Senior Engineer - GBS IND

Senior Engineer - GBS IND

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. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.
We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview

Global Markets Technology & Operations provides end-to-end technology solutions for Global Markets businesses including Equities, Prime Brokerage, Interest Rates, Currencies, Commodities, Derivatives and Structured Products. Across all these products, solutions include architecture, design, development, change management, implementation and support using various enterprise technologies. In addition, GMT&O provides Sales, Electronic Trading, Trade Work Flow, Pricing, and Market Risk, Middle office, Collateral Management, Credit Risk, Post-trade confirmation, Settlement and Client service processes for Trading, Capital Markets, and Wealth Management businesses.

Job Description: -

The role will require close interaction with traders, sales, quants and technology stakeholders to understand business requirements and develop or enhance solutions that support Rates trading, electronic execution and systematic FICC trading strategies. The candidate will be responsible for analysis, design, implementation and testing of components across trade capture, pricing, RFQ/order workflows, FIX-based connectivity and risk valuation systems.

The teams use agile development with varying levels of maturity amongst them. India team is distributed across Chennai, Mumbai, Gift and the global team across London, New York and Houston. The role would require a close engagement with stakeholders in FICC Macro technology function. He/She should be good in juggling between multiple priorities and delegate work to the team as applicable. He/She should be able to extract work from the team and at the same time keep the team motivated. Should be good in Python, Quartz knowledge is much preferable.

Responsibilities

Ideal candidate should have experience in developing server-side applications handling real time data. Should be able to design and high performance, scalable solutions and respond to a fast-paced environment. Experience in GUI development and Front Office environments is advantageous.

In addition to the above the person should

• Participate within milestone projects.

• Work closely with other FICC Macro technology teams.

• Manage and escalate risks and issues

• Ability to analyze, design, develop and troubleshoot new and existing applications

• Learning new technologies and framework

• Interact with PMs and users to gather requirements

• Optimize and tune existing modules for better performance

• Collaborate with DEV/BAU/MAPS teams for deliverables

• Onboard, enhance and support ECN connectivity for outbound price distribution, RFQ and Order protocols across major Fixed Income ECNs.

• Design, develop and troubleshoot FIX protocol integrations supporting electronic trading workflows within FICC markets.

• Partner with trading, sales, quant and technology teams to support systematic and portfolio trading capabilities across broader FICC workflows.

• Contribute to automation testing and back testing frameworks to validate trading functionality, regression coverage and systematic FICC strategy support

Requirements

Education- Bachelors/Master’s degree in computer science or engineering or similar

Certifications if any- NA

Experience Range- 12 -15 Yrs

Foundational skills:

• Hands on experience in server side programming using Python.
• Strong exposure to SQL server database or any other object based or RDBMS systems.
• Good understanding of OOPS concepts     
• Strong interpersonal skills and experienced in communicating complex solutions with both technical and Business users.
• Must be able to handle multiple tasks and adapt to a constantly changing environment
• Exposure to threading and messaging services will be an additional value-add
• Experience in people management
• Understanding of Qz and FICC Macro Trading Business is preferable.

Desired skills

• Development experience in a large scale global software deployment
• Experience of Fixed Income products trading would be very advantageous

Work Timings- 11:30 AM – 8:30 PM

Job Location- Chennai

Experience Level

Senior Level