Bank of America Hiring for Software Engineer III Job at London, England Full Time

Job Description:

Job Title: Front Office Software Engineer Credit Trading Technology

Corporate Title: Up to Vice President

Location: London

Bank of America:

We are a financial services company offering a wide array of opportunities across many functions. Our focus on the financial success of our clients – individuals, companies and institutional investors – shapes the way that we organize ourselves and run our business.

Global Technology delivers technology services globally across the bank’s eight lines of business that serve individuals, companies and institutions. The team also focuses on digital banking, payments, infrastructure, data management and technology that enhances cyber security, and risk and capital management.

Innovation is at the heart of all Global Technology does. As a member of Global Tech, you will use leading technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence, as well as improved processes, to build our business. The team has replaced core platforms and simplified its infrastructure to improve speed to market. Its private cloud provides an environment that is scalable and secure. Global Tech uses data and analytics to enhance service, provide solutions and deepen relationships.

Role Description:

The role will be responsible for Supporting the Market data and Pricing function across Commodities

Front office. The role will be responsible for building and supporting the roll out of the Commodities

Curve management framework and application and the Commodities Pricing application.

Day to day responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for developing and delivering complex software requirements to accomplish business goals.
• Ensures that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.
• Codes solutions, unit tests, and ensures the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust and well-tested interfaces.
• Contributes to story refinement/defining requirements.
• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Codes solutions and unit tests to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilizes multiple architectural components in design and development of client requirements.
• Collaborate with team to resolve technical complexities involved in realizing the story work.
• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance). Analyse test reports, identify and fix Test suite failures.
• Documents and communicates required information for deployment, maintenance, and support.
• Participates, contributes in the delivery/release e.g. branching timelines, pull requests, issue triage, merge/conflict resolution, release notes.

The Team:

Commodities Market Data is responsible for developing an in-house suite of applications, that serves as providers of all market data to the commodities line of business. It sources live market prices for the various commodity traded products from the various market data providers and make them available for Front-Office business operations, and assist in price fixings. The prices are fed to downstream Commodities applications for intra-day and end of day Profit and Loss view,

Trade Bookings and Settlements.

The team has a flat structure and works in a very collaborative manner. It is a global team spit across

India, London and Houston. The presence in London is relatively small. The team has established its

culture and development methodology and follows an established Software Development Lifecycle.

The team has successfully built and delivered a number of applications that have reduced operational

Risk and simplified daily business processes.

Core Skills:

• Strong development experience using Python, REST API Service, C#
• Several years of extensive experience working as a full stack React JS developer (familiarity with redux a plus)
• Exposure to enterprise messaging solutions (e.g. MSMQ, TIBCO EMS, AMPS or related technology).
• Database development skills, experience with Object-oriented and Relational databases – SQL Server/Oracle/Sybase.
• Experience developing software using Agile methodology.
• Knowledge of JIRA tools and Continuous Integration capabilities.
• Familiarity with web services, web sockets and microservice based architecture is a plus
• Hands on experience in writing unit and UI integration test cases.
• Strong interpersonal skills and experienced in communicating complex solutions with both technical and business users.
• Excellent ability to debug applications.
• Experience of Second Level Application Support.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and task with minimal oversight and supervision.

Desired Skills-

• Source code management – Bit Bucket/Git
• Experience in Financial/Commodities Trading/Investment Banking.
• Worked as part of globally distributed teams.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements. As part of our standard hiring process to manage risk, please note background screening checks will be conducted on all hires before commencing employment.

Job Band:

H5

Shift:

Hours Per Week:

35

Weekly Schedule:

Referral Bonus Amount:

0