Delivery Lead -Technology - Payments Modernization

Bank of America • Jersey City, NJ

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! Job Description: This job is responsible for planning and coordinating the execution of project/small program deliverables which requires the engagement of multiple teams. Key responsibilities include communicating work objectives, coordinating delivery, facilitating sync points across teams, providing end-to-end visibility into the health of the deliverables, and managing program risk and compliance to standards. Job expectations include ensuring delivery meets the client’s expectations in terms of the functionality, quality, timeline, and cost.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands‑on software engineering experience, including building and supporting mission‑critical systems.
• 7+ years of hands‑on experience with Java and Spring Boot building microservices for mission‑critical, low‑latency systems.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience (Feature Lead / Tech Lead / Senior Engineer) leading delivery for a small to mid‑sized engineering team.
• Experience with event‑driven architectures using Kafka (topic design, consumer groups, streaming patterns, integration with back‑end services).
• Solid experience with Oracle (or similar RDBMS) including schema design for payments, performance tuning, and transactional integrity.
• Knowledge of wire processing workflows including initiation, compliance screening, enrichment, routing, settlement, exception handling, and investigations.
• Experience designing and deploying services using containers (Docker) and Kubernetes, including configuration, scaling, and rollout strategies, preferably on a cloud or private‑cloud platform.
• Ability to ensure solutions meet regulatory and compliance requirements (OFAC, AML, sanctions, risk controls).
• Expertise applying architectural patterns, integration design, event‑driven or microservices patterns, and modern engineering frameworks.
• Strong hands‑on experience developing automated test suites, ensuring coverage across MT/MX message validation, schema compliance, routing logic, performance, and resiliency.
• Experience setting up and maturing CI/CD pipelines with automated quality gates, schema validations, regression packs, and safe deployment controls for mission‑critical systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across distributed systems, including message parsing failures, routing defects, latency issues, or integration errors.
• Excellent mentoring, communication, and collaboration skills to support engineering teams and influence technical direction across architecture, product, operations, and compliance partners.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Federal Reserve Operating Circular 8, CHIPS Operating Rules, and SWIFT Standards related to wire message structures and processing requirements.
• 3+ years working in high‑value payments, preferably in US Wires (Fedwire, CHIPS) and/or SWIFT cross‑border payments.
• Experience supporting or engineering for high‑value, low‑latency payment systems, including performance tuning, message parsing optimization, and resiliency patterns.
• Exposure to fraud detection, sanctions screening engines, and other risk systems integrated into wire processing flows.
• Knowledge of end‑to‑end wire operational workflows including exceptions, repairs, adjustments, investigations, and settlement cycles.
• Experience implementing or integrating monitoring/observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, ELK, AppDynamics, Dynatrace) for wire transaction tracing and operational insights.
• Experience in cloud modernization or microservices transformation for wire or other regulated financial systems.
• Experience with UI frameworks (e.g., Angular) and/or Node.js for building operational tools, dashboards, or auxiliary services around wire platforms.
• Ability to collaborate with Compliance, Risk, Operations, and business SMEs to ensure solutions meet regulatory, operational, and audit requirements.

Responsibilities

• Leads and coordinates routines to support delivery (for example, kick-offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, and tollgates, etc.)
• Manages coordination of delivery and dependencies across multiple teams
• Facilitates communication and collaboration across organizations to support the deliverable completion and timeline
• Provides status updates for the deliverables to stakeholders and leadership pertaining to delivery, risks, issues, and schedule
• Works with sponsors and stakeholders to ensure that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements
• Supports resource planning for delivery and execution
• Ensures adherence with Enterprise Change Management standards
• Responsible for maintaining applications in compliance with both external regulation and Bank internal mandates.
• Manage assigned application servers to keep up to date with software updates and vulnerability remediation, including rehosting projects to update infrastructure and monitoring of server capacity and performance
• Manage, lead and direct the work efforts of teammates and other resources to deliver required projects and deliverables.
• Responsible for maintaining and executing technical recovery plans
• Work with Information Security partners to plan solutions and resolve complex vulnerabilities
• Manages and coordinates activities with vendors, contractors or other IT partners involved in the application’s functional upgrades, production issue resolution and regulatory updates, ensuring SLAs are met.
• Establishes routines to monitor and resolve required deliverables for application governance
• Maintains up to date information regarding the application in all the required systems of record regarding permissions, interphases, connectivity, servers, used technology, etc.
• Providing L3 support for production issues
• Acts as an SME on the applications under his/her management
• Acts in coordination and provides support to other application managers on common issues
• Identification and proactive risk management.
• Motivates and influences a team of employees toward a common goal and/or deliverable

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees