Job Description: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.
The Developer Experience (DevEx) group at Bank of America empowers developers by providing solutions that streamline delivery, foster collaboration, leverage AI, and drive continuous innovation. We execute under 5 core pillars: AI Frameworks, Work and Change Management, Engineering Enablement, Process and Governance, Engineering Culture.
Our Mission: Deliver an experience for developers empowered by intelligent, self-service tools that streamline delivery, foster collaboration, and drive continuous innovation.
Our Vision: We envision an enterprise where technology investments are aligned, transparent, and optimized-enabling teams to build meaningful solutions with agility, confidence, and purpose.
As part of our mission and vision, we are looking to expand and transform towards modern platforms and practices and leverage AI and automation, in a safe, secure and compliant way.
The role of Feature Lead within DevEx is responsible for providing leadership, technical direction, and oversight to a team as they deliver technology solutions. Key responsibilities of the role include developing solutions and processes for delivering features based on their knowledge of design/architectural patterns and Agile/DevOps practices. This role ensures the systems design and requirements are aligned to achieve the desired business outcomes, and that team practices and coding/quality principles are aligned to achieve the desired technology outcomes. They have built significant experience through multiple software implementations and have developed both depth and breadth in 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)
- Building the Solution Right
- 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 Planning and Execution
- 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.
- Team Mentorship
- 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 Manager to address them.
- Work with Technology Manager in creating resource contingency plans where required.
- Facilitate solution-driven discussions and design complex systems using domain expertise, experimentation, and POCs. Partner with Product to prioritize architecture runway work that enables business features and new opportunities. Guide development teams with clear architecture, system design support, and solution options to resolve impediments.
- Conduct design/code reviews to ensure non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, usability) are met. Support technology selection and preferred product standards. Educate teams on best practices, standards, and modern engineering approaches to deliver innovative, scalable solutions.
- Drive architecture across Business, Application, Data, and Technology domains aligned to the product roadmap. Establish best practices and standardized templates. Define solution intent and architectural vision for complex initiatives, iterating with an evolving backlog. Lead rapid, high-level architecture shaping; ensure designs are modular, flexible, and adaptable to changing requirements.
Required Qualifications:- Experience leading agile teams
- Track record of delivering highly impactful, scalable and reliable systems.
- Experience running and managing systems with 1000s of users.
- Demonstrable experience building and deploying systems to cloud and containers.
- Relevant industry certifications.
- Solution Design
- Has demonstrated the ability to design and develop significant components within an application. has performed code reviews.
- Solution Delivery Process
- Understands the roles and responsibilities of other teams who participate in the lifecycle and engages as required.
- Test Engineering
- Has demonstrated the ability to design and develop manual and automated test plans within an application. Has performed test plan reviews.
- Governance Stakeholder Management
- Sets agenda and defines the artifacts needed for governance forums. Collects feedback from customers and stakeholders to measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management.
- DevOps and Release Automation
- Subject matter expert on bank standards and best practices, and continuous integration and continuous deployment. Ability to configure tools and processes to support DevOps strategies.
- Business Products Strategy
- Working knowledge of products, services, business flows and understanding of financial context in which technology and operating principles are used within their business area.
- Application Data Architecture
- Possesses an understanding of architecture and bank standards. Participates in or supports delivery of architecture designs and implementations.
- Risk Management
- Identifies risk/dependencies and quantifies the impact it has on the business/technology and what controls are to be used to resolve.
- Planning, Execution Process
- Facilitates team planning ceremonies against backlog/prioritized work.
- Manages risk/dependencies/impediments for one team. Ability to answer teams Agile/waterfall framework questions.
- Financials Resource Management
- Ability to provide input for financial planning. Understands the variances.
- Data Management
- Has knowledge of data management practices and technologies but has not been hands-on with the development of a data system.
- Experience Design
- Supports the delivery of branded, accessible design solutions. Understands and can comply with design, brand and accessibility standards.
- Analytical Thinking
- Demonstrates ability to identify root causes to solve complex problems in highly unstable situations.
- Promotes Collaboration
- Collaborates with own team and across teams. Asks questions to obtain views from others.
- Influences Decisions
- Uses a combination of factual and emotional points to exert influence. Receives agreement to ideas by identifying and working collaboratively with specific stakeholders and senior managers.
- Achieves Sustainable Results
- Sets KPI's for teams to follow. Makes decisions about technology that will increase or deliver business value.
Desired Qualifications:- Tools and technologies in CICD, DevEx, DevOps and AI space.
- Building high performance, scalable and reliable systems.
- Building systems in Java, Python or .NET. Modern stack like Kafka, Spring, MongoDB.
- Cloud technologies on 1 or more major Hyper scalers like AWS, Azure, GCP. Container technologies: Docker, Kubernetes.
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
Pay Transparency detailsUS - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)
Pay and benefits information
Pay range
$106,500.00 - $173,700.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.
Discretionary incentive eligible
This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.
Benefits
This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.
