Software Engineer III- Quartz

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 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, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

Quartz Core Business Platform Developer

Quartz has revolutionized the way Global Markets does business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Quartz is the strategic platform for pricing trades, managing positions, and computing risk exposure. Thousands of developers are using the highly agile platform to deliver applications to thousands of end users. As a part of the Quartz Core Business Platform team, you will contribute to the technology that will define the future of our business.

The Quartz Core Business Platform owns the QFS stack and partners with LOB teams on how to use the QFS stack to solve their business requirements.
 

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
• Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Automates manual release activities
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)

Skills:

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

You will work with a cutting-edge technology stack that includes:

• A modern Python stack for agile development
• Globally distributed object databases
• Scalable compute fabric
• Shared repository of reusable business code
• Automated SDLC for testing and deployment
• Analytic libraries
• Standardized enterprise reference data

You will deliver:

• Improvements and enhancements to the QFS
• Solutions to enterprise initiatives that cut across trading desks.
• Contribute and own business APIs that provide standardized solutions across trading desks
• Cross asset solutions for deal capture, pricing, position keeping, and risk requirements

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of Quartz development experience.
• Exposure to the QFS is a plus.
• Substantial programming experience
• Exceptional knowledge of computer science data structures
• Application Coding/ Application Design/ Application Development PYTHON/ C++/ SQL

Desired Skills:

• An interest in capital markets
• The desire to work in a test driven software development environment that relies on iterative feedback

• An interest in capital markets
• The desire to work in a test driven software development environment that relies on iterative feedback

Education Requirements:

BS Degree in Computer Science or Related Field

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540), US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park (NY1540)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$100,700.00 - $180,000.00 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.