Feature Lead - Technology - GenAI Platform
About The Position
The Feature Lead provides leadership, technical direction, and oversight to a team implementing Bank of America’s Global Markets GenAI platform. The role collaborates with Global Markets Sales & Trading, Quantitative Strategies & Data Group, Research, Operations, and platform teams to integrate business use cases into reusable, scalable, and sustainable solutions. The platform uses proprietary and open-source large language models and large structured and unstructured datasets. The position involves hands-on participation throughout the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture design, coding, testing, and deployment. The Feature Lead drives feature delivery and projects, mentors junior team members, supports engineering practices and continuous improvement, and helps ensure solutions align with business objectives and enterprise development standards.
Requirements
- Experience designing and implementing multi-tier application platforms, including microservices.
- High proficiency in Python and Unix scripting.
- In-depth knowledge of relational databases such as Oracle and MySQL, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
- Experience processing large structured and unstructured datasets.
- Knowledge of front-end languages, libraries, and frameworks, including HTML/CSS, JavaScript, XML, React, and jQuery.
- Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with stakeholders.
- Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience implementing data analytics or AI solutions.
- Knowledge of machine-learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- Knowledge of LLM fine-tuning, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and tools for agentic solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and take accountability for feature delivery, including end-to-end platform implementation and related business use cases.
- Apply enterprise standards for solution design, coding, and quality, and ensure product acceptance criteria are met with minimal technical debt.
- Guide the team in work breakdown and execution, planning, estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices.
- Work with the Product Owner to maintain a healthy product backlog and clear acceptance criteria.
- Serve as an individual-contributor team lead and mentor team members.
- Develop and troubleshoot high-performance APIs using FastAPI and Python.
- Implement distributed caching, containerization, and message queues for scalable systems.
- Ensure CI/CD pipelines support automated testing and deployment.
- Identify, prioritize, and execute tasks throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Establish standards and lead automation efforts to improve end-to-end SDLC efficiency.
- Implement hardware upgrades and software enhancements to meet global performance expectations.
Benefits
- Industry-leading benefits.
- Access to paid time off.
- Eligible to participate in the annual discretionary incentive plan; awards are based on individual performance and behaviors, business-line or group contributions, and the company’s overall success.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
