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 building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

Builds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectivesFacilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skillsManages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are metManages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organizationContributes to the technology strategy for their technical domainCreates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockersEnsures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders

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.

Diversity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company D&I 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.

Position Summary:

Leading a regional team to build and enhance a comprehensive environment for systematic trading of risk. Components are built using modern Python and C++ along with integration with q/kdb+ for analytics and user interfaces for command and controlPartnering closely with the global Systematic Risk Trading lead to help shape and drive execution of technology strategyLiaising with the Equity LOB to drive a cohesive product roadmap supporting multiple workflows across lines of businessAnalyzing business requirements, forming an architectural design, overseeing cross team development and testing, and managing production issuesCollaborating closely with our Site Reliability Engineering group to achieve industry leading reliability and scalabilityDeveloping roadmaps for continuous platform improvement

Skills:

InfluenceRisk ManagementSolution DesignStakeholder ManagementTechnical Strategy DevelopmentAnalytical ThinkingApplication DevelopmentCollaborationResult OrientationSolution Delivery ProcessAgile PracticesArchitectureAutomationData ManagementDevOps Practices

Required Skills

Extensive experience in both Python and C++ development on LinuxExpert in building quantitative Electronic Trading applications, with specific exposure to automated on-exchange market makingAutomation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testingAbility to architect resilient, instrumented, distributed systems achieving world class reliabilityFamiliarity with Agile software development and associated best practicesEnthusiastic, strong-minded person able to work closely with project teams in a multi-faceted role and help instill a responsible and professional cultureStrong communication skills with technical and non-technical partners

Desired SkillsFINRA Series 57 licensedDeep knowledge of Equities/Futures/Options/FX asset classes and algorithmic trading of these productsFamiliarity with regulatory requirements for trading in AMRS marketsWorking knowledge in architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor Degree or equivalent working experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$134,900.00 - $217,000.00 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.