Feature Lead - Technology
About The Position
At Bank of America, the Feature Lead provides technical leadership, direction, and oversight for a team delivering technology solutions. The role oversees the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex computer programs; aligns technical solutions with business objectives; and ensures coding practices and quality comply with software development standards. It involves conducting multiple software implementations and applying broad and deep technical knowledge. The position provides technology leadership for the Versana platform and supports strategic digital initiatives, risk distribution capabilities, agent-lender integrations, and platform modernization. Acting as both Application Risk Lead and Feature Lead, the role owns application stability, resiliency, controls, regulatory compliance, and delivery of key platform enhancements. It leads technology strategy, vendor and business partner engagement, production issue remediation, platform scalability, and roadmap features including amendment voting, agent feed enhancements, straight-through processing enablement, and integration capabilities. The role requires expertise in syndicated lending, LoanIQ, Versana architecture, APIs, data flows, and risk management. The role is based at the Jersey City, New Jersey location. Bank of America describes an in-office culture with role-specific flexibility based on responsibilities and business needs. The position is first shift and 40 hours per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a job-related field.
- 6–10 years of experience in technology delivery, software engineering, or Agile environments.
- Experience leading feature-level or workstream delivery within Agile/SAFe frameworks.
- Strong understanding of Agile processes, backlog refinement, and sprint execution.
- Technical experience in Salesforce, Mule, or enterprise integration environments.
- Proven ability to manage dependencies, risks, and multiple priorities.
- Strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Experience working in onsite/offshore and matrixed delivery models.
- Experience architecting, developing, and implementing solutions using real-time streaming technologies such as Spark Streaming or Kafka.
- Experience working with Exadata and Oracle SQL tuning.
- Experience developing streaming/near-real-time and batch data integration solutions.
- Hands-on experience in UNIX shell scripting.
- Working experience scheduling jobs with Autosys.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in Commercial Credit Technology or underwriting platforms.
- Exposure to production support and release management processes.
- Knowledge of enterprise risk, compliance, and audit requirements.
- Agile certifications such as Scrum or SAFe Practitioner.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and take accountability for feature delivery.
- Apply enterprise standards for solution design, coding, and quality.
- Ensure solutions meet product acceptance criteria while minimizing technical debt.
- Guide the team on work breakdown and execution.
- 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.
- Guide team members in planning, estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices.
- Provide end-to-end technology ownership of Versana platform strategy, feature delivery, operational stability, and risk governance.
- Lead execution of the Versana product roadmap, including strategic enhancements, integration capabilities, agent feed expansion, STP enablement, and platform modernization.
- Partner with business stakeholders, operations teams, vendors, and product management to prioritize initiatives, define feature requirements, and deliver solutions aligned with business objectives.
- Represent technology risk and ensure adherence to Enterprise Risk, Information Security, Architecture, and Regulatory standards.
- Own and manage the application risk profile, including identification, assessment, mitigation, tracking, and reporting of technology, operational, cybersecurity, resiliency, and third-party risks.
- Drive compliance with enterprise risk programs and mandates, including RISE, Trident, GIS, vulnerability management, software currency, disaster recovery, business continuity, and audit requirements.
- Lead remediation of technology findings, control gaps, audit observations, and regulatory issues, ensuring timely resolution and sustainable controls.
Benefits
- Access to paid time off.
- Industry-leading benefits and resources and support for employees.
- Eligible to participate in an annual discretionary incentive plan, with awards based on individual performance and behaviors, line-of-business or group performance and contributions, and company success.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
