Bank of America Corporation

Technology Services Lead - Global Markets Equities Production Services

Bank of America Corporation$92K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in Application support/development for trading platforms
  • Expertise with Linux, SQL, and distributed application platforms
  • Proficient in troubleshooting and triaging production issues under tight deadlines
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk and Dynatrace
  • Strong knowledge of the Equities asset class and trade processing flows
  • Programming skills in Python and Java
  • Excellent communication skills in verbal and written formats

Responsibilities

  • Provide operational support for Equities Derivatives & Swaps trading systems
  • Act as primary point of contact for user issues and escalate high-priority incidents
  • Collaborate with Traders and technology teams to deliver business-aligned enhancements
  • Implement process improvements and maintain quality controls
  • Generate reports on system stability and incident trends
  • Utilize SRE principles to enhance stability and resiliency

Benefits

  • Access to industry-leading benefits
  • Paid time off for work-life balance
  • Support and resources to foster employee impact on business and community
  • Participation in an annual discretionary bonus plan based on performance
  • Work in a global team environment with opportunities for growth and collaboration
Full Job Description
Position Summary

Seeking an experienced production services specialist to join our Equities Derivatives & Swaps production services team providing front line technical support to end user requests and issues. Responsibilities include managing application platform monitoring and support, root cause analysis and preventative actions to ensure stability & resiliency across all services. Will lead incident & problem management activities, onboarding applications and effectively communicate to stakeholders for front office trading applications as part of a global production services team.

The successful candidate will be one who also embraces innovation and can learn the business and technical components of an application and work with peers to ensure stable release deployments and platform stability. This role will be part of a team in New York, with a wider global team providing production services across core trading & technology locations.

Candidate should have good knowledge of the Global Markets technology ecosystem, strong technical skills (e.g. SPLUNK and Dynatrace) as well as Global Markets Equities domain understanding. Able to conduct independent research as well as collaborate with bank SMEs.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide technical and operational support for Equities Derivatives & Swaps production traders, ensuring stability, performance, and compliance with enterprise standards
  • Act as a primary point of contact for user Queries, Triaging, troubleshooting issues, and escalating or resolving high-priority incidents
  • Work closely with Traders, Middle Office users, Sales and technology teams to prioritize and deliver enhancements aligned with business objectives
  • Implement process improvements, maintain quality controls, and ensure adherence to internal policies and regulatory requirements
  • Produce regular reports on system stability, incident trends, and team performance to support transparency and continuous improvement
  • Utilize SRE principles and solutions to drive stability & resiliency improvements


Primary Skill
  • Linux, SQL, Python, Java, messaging platforms
  • Experience with monitoring tools; e.g. Dynatrace, Splunk, ITRS Geneos
  • ITIL (Remedy/ServiceNow), Jira


Secondary Skill
  • Autosys, Ansible, Grafana, Grid computing, SRE Practices


Tertiary Skill
  • Tibco, MQ, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Cloud, IBM OpenShift


Required Qualifications
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in Application support/development, ensuring stability for critical Trading platforms in a global, team-oriented environment.
  • Experience with distributed application platforms: Windows, UNIX, LINUX, SQL.
  • Ability to lead triage and solve production outage situations under tight deadlines, including root cause and problem resolution follow-ups.
  • Experienced on monitoring tools such as ITRS Geneos, Splunk, Dynatrace
  • Knowledge of Equities asset class and related trade processing flows.
  • Programming skills: Python, Unix/scripting, Java
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Knowledge of ITIL & SDLC principles and execution
  • Experience in coordinating with offshore/onshore support, business, vendor, and infrastructure partners.


Desired Qualifications
  • Hands on experience providing direct support to front office trading desks
  • Results oriented, must be able to effectively collaborate with Senior Management and Business Partners to find solutions


Job Description:
This job is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities and functions for the assigned team. Key responsibilities include delegating work to team members, supervising work processes, providing informal leadership of sub teams or technology silos, managing on call and support schedules, and providing leadership, mentorship, and direction to team members. Job expectations include solving complex technical and analytical issues and effectively communicating results to senior management and Line of Business partners.

Responsibilities:
  • Manages and prioritizes multiple tasks and assignments for the team including tracking tasks and tickets in system(s) of record, ensuring enterprise service level agreements are met, and participating in defect, incident, problem, and change review meetings and release activities
  • Provides point of escalation for team members, peers, and partner teams, and shares the leadership Point of Contact for triage of high priority incidents or consulting engagements
  • Performs all responsibilities of team members from applicable teams
  • Works with appropriate teams to ensure alerts, monitoring, dashboards, and processes are established appropriately for new projects and initiatives
  • Participates and helps with resource interviews and onboarding processes
  • Performs access reviews, conducts compliance activities, and serves as a delegate for administrative processes
  • Creates the on call rotation schedule and ensures support for off hours, weekends, and release windows


Skills:
  • Collaboration
  • Influence
  • Production Support
  • Risk Management
  • Solution Design
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Architecture
  • Innovative Thinking
  • Result Orientation
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Adaptability
  • Automation
  • DevOps Practices
  • Project Management
  • Solution Delivery Process


Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

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

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$92,100.00 - $160,100.00 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.

Bank of America Corporation Careers

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Learn more about Bank of America Corporation
Size
208,000 employees
Market Cap
$260.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$17.8 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
-1.4%
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