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Feature Lead Technology

AT Merrill
Merrill

Feature Lead Technology

Jersey City, NJ

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.

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for providing leadership, technical direction and oversight to a team delivering technology solutions. Key responsibilities of the job are to provide oversight of the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex computer programs, align technical solutions to business objectives, and ensure that coding practices/quality comply with software development standards. Job expectations include conducting multiple software implementations and applying both depth and breadth in knowledge of several technical competencies.

Position Summary

Responsible for developing and delivering end to end solutions to accomplish business goals. Provide leadership, technical direction and oversight to a team delivering technology solutions. Provide oversight of the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex computer programs, align technical solutions to business objectives Perform programming, Data Analysis and Business Analysis .Develop design solutions, test scenarios, and ensure the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust and well-tested interfaces. Drive story refinement/defining requirements. Participates and guides team 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.

Responsibilities:

  • Designs, develops and is accountable for feature delivery
  • Applies enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality
  • Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt
  • Guides the team on work breakdown and execution
  • Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria
  • Plays a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team
  • Guides team members with skills and practices (planning and estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices)
  • Act as a single point of contact for the work assigned from inception to post production. Accountable for feature delivery
  • Attention to detail and accuracy are essential, with excellent analytical/problem solving skills
  • Ability to connect the dots across various applications and business processes, document data flows and identify gaps
  • Understand the Business requirements clearly through Initiating and participating in Refinement sessions and ensure enterprise standards for solution and design are met.
  • Works with Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Translate business requirements into functional and in turn into technical requirements
  • Provide support for compliance, regulatory and audit requests
  • Perform in-depth data analysis activities and come up with work break down, low-level & High level design strategies
  • Work effectively within a fast-paced environment
  • Quickly adapt to change and prioritize time effectively

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of IT experience working on large, complex systems
  • Ability to work with Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Excellent written & oral communication skills
  • Agile development life-cycle experience with a strong knowledge of SDLC
  • Ability to problem solve, apply reason, take initiative, use judgment, and perform multiple concurrent tasks
  • Ability to prioritize, adjust, and push for completion of multiple tasks in a fast-paced organization
  • Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
  • Identify risks, mitigation plans and escalate timely
  • Collaborate with Data architects and other global team members in data analysis in turn aid to build effective solutions
  • Conduct design/solution review sessions with all the stakeholders (PO, Data Modelers, DDM etc.)
  • Validate data at every stage (Pre SIT, SIT and UAT and Production) to make sure functional/business scenarios are addressed
  • Adhere to ADS documentation and CI/CD guidelines
  • Be an innovative thinker for continuous improvement of domain, data and application capabilities
  • Provide leadership and mentor team for success
  • Analyze complex queries, stored procedures to understand legacy and current processes
  • Competency to wear multiple hats in a team
  • View requirements from global banking product & portfolio management perspective to understand business benefits
  • Take personal ownership of tasks and issues as they arise to find resolution.
  • Expertise in Analytical Thinking, Attention to Detail, Problem Solving and Innovative thinking skills
  • Strong communication and presentation skills (both to technical and non-technical audience)
  • Exposure to Client Data domain knowledge
  • Ability to effectively communicate across organization depending on audience i.e. in Tech speak (detail) and business speak (exec summary)
  • Proficiency with query tools to aid data analysis - Strong PL/SQL skills - Ability to write and analyze complex queries, stored procedures
  • Expertise with Microsoft Office suite usage
  • Good to have exposure to Hadoop
  • Experience with Oracle Exadata or 10g and above
  • Know-how working in Agile/ scrum teams for Prioritization of work and resource assignments
  • Good with identifying priorities and managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Know-how effort and financials estimation

Desired Qualifications

  • Strong business knowledge with Wholesale Credit products & Client Onboarding / KYC
  • General understanding of client data and how it's used and
  • Familiarity with Enterprise data standards and data quality remediation processes

Skills:

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

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$103,900.00 - $168,500.00 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.

Client-provided location(s): Jersey City, NJ, USA
Job ID: Merrill-JR-24041871
Employment Type: Full Time