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!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for planning and coordinating the execution of large program deliverables which requires engagement across multiple organizations. Key responsibilities include communicating target outcomes, coordinating delivery, resource planning, providing visibility of program health, and managing program risks, compliance and financials. Job expectations include ensuring delivery meets the client’s expectations in terms of the target outcomes, timeline, and cost and facilitating sync points between business and technology leaders and Risk and Compliance partners.

This role serves as a senior program leader responsible for driving the successful execution of complex, enterprise-scale transformation initiatives within the Audit and Risk technology portfolio, including CACR 2.0. The Senior Delivery Lead will own end-to-end program strategy, governance, and delivery across highly regulated environments, ensuring seamless coordination across technology, audit, and risk teams. This leader will be accountable for structuring large, multi-workstream programs, establishing scalable governance, navigating enterprise approvals, and integrating emerging technologies—such as AI—into existing audit platforms with strong oversight, control, and auditability.

Responsibilities:

• Leads and coordinates routines to support delivery of large programs, such as kick-offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, and tollgates
• Broadens relationships with business and technology leaders across multiple organizations, as well as Compliance and Risk
• Establishes target outcomes in partnership with stakeholders and leaders
• Tracks success metrics and provides status updates to stakeholders and leadership pertaining to the target outcomes, delivery, performance, risks, issues, and schedule
• Collaborates with sponsors and stakeholders to ensure that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements
• Manages program financials and supports resource planning
• Ensures adherence with Enterprise Change Management standards
• Strategic Program Leadership
• Provide leadership and accountability for large-scale, complex programs across audit and risk technology domains, ensuring alignment to business strategy and delivery of measurable outcomes.
• Program Structuring & Execution
• Design and operationalize program frameworks, delivery models, and execution strategies for multi-year transformation initiatives spanning audit workflow modernization, analytics, and platform enablement.
• Governance Design and Facilitation
• Establish and lead governance structures, including executive forums, decision-making frameworks, and reporting mechanisms to ensure transparency, control, and effective oversight.
• Enterprise Approval Navigation
• Lead programs through enterprise governance tollgates and approval processes, ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Emerging Technology Integration (AI & Advanced Capabilities)

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 7 years of project management experience, with 2-3 years in sr. project management roles
• Ability to engage with sr. stakeholders and executives
• Strong understanding of AI capabilities and framework
• Excellent communication - capable of executive briefings and clear, concise messaging and ability to influence across multiple organization levels
• Understanding of the Bank’s initiative financial management practices
• Strong proficiency in the Bank’s governance processes
• 1-2 years AI experience (inclusive of experience with Bank’s AI and Model Governance policies and experience bringing models to production through Bank processes)
• Ability to effectively convey complex information concisely
• Support of program management tools and techniques in alignment with the bank Change and Project Management Framework
• Ability to interact with business leaders and internal technology groups
• Process-oriented; able to navigate bank policies and procedures
• Experience with JIRA, PCM, PPRT, NEXUS, etc.
• Proficiency with PowerPoint, specifically producing executive-level updates
• Strong strategic thinker and the proven ability to execute
• Strong relationship management and organizational skills along with ability to identify and prioritize work load
• Acts as the project subject matter expert to support delivery deadlines, governance routines, cross project dependencies and budget
• Formally manages change controls for scope, schedule, and budget targets to adhere to bank Change Management policies

Skills:

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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$115,000.00 - $190,000.00 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.