Python Software Engineer III Jersey City, New Jersey **Job Description:** 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! **Job Description:** This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns. **Responsibilities:** + Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements + Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained + Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack + Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle + Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas + Automates manual release activities + Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance) **Position Summary:** **Global Risk Analytics Technology** is in search of a talented **Python Software Engineer III.** 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. **Additional Responsibilities:** + Key contributor to development initiatives that require strong analytical, coding and debugging skills using Python as a primary language. + End to end SDLC practices including thorough testing at various levels. + Develop software following the best practices with the ability to provide technical leadership for the junior team members and do the code reviews. + Ability to effectively communicate with the technical partners and the team. + Develop, enhance, support a complex platform with special attention to high availability, low latency, data protection and security. + 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. + 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) **Required Qualifications** + **8+ years of relevant application and/or framework development experience using Python, with strong fundamentals and prior-programming experience.** + Hands on experience in working with **PySpark, hdfs, pandas** . + Bachelors' Degree in Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or other technical related field. + Experience in relational, NoSQL databases. + Ability to work with minimal guidance towards end-to-end application delivery. + Ability to work with global teams and can work well under pressure. + Self-motivated and team player with excellent communication skills and a strong work ethic. **Desired Skills** + Experience with developing distributed and scalable complex services, including REST interfaces. + Analytical skills to perform technical and functional analysis + Financial business knowledge preferred. **Skills:** + Application Development + Automation + Influence + Solution Design + Technical Strategy Development + Architecture + Business Acumen + DevOps Practices + Result Orientation + Solution Delivery Process **Shift:** 1st shift (United States of America) **Hours Per Week:** 40 **Pay Transparency details** US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101) Pay and benefits information Pay range $100,700.00 - $180,000.00 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. 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