Principal Engineer - GBS IND Mumbai, India;Madhapur, Hyderabad; Chennai, India **Job Description:** **About Us** At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day. One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being. Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization. Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us! **Global Business Services** Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations. Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation. In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services. **Process Overview*** Developer Experience is a growing department within the Global Technology division of Bank of America. We drive modernization of technology tools and processes and Operational Excellence work across Global Technology. The organization operates in a very dynamic and fast-paced global business environment. As such, we value versatility, creativity, and innovation provided through individual contributors and teams that come from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe in an Agile SDLC environment with a strong focus on technical excellence and continuous process improvement. **Job Description*** We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Principal Engineer to drive the design, modernization, and delivery of secure enterprise-grade applications at scale. In this role, you will shape architectural decision, introduce modern engineering practices, and influence platform and product teams to build secure, scalable, and observable systems. This is a high-impact technical leadership role for a proven engineer passionate about cloud-native architecture, developer experience, and responsible innovation. **Responsibilities*** + Lead architecture, design and development of modern, distributed applications using modern tech stack, frameworks, and cloud-native patterns. + Provide hands-on leadership in designing system components, APIs, and integration patterns, ensuring high performance, security, and maintainability. + Define and enforce architectural standards, reusable patterns, coding practices and technical governance across engineering teams. + Guide the modernization of legacy systems into modern architectures, optimizing for resilience, observability, and scalability. + Integrate secure-by-design principles across SDLC through threat modeling, DevSecOps practices, and zero-trust design. + Drive engineering effectiveness by enhancing observability, developer metrics and promoting runtime resiliency. + Champion the responsible adoption of Generative AI tools to improve development productivity, code quality and automation. + Collaborate with product owners, platform teams, and stakeholders to align application design with business goals. + Champion DevSecOps, API-first design, and test automation to ensure high-quality and secure software delivery. + Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and design patterns that improve engineering efficiency and platform consistency. + Mentor and guide engineers through design reviews, performance tuning and technical deep dives. **Requirements*** **Education*** + Graduation / Post Graduation : BE/B.Tech/MCA **Certifications If Any:** NA **Experience Range*** + 17 to 20 Years **Foundational Skills*** + Proven expertise in architecting large-scale distributed system with a strong focus on Java-based cloud-native applications using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and API-first design; experience defining reference architectures, reusable patterns, and modernization blueprints. + Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes/OpenShift including service mesh, autoscaling, observability and cost-aware architecture. + In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL data platforms (e.g.: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) including data modeling for microservices, transaction patterns, distributed consistency, caching strategies, and query performance optimization. + Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, GitOps and DevSecOps practices for secure, automated application delivery; strong understanding of API lifecycle, runtime resiliency, and multi-environment release strategies. + Strong grasp of threat modeling, secure architecture principles, and zero-trust application design with experience in integrating security throughout the software development lifecycle. + Demonstrated experience using GenAI tools (e.g.: GitHub Copilot) to enhance the software development lifecycles – prompt engineering for code generation, automated test creation, refactoring, and architectural validation – with a responsible use, prompt design and maximizing engineering efficiency. **Desired Skills*** + Experience modernizing legacy applications to modern cloud native architectures [e.g.: Microservices, Event-Driven etc.] + Experience with big data platforms or architectures supporting real-time or large-scale transactional systems would be a big plus. + Exposure to AI/ML workflows, including integration with ML APIs, and orchestration of AI-powered features. + Demonstrated ability to explore emerging technologies like platform engineering, internal developer tooling and AI-augmented architecture. **Work Timings*** + 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM IST **Job Location*** Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. 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