Bank of America Corporation

Senior Technology Manager - Commodity Index Platform Lead

Bank of America Corporation$135K — $220K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in leadership roles for front-office teams in trading environments.
  • Strong communication skills to engage senior stakeholders and negotiate under pressure.
  • In-depth knowledge of commodity index construction and commodity derivatives including futures and options.
  • Experience in building real-time risk and pricing analytics platforms for trading desks.
  • Extensive development experience in Python, particularly within Quartz or similar platforms, and ReactJS for user interfaces.
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and security protocols in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage a high-performing engineering team of 10-15 engineers focused on technology delivery.
  • Facilitate performance and career development through coaching and feedback initiatives.
  • Ensure application performance and solution delivery comply with standards and policies.
  • Cultivate relationships with business and tech partners while leading Communities of Practice.
  • Contribute to the overall technology strategy within the commodities domain.
  • Create an inclusive work culture and address organizational impediments.
  • Align project execution with product strategy in collaboration with product management and stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Industry-leading benefits package available.
  • Access to paid time off for work-life balance.
  • Support and resources to help employees make impactful contributions.
  • Opportunity to participate in an annual discretionary incentive plan.
Full Job Description
Job Description:

This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.

Job Profile Summary:

BofA Commodity Technology is seeking a Senior Technology Manager to manage a 10-15-person engineering team supporting the global Commodities Index desk. This leader will partner directly with traders, sales, and quantitative research to design, build, and evolve the commodity index platform -primarily within our proprietary Quartz platform. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in commodity index and derivatives with a track record of delivering complex, distributed systems..

Responsibilities:

  • Builds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectives
  • Facilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skills
  • Manages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are met
  • Manages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organization
  • Contributes to the technology strategy for their technical domain
  • Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
  • Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders
  • Lead & Grow a High-Performing Team (10-15 engineers): coach, set goals, and cultivate a collaborative, front-office-centric culture.
  • Engage the Desk Daily: partner with trading, sales, and quants to translate strategies and models into robust, production-grade systems prioritizing high-impact desk outcomes.
  • Architect & Build on Quartz: drive end-to-end engineering of Commodity Index platform in partnership w/ peers and quantitative partners; modernize components and eliminate technical debt.
  • Deliver Real-Time Risk: implement and support intraday risk for commodity index and derivatives.
  • Support Pre-Trade & Client Connectivity: help define and support future strategic pre-trade and client connectivity implementations
  • Production Excellence: help ensure production stability - monitoring, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, release management, and change control.


Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
  • 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.


Required Qualifications:
  • Leadership: 7-10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading front-office-facing teams delivering to trading/sales; proven people leadership across hiring, coaching, and performance management.
  • Communication: the presence and clarity to engage senior business stakeholders, translate requirements, and negotiate priorities under time pressure.
  • Domain Expertise: Commodities: deep knowledge of commodity index construction/maintenance and commodity derivatives (futures, options on futures, swaps), curve/term-structure dynamics, spreads/calendars, seasonality, and risk sensitivities/Greeks.
  • Risk Systems: hands-on experience building real-time risk/pricing and analytics platforms used on trading desks; strong grasp of PnL, VaR, stress, scenarios, intraday limits, and pre-trade checks.
  • Quartz / Python / ReactJS: extensive development experience with Python for distributed services/analytics (ideally in Quartz or a similar platforms), and ReactJS for rich, trader-focused UIs.
  • Agile Development: CI/CD, automated testing, code review, secure coding, and change management in a regulated environment; familiarity with build pipelines and artifact management.


Desired Qualifications:
  • C#/.NET for legacy components and migration strategy.
  • Experience with commodities venues and data (e.g., ICE, CME, LME, Bloomberg/Refinitiv) and pricing libraries.
  • Prior hands-on work with quant libraries and collaboration with quants.
  • Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent professional experience.


Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

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


Hours Per Week:
40

Travel Required:
Yes, 5% of the time

Pay Transparency details

US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park (NY1540)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$135,900.00 - $220,000.00 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.

About Bank of America Corporation

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America. It provides services in mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. It was formed through the combination of the corporate and investment banking activities of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch following the acquisition of the latter by the former in January 2009. Bank of America completed the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co on 1 January 2009. Bank of America began rebranding all of its corporate and investment banking activities under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch name in September 2009. In April 2010, Bank of America Merrill Lynch appointed Christian Meissner as head of investment banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In April 2011, Bank of America Merrill Lynch integrated its corporate and investment banking operations into a single division. In October 2013, Bank of America Merrill Lynch was recognised as the Most Innovative Investment Bank of the Year in The Banker's Investment Banking Awards.

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208,000 employees
Market Cap
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Net Income
$17.8 billion
Founded
1998
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