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. 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!

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, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

LOB Specific Summary

Post Trade Technology (PTT) provides technology solutions and services for capital markets operations within Bank of America Merrill Lynch.  We have development teams in Chicago, New York, Toronto, London, and India with business users in those locations and also Charlotte, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

An experienced Python developer is being sought to assist in building the next phase of our strategic OTC derivative confirmations platform in 2024+ for equity derivatives and FX Options.  Coordination across all regions and development locations will be required to deliver a confirmation solution that will provide STP confirm generation and matching for equity derivatives.

Technology stack will primarily be a Python based in house framework used front to back for pricing, trade capture, risk management, lifecycle management, confirmation, and settlement with a shared code base across all of capital markets technology groups.  A distributed object oriented database with a high speed search cache and a document generation vendor product SmartDX will also be used extensively.

The candidate will be responsible for contributing to all phases of the Agile development process and L3 production support.  Interaction with our business, subject matter experts, and developers within and outside of the PTT will be required.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Required Qualifications

• Technical Skills:

• 5+ yrs of object oriented programming and design (C++, Java, Python, etc...)
• 2+ years Python
• Unit testing framework
• Object oriented databases

• Non-Technical Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication

Desired Qualifications

• OTC derivative product knowledge
• OTC derivative operations processes
• Agile SDLC processes
• Test-driven development
• Distributed systems
• Linux
• XML
• FpML

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• User Experience Design
• Analytical Thinking
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering

Minimum Education Requirement - Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40