Feature Lead - Technology

Bank of America•Charlotte, NC

7h•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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! 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. As a Payments Technology Feature Lead, you will be accountable for providing technical leadership, direction, and oversight to a development team delivering strategic capabilities on the Global Payments platform. This role ensures that technology solutions are designed, built, and delivered to meet both business outcomes and engineering standards, while enabling consistent, high-quality feature delivery across the team. You will partner closely with Product Owners, Architects, Software Engineers and Quality Engineers to translate product intent into well-designed, scalable, and secure technical solutions, while guiding the team on delivery practices, engineering excellence, and continuous improvements. May provide technical direction and system architecture for individual initiatives. Attends Business discussions and workshops and gather requirements. Analyzes requirements and transform to technical Flow, aligned with existing project framework and design. Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource. Will not have direct reports but may lead projects and direct activities of a team related to special initiatives or operations. May have responsibility for a project and project budget. May collaborate with external programmers to coordinate delivery of software application. Routine accountability is for technical knowledge and capabilities. Works under minimal supervision, with general guidance from more seasoned consultants.

Requirements

8-10 Years relevant IT experience, preferably within a Financial domain
Good working experience and knowledge in JAVA/J2EE, Kafka, REST API, Spring framework, mulesoft, cucumbers framework, GIT etc.
Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale
Familiarity with Eclipse IDE, WebLogic Application server or JBoss
Strong experience in Integration Technologies – Mule ESB & IDE or equivalent, previous Middleware experiences
Hands-on working experience in Oracle - should be proficient in creating SQL scripts and procedures.
Knowledge of Test-Driven Development and Unit Testing (Cucumber/Litmus, JUnit)
Able to handle code repositories using Bitbucket.
Able to contribute to 1. Automation 2. Causal analysis 3. Develop shared/common solutions.
Strong verbal and written communication skills (both to a technical and non-technical audience)
Analytical Thinking, Attention to Detail, Team Leadership, Problem Solving, Innovative thinking, mentoring

Nice To Haves

Exposure to tools namely Jenkins, WinSCP XLR, CI-CD framework is an added advantage.
Bachelors Degree in a Technical field
Knowledge and working experience in Agile Framework will be an added advantage.

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)
Creates an inclusive team where members are treated fairly and respectfully.
Demonstrates and expects process knowledge, data driven decisions, simplicity and continuous improvement.
Delivers clear and concise messages that motivate, convey the “why” and connects contributions to business results.
Leads and encourages the identification, escalation and resolution of potential risks.
Knows and develops team members through coaching and feedback.
Manages expenses and demonstrates an owner’s mindset.
Recruits, on-boards and develops talent, and supports talent mobility for career growth.
Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines.