Feature Lead - Technology

Bank of America • Jersey City, NJ

21h • Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, the company is guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection, driving Responsible Growth and delivering for clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders. They are committed to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing talent, supporting wellness, recognizing performance, and making an impact in communities. Bank of America maintains an in-office culture with specific attendance requirements, allowing for flexibility based on role-specific considerations. The Feature Lead will join a Data Engineering group focused on building and maintaining robust Database-centric data pipelines, database solutions, and analytics platforms across heterogeneous systems. This team develops and maintains Oracle, PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, Vertica, and Unix Shell/Python automation, with workload scheduling orchestrated through Autosys. They ensure end-to-end data integrity, reliability, and performance across traditional database environments (Oracle, Vertica, MS SQL), leveraging data modeling, data profiling, dimensional modeling, and database testing to deliver well-documented, stable, and compliant data solutions. They also support UAT, create training materials, and collaborate with adjacent technology teams to manage dependencies and ensure software stability and data quality. This individual contributor role is responsible for providing leadership, technical direction, and oversight to a team delivering technology solutions, overseeing design, implementation, and maintenance of complex computer programs, aligning technical solutions to business objectives, and ensuring coding practices and quality comply with software development standards.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Science, IT, Computer Science or job related field
• 3+ years of job related experience
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, focusing heavily on Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
• Strong experience designing and implementing Oracle-driven data integration pipelines using SQL, PL/SQL, and Unix shell scripting
• Experience automating Oracle processes using job schedulers (Autosys preferred)
• Professional experience in SQL/PLSQL development, including packages, functions, procedures, triggers, and bulk processing
• Ability to refine requirements, participate in story sizing, and help drive Agile delivery
• Ability to perform POCs/spikes to test new Oracle features or solution patterns
• Develop, test, and deliver Oracle-based solutions that meet acceptance criteria and adhere to compliance standards
• Strong understanding of how to integrate multiple architectural components (data, application, business)
• Good understanding of dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas, facts, dimensions, and hierarchies
• Skilled in leading and developing complex Oracle data flows, connecting to heterogeneous databases such as Oracle and MS SQL Server
• Hands-on experience developing complex Oracle procedures, functions, and PL/SQL packages used in APIs, reporting, and data warehousing
• Ability to conduct both proactive and reactive Oracle performance tuning using explain plans, indexing strategies, statistics, hints, and SQL optimization best practices
• Strong hands-on experience developing and supporting Unix shell scripts (critical skill)
• Work split: Oracle PL/SQL / Shell / Python – 70%
• ETL transformations (Informatica) – 10%
• Unix shell scripting, Python – 20%
• 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
• Exceptional analytical skills and problem solving skills; excellent organizational, communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Financial industry/Banking Experience
• Experience with JIRA tool and infrastructure

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)
• Analyze existing business processes and design Oracle-centric optimizations, automation, and workflow improvements
• Gather and document functional, non-functional, and technical requirements for incoming requests
• Analyze functional and data requirements—understand how applications store, transform, and expose data within Vertica/Oracle
• Assist users and development teams with application testing, data validation, and troubleshooting Oracle/Vertica database processes
• Identify, document, and troubleshoot application and database-related issues (performance, data integrity, failures)
• Document end to end processes, database procedures, workflow logic, and operational runbooks
• Create and maintain training material for end-users and support teams
• Demonstrate exceptional analytical/problem solving skills with strong communication and collaboration
• Collaborate with other development teams to manage interdependencies, design test cases, debug issues, and maintain high data quality
• Ensure software stability through documentation, peer code reviews, regression testing, unit testing, and UAT
• Perform logical and physical data modeling, including schema design in Oracle
• Perform in-depth data analysis, profiling, and identification of data quality issues
• Support story refinement, requirement elaboration, and effort estimation in Agile processes
• Comfortable using Github Copilot and other AI tools to speed up delivery of the development and lead and encourage be a role model to drive the Developers growth
• Present team’s work to Business partners and Lead Sr and Jr team members onshore and offshore through technical complexities in Oracle development and CI CD pipeline design and industry standard best practices
• Develop strong understanding of stakeholder needs and translate them into scalable Database based technical solutions

Benefits

• Industry-leading benefits
• Access to paid time off
• Resources and support to employees to make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of the business and communities served
• Commitment to help employees through the transition period when they’re displaced as a result of a workforce reduction, realignment or similar measure
• Discretionary incentive eligible, participating in an annual discretionary plan based on individual, line of business/group, and overall company performance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees