Senior Engineer

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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

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 defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

 

This role requires an experienced and highly skilled Infrastructure Administrator to provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, support, and continuous improvement of enterprise infrastructure platforms that support Global Resolution Recovery and Planning (RRP), Balance Sheet Management (BSM), CCAR stress testing, and regulatory initiatives including IFRS and GAAP compliance.

 

The successful candidate will be responsible for administering and optimizing mission-critical infrastructure supporting Net Interest Income (NII) and Economic Value of Equity (EVE) forecasting platforms. This includes managing large-scale Linux, database, storage, and distributed computing environments that process high-volume financial data and support critical business functions across Finance, Treasury, and Risk organizations.

 

The ideal candidate will lead infrastructure modernization efforts, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and ensure operational excellence through automation, monitoring, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and security best practices. The role requires close collaboration with development, data engineering, application support, and business teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and highly available enterprise solutions.

 

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements
• Provide technical leadership for enterprise infrastructure platforms, including servers, databases, storage, middleware, and cloud technologies.
• Design, implement, and support scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions for financial forecasting and regulatory reporting platforms.
• Administer and optimize Windows and distributed computing environments, ensuring performance, stability, and compliance.
• Develop automation and scripting solutions to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Monitor platform health, perform capacity planning, and resolve complex infrastructure and performance issues.
• Support disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, and resiliency initiatives.
• Partner with development, support, security, and data engineering teams to deploy and operate enterprise platforms.
• Lead technology assessments, platform migrations, infrastructure modernization, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Guide cross-functional teams through infrastructure design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise forecasting, aggregation, and regulatory platforms, supporting strategic initiatives and daily operations.

 

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure administration, systems engineering, or platform engineering experience within large-scale environments.
• 7+ years of experience supporting mission-critical platforms within a financial services organization.
• Extensive experience administering Windows-based infrastructure, distributed systems, and enterprise database platforms.
• Strong experience supporting SQL-based systems, data platforms, ETL processes, and large-scale data environments.
• Proven expertise in infrastructure performance tuning, capacity management, root cause analysis, and platform optimization.
• Experience managing Vertica, Hadoop, distributed data platforms, or similar enterprise-scale technologies.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture, networking, storage, security, and system reliability principles.
• Experience with automation, scripting, configuration management, and operational tooling.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, observability, and incident management solutions.
• Understanding of capital, liquidity, forecasting, and balance sheet management systems within financial institutions.
• Experience supporting production environments with strict availability, performance, and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Proven leadership skills with experience leading operational initiatives, infrastructure reviews, and technical deep dives.

 

Desired Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of CCAR, FR Y-14A, and related regulatory reporting platforms.
• Experience with hybrid cloud, infrastructure modernization, and enterprise platform transformation initiatives.
• Knowledge of security controls, compliance frameworks, and audit requirements within financial services environments.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation frameworks, and DevOps operational practices.

 

Skills:

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

 

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work 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

$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 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.