Feature Lead - Technology

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Position Summary: This is a Lead position in Bank of America’s Erica, Chat, and Voice Technology organization. The Team builds next generation AI and Search platforms to enable virtual financial assistant / AI and search capabilities across multiple channels

This job is responsible for providing leadership, technical direction and oversight to a team delivering technology solutions. Key responsibilities of the job are to provide oversight of the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex computer programs, align technical solutions to business objectives, and ensure that coding practices/quality comply with software development standards. Job expectations include conducting multiple software implementations and applying both depth and breadth in knowledge of several technical competencies.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops and is accountable for feature delivery
• Applies enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality
• Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt
• Guides the team on work breakdown and execution
• Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria
• Plays a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team
• Guides team members with skills and practices (planning and estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices)

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of hands on software development experience using Java / J2EE technologies
• Good interpersonal communication skills for technical and business conversations
• Good analytical skills to break down requirements and solve complex problems
• Proven task management and leadership skills
• Experience in server side frameworks like Spring MVC
• Experience building restful web services

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in performance tuning with good understanding of JVM internals
• Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra
• Experience in distributed caching frameworks like hazelcast, ignite, redis
• Experience in modern JVM languages like groovy, scala
• Experience with Full-stack development, especially including Angular
• Experience with Generative AI
• Experience with Container technologies, such as Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience working with NLP and Machine learning
• Prior open source contributions
• Background in mathematics or statistics
• Proven task management and leadership skills
• Experience working in agile teams

Skills:

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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40