Senior Technology Manager - FICC Credit Tech

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

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 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.

Job Profile Summary:

Senior Technology Manager to lead Credit eTrading and horizontal Client Connectivity across FICC, requiring deep hands-on expertise in electronic trading platforms, bilateral client connectivity, and low-latency systems. The role demands extensive experience designing and building client connectivity, price distribution, and RFQ engines, with strong proficiency in Java/Spring, FIX protocol, and FIX APIs for external clients. The ideal candidate balances hands-on engineering and people leadership, spending significant time coding while owning architecture, delivery, and talent development. Strong knowledge of Credit market structure, D2D/D2C connectivity models, CI/CD toolchains, reactive and event-driven architectures, and Unix-based environments is essential, along with experience partnering closely with trading desks, quants, and clients to deliver scalable, high-performance eTrading connectivity solutions across FICC.

• 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 objectives
• Facilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skills
• Manages 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 met
• Manages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organization
• Contributes to the technology strategy for their technical domain
• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
• Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders

• 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.
• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work 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.

• Experience as a Lead software engineer building eTrading solutions - software used in market connectivity, price distribution or RFQ engines.
• Must understand and have experience building out D2D, D2C or bilateral eTrading connectivity.
• Highly proficient in Java/Spring with expertise in developing FIX trading solutions.
• Experience working with trading desks, strategists & quants for L3 support on production trading systems as well as requirements gathering/solution design for new build.
• Experience supervising and growing eTrading engineering talent
• In-depth knowledge of Munis or Mortgages eTrading workflows and market structure
• Proficiency in debugging/profiling JDK based languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin/Clojure)
• Advanced work with JDK CI/CD and build toolchains including Maven, Gradle, SBT, Jenkins
• Experience with modern RPC microservices, specifically GraphQL and gRPC
• Proficiency in developing for Unix/Linux based environments including shell basics as well as process and network diagnostics.
• Exposure to monitoring, metrics and tracing tooling - ELK stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTSDB, OpenTrace, Jaeger
• Exposure to message-oriented architecture - ZeroMQ, JMS, AMPS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Google pub/sub
• Exposure to process/container orchestration technologies - Mesos, Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker
• Hi proficiency in data architecture in both SQL and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase
• Experience with reactive streams implementations and observables - ReactiveX (RXJava, RXJS, etc), Akka Streams, Monix, Spring Reactor

• Client onboarding and connectivity frameworks (session lifecycle management, entitlement models)
• FIX performance engineering (session scalability, recovery, replay, throttling)
• API gateway and traffic management (rate limiting, authentication, SLA enforcement)
• Network-level troubleshooting (TCP/IP tuning, multicast, packet analysis)
• Enterprise integration patterns (front-to-back trade lifecycle flows)