Software Engineer - Sr Java Application Developer

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 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.

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)

• Minimum 8 years of strong technical expertise and hands-on experience with Java and Spring skills, along with effective communication and collaboration abilities.
• Design, develop, and maintain web services using Java frameworks such as Apache CXF and Spring Boot, with Oracle and Cassandra as backend databases.
• Extensive expertise in frameworks and technologies, including Spring, Spring Integration, Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka, MQ, NoSQL databases, RESTful services, and WS-Security.
• Develop and review artifacts such as code, documentation, and unit test scripts, ensuring quality through peer reviews and defect validation.
• Manage and monitor offshore teams and tasks effectively.
• Analyze requirements, create high-level estimates, and participate in high-level design discussions to produce detailed design specifications.
• Create unit test plans for complex programs to validate and maintain applications as per requirements.
• Implement logging, tracing, and perform code refactoring to improve maintainability and performance.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for post-implementation issues and provide solutions for defect resolution.
• Practical experience with tools like Eclipse, IntelliJ, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Autosys.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.
• Skilled in writing complex SQL queries for databases like Oracle.

• Graph DB experience as nice to have.

• 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