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 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!
 

Job Description:
This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.

LOB Position Summary

We are looking to hire a Senior Technology Manager to lead development for the cross-asset Algo Trading Engines platform for Global Equities Cash Technology, Global Futures and Global FX trading. The Algo Platform represents a strategic imperative to significantly upgrade our execution capabilities and expand a world class platform to win new clients seeking performant solutions in a highly competitive environment. The ideal candidate has significant practical experience in Electronic Trading of Equities in Java and a passion for modern software architecture and development practices. You will take on a key role within our Equities Cash Trading Technology team, working with multiple partners across organizations including senior leadership.  

Responsibilities:

Builds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectivesFacilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skillsManages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are metManages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organizationContributes to the technology strategy for their technical domainCreates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockersEnsures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholdersDriving the Equities Cash Technology Algo Trading platform strategy, with the goal of expanding the platform to enable new products, smarter algorithms and enable faster time to market for new trading use casesParticipating in the technical design and development of the Algo Trading platform, a set of highly performant Java components creating improved execution capabilities for internal and external clientsDemonstrate technical leadership by building technical solutions which deliver business value, which can continue to grow with the needs of the business over the next 3-5 yearsLiaising with the Equity LOB to drive a cohesive strategy supporting multiple workflows across lines of businessWorking with peers across Global Markets to deliver solutionsAnalyzing business requirements, forming an architectural design, overseeing cross team development and testing, and managing production issuesCollaborating closely with our Site Reliability Engineering group to achieve industry leading reliability and scalabilityDeveloping roadmaps for continuous platform improvement

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

Extensive experience in Java development on LinuxDirect exposure to building Electronic Trading applicationsAutomation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testingAbility to architect resilient, instrumented, distributed systems achieving world class reliabilityFamiliarity with Agile software development and associated best practicesEnthusiastic, strong-minded person able to work closely with project teams in a multi-faceted role and help instill a responsible and professional cultureStrong communication skills with technical and non-technical partners

Desired Qualifications

Deep knowledge of financial asset classes (particularly Equities) and algorithmic trading of these productsWorking knowledge in architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments Knowledge of C++ is a plus

Skills:

InfluenceRisk ManagementSolution DesignStakeholder ManagementTechnical Strategy DevelopmentAnalytical ThinkingApplication DevelopmentCollaborationResult OrientationSolution Delivery ProcessAgile PracticesArchitectureAutomationData ManagementDevOps Practices

Minimum Education Requirements - Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40