coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the application development process. Being a Software Engineer may direct a few junior level software engineers. A Software Engineer contributes to moderately complex aspects of a project and can work under tight deadlines. Work is generally independent and collaborative in nature. A Software Engineer has a record of successful delivery of software applications as an individual and with a team. A Software Engineer has the vision for what needs to be done, without specific direction. A Software Engineer would be able to lead and collaborate in the development effort while also providing innovative and creative solutions. The position needs a strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC), desire to implement continuous delivery and integration within the development life cycle, understand agile software development methodologies and principles. Willingness and ability to dive into technical issues within environments. A Software Engineer is self-motivated, self-managed, team-player, action & results-focused, has a high command of verbal and written English and able to clearly communicate design, architecture, implementations and requirements. A Software Engineer in Global Banking & Markets division would build sophisticated and complex risk applications.

Responsibilities

• Support both the evolution and continued development of existing applications and the design and delivery of new applications in an agile environment

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements

• Design, develop, deploy, configure, document and debug software, while properly escalating issues to meet deadlines

• Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development life cycle, and ensure reuse of code

• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features

• Troubleshoot and debug existing software and correct defects

• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments

• Enhance functionality to be used and shared by a large community of developers

• Ability to lead and collaborate in the development effort while also providing innovative and creative solutions

Requirements

Education: B.E. / B. Tech/M.E. /M. Tech/B.Sc./M.Sc./BCA/MCA (prefer IT/CS specialization)

Certifications, If Any: NA

Experience Range: 6 - 8 years

Foundational skills:

• Expertise and working experience in Python

• Knowledge of computer science data structures and algorithms

Desired skills:

• An interest in financial markets (capital markets, market indices and various securities)

• A proactive approach to problem solving and think innovatively

• Good communication, organizational and multi-tasking skills; independently work with various stakeholders

• Maintain high standard and follow best practices by re-factoring existing code to enhance readability, performance and general structure

Work Timings: General Shift (11:00 a.m. to 08:00 p.m.)

Location: Chennai