Feature Lead

2 weeks ago

Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom Bank of America Full time
Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Java Developer / Technical Lead

Corporate Title: Up to Vice President

Location: Chester

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us

Location Overview:

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

The Team:

You will join a newly formed small Scrum team in Chester consisting of 7 team members) working on the award-winning Global Liquidity Platform (GLP) application. The team is one of several teams working on the application, the others being in Bromley (London) and in India.

The team is friendly and very collaborative, and this is achieved using a variety of collaboration tools such as WebEx and Skype.

As the team operate in an agile manner there is also regular interaction with other technical teams, product management and end users.

Training and development are a core part of the team ethos and is available through a variety of different means - we have a great online learning portal as well as providing more formal external training for niche requirements.

Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop and be accountable for feature delivery.
  • Apply enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality.
  • Ensure solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt.
  • Responsible for compliance and security items and audit support at the team level.
  • Act as a liaison for production activities/issues.
  • Work with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Guide the team on work breakdown and execution.
  • Play a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team.
  • Guide team members with skills and practices (planning & estimation, peer reviews and other engineering practices).
  • Identify skill and role gaps, and work with Technology.
  • Work with Technology Manager in creating resource contingency plans where required.
  • Be a good technologist who is inquisitive and has a desire to learn.

What we are looking for:
  • Excellent Java development experience.
  • Extensive knowledge of:
  • Core Java, JEE.
  • Spring Framework - particularly SpringMVC, SpringBoot, SpringBatch.
  • REST.
  • Unix scripting (BASH).
  • Junit.
  • Mocking (JMock/Mokito).
  • Hibernate.
  • Experience of Oracle DB - PLSQL scripting.
  • Excellent knowledge of CI/CD tools - ex. Jenkins, XLR, Ansible.
  • Extensive experience with Agile / SCRUM Programming project methodologies.
  • Experience using software configuration management systems (Git/BitBucket).
  • Experience working with colleagues in other (global) locations.
  • Ability to seek out information with little direction.

Skills that will help:
  • JMS
  • Websphere MQ.
  • Acceptance Test Driven Development (JBehave, Cucumber).
  • AngularJS.
  • Splunk.
  • Experience with secure coding practises.
  • Mulesoft.
  • Domain Driven Design.
  • Experience in the Banking domain, particularly Treasury and Payments.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

UK
  • Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
  • Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
  • 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
  • The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
  • Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
  • Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
  • Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK's most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
  • Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.

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