Software Engineer II

Job Description:

About us:

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!

This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

Overview:

The Production Services Specialist is responsible for ensuring availability and reliability of assigned production applications within a line of business (LOBs) of Compliance. To perform this function, the resource will have to perform daily tasks assigned by the Production Support Lead.

These tasks are aligned to the key services outlined within the Global Support Services Service Catalog:

• Monitoring
• Incident Management
• Request Management
• Disaster Recovery / Application Recovery Certification Exercise
• Metrics Reporting
• Application Capacity Management

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years' experience with Unix and Shell Scripting
• 5+ years' experience with Database (Oracle & Terdata)
• Experience working with Hadoop
• Experience in ETL tool – Informatica
• Experience in monitoring tools like ITRS Geneous, Splunk
• Experience in Job scheduling tool - Autosys
• Aware of ITIL concepts like Incident and Problem Management
• Bachelor's Degree in related field

Desired Qualifications:

• ITIL Process Knowledge
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Willing to be flexible sometimes with providing stand-by out of hours support on rotational basis for production system (as needed)
• Good understanding of financial/banking industry
• Creative and strong problem solving skills
• Ability to operate in high-pressure situations
• Results oriented, and must be able to effectively interact with Senior Management and Business Partners
• Ability to troubleshoot issues and perform RCA at a short interval
• Ability to think out of box and provide innovative solutions
• Work independently and take up ownership of tasks

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design

Shift:

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