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 driving data engineering efforts to deliver enterprise-wide capabilities and complex data solutions. Key responsibilities include directing code design and delivery tasks associated with the integration, cleaning, transformation, and control of data in operational and analytical data systems and working with the Project Management team to define outcomes and inform work structures. Job expectations include providing technical thought leadership by implementing complex data solutions and interactions across multiple systems and domains.

Overview:

The Senior Technology Lead is a strategic and hands‑on technology leader responsible for overseeing software development, technology administration, platform engineering, and team leadership. This role drives the design, development, and operational excellence of enterprise platforms while ensuring alignment with business goals. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise, proven leadership experience, and a strong ability to deliver scalable, secure, and high‑performing technology solutions.

• Develop and execute technology strategies that support business objectives and future growth.
• Lead and mentor engineering, administration, and platform teams; foster a high-performance, collaborative culture.
• Establish best practices for development, DevOps, cloud operations, and platform management.
• Partner with product, architecture, risk, and business stakeholders to drive technology roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

• Assembles large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring that the design and engineering approach is consistent across multiple systems
• Maintains, improves, cleans, and manipulates large data for operational and analytics data systems, builds complex processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, data quality controls, dependency, and workload management, and communicates required information for deployment, maintenance, and support of business functionality
• Utilizes multiple architectural components in the design and development of client requirements and collaborates with development teams to understand data requirements and ensure the data architecture is feasible to implement
• Defines and builds data pipelines to enable data-informed decision making, ensuring adherence to release processes and risk management routines
• Contributes to existing test suites including integration, regression, and performance, analyzes test reports, identifies any test issues and errors, and leads triage of underlying causes
• Leads the identification of gaps in data management standards adherence and works with appropriate partners to develop plans to close gaps, leading concept testing and conducting research to prototype toolsets and improve existing processes
• Mentors Data Engineers in the delivery and release of continuous integration and continuous delivery events and defines key performance indicators and internal controls

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:

• 12+ years of experience in software development, platform engineering, or enterprise technology roles
• 7+ years in a leadership or management role with responsibility for teams and strategic initiatives
• Strong understanding of database technologies, networking, security, and system administration
• Hands on end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC), including design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Hands on expertise in delivery of high-quality applications using modern engineering practices (agile, CI/CD, test automation)
• Guide teams in adopting scalable architectures, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native patterns
• Administer and support IBM Spectrum Scale System(ESS) 6000 clusters to ensure high availability, resilience and scalability
• Install, configure and maintain NSD servers, GPFS clusters
• Monitor, analyze and optimize storage performance, throughput, and capacity planning
• Troubleshoot and resolve system issues, ensuring minimal downtime. Perform root-cause analysis of service disruptions and implement preventive measures
• Collaborate with stakeholders in maintaining the infrastructure (applying patches, swing to a backup data center etc.)
• Must have experience in Incident management, Service Request, Change management and Problem Management
• Automate and monitor utilizations and take necessary actions to remediate bottlenecks
• Strong knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Enterprise Infrastructure (patching, upgrade, backup, monitoring etc.)
• Perform root-cause analysis of system failures, identify bottlenecks, and establish preventive measures
• Must have experience handling performance issues, system optimization and be able to mentor junior team members with best practices
• Must have working experience in an enterprise wise shared services environment
• Knowledge of data protection, backup, and disaster recovery strategies
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace etc.)

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of SRE practices, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and event-driven architectures
• Certifications in cloud, security and expertise in cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, or GCP), distributed systems, API platforms, and DevOps
• Oversee and maintain infrastructure and system installations including configuration, testing and upgrades
• Implement and maintain backup, redundancy and security of the storage systems
• Knowledge of Storage Systems, NSD, GPFS
• Troubleshoot issues with system, collect logs, raise vendor case, work with vendor

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Collaboration
• Decision Making
• DevOps Practices
• Business Acumen
• Data Quality Management
• Financial Management
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$128,000.00 - $182,300.00 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.