Bank of America · 12 hours ago
Development and Platform Lead
Pennington, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
12+ years expBank of America is committed to helping make financial lives better through the power of every connection. The Development and Platform Lead is responsible for driving data engineering efforts and overseeing software development, technology administration, and platform engineering while ensuring alignment with business goals.
Asset ManagementBankingFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Assembles large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring that the design and engineering approach is consistent across multiple systems
Maintains, improves, cleans, and manipulates large data for operational and analytics data systems, builds complex processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, data quality controls, dependency, and workload management, and communicates required information for deployment, maintenance, and support of business functionality
Utilizes multiple architectural components in the design and development of client requirements and collaborates with development teams to understand data requirements and ensure the data architecture is feasible to implement
Defines and builds data pipelines to enable data-informed decision making, ensuring adherence to release processes and risk management routines
Contributes to existing test suites including integration, regression, and performance, analyzes test reports, identifies any test issues and errors, and leads triage of underlying causes
Leads the identification of gaps in data management standards adherence and works with appropriate partners to develop plans to close gaps, leading concept testing and conducting research to prototype toolsets and improve existing processes
Mentors Data Engineers in the delivery and release of continuous integration and continuous delivery events and defines key performance indicators and internal controls
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
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience in software development, platform engineering, or enterprise technology roles
7+ years in a leadership or management role with responsibility for teams and strategic initiatives
Strong understanding of database technologies, networking, security, and system administration
Hands on end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC), including design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance
Hands on expertise in delivery of high-quality applications using modern engineering practices (agile, CI/CD, test automation)
Guide teams in adopting scalable architectures, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native patterns
Administer and support IBM Spectrum Scale System(ESS) 6000 clusters to ensure high availability, resilience and scalability
Install, configure and maintain NSD servers, GPFS clusters
Monitor, analyze and optimize storage performance, throughput, and capacity planning
Troubleshoot and resolve system issues, ensuring minimal downtime. Perform root-cause analysis of service disruptions and implement preventive measures
Collaborate with stakeholders in maintaining the infrastructure (applying patches, swing to a backup data center etc.)
Must have experience in Incident management, Service Request, Change management and Problem Management
Automate and monitor utilizations and take necessary actions to remediate bottlenecks
Strong knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Enterprise Infrastructure (patching, upgrade, backup, monitoring etc.)
Perform root-cause analysis of system failures, identify bottlenecks, and establish preventive measures
Must have experience handling performance issues, system optimization and be able to mentor junior team members with best practices
Must have working experience in an enterprise wise shared services environment
Knowledge of data protection, backup, and disaster recovery strategies
Familiarity with monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace etc.)
Preferred
Knowledge of SRE practices, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and event-driven architectures
Certifications in cloud, security and expertise in cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, or GCP), distributed systems, API platforms, and DevOps
Oversee and maintain infrastructure and system installations including configuration, testing and upgrades
Implement and maintain backup, redundancy and security of the storage systems
Knowledge of Storage Systems, NSD, GPFS
Troubleshoot issues with system, collect logs, raise vendor case, work with vendor
Company
Bank of America
Bank of America is a financial institution that offers credit cards, home loans, and auto loan services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.59BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-02-20Post Ipo Debt· $386.79M
2024-11-26Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2020-07-28Post Ipo Equity· $400M
Leadership Team
Charissa Messer
Senior Vice President, Creative Agency Executive (Enterprise Creative Solutions)
Rami Salem
SVP Strategic Competitive Intelligence
Recent News
2026-01-13
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