Sr Quantitative Finance Analyst - Program Lead

Bank of America • Jersey City, NJ

85d • $125,000 - $210,000

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! Senior Quantitative engineers in Global Risk are responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of common, reusable, and scalable software components. These components enable GRM’s data and analytical capabilities. These components can be domain independent (e.g., generic data quality tools over billions of rows of data) or domain specific (e.g., classification models for surveillance or testing framework for Global Markets processes). Senior Quantitative engineers work with senior modelers, risk managers, and technologists to understand the current state and design the future state of data and analytics. Senior Quantitative engineers have a combination of software engineering, big data, modeling and management skills and the ability to work across the entire spectrum of a big data stack – from data to logic to model to UI to UX.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a closely related field, or a degree from a program where software engineering was a key focus or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of relevant work experience in Business or Product or Project Management.
• Self-motivation, self-direction, organizational skills with the ability to understand deeply technical areas quickly, ability to organize projects, manage multiple projects, multiple stakeholders.
• Strong leadership skills - Ability to foster strong collaboration among team members and help solve problems.
• Experience in financial services or a related field.
• Experience of business management and project management in a fast-paced organization.
• Strong influencing skills.
• Strong communication skills; able to work with senior management.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity to drive forward opportunities for improvement.
• 'Control' oriented experience and mindset.
• Working knowledge of risk management.

Nice To Haves

• Experience of Quantitative Engineering.
• Experience of model development and the Model development lifecycle.
• Excellent proficiency and hands-on experience with JIRA (Horizon tools).
• Programming skills including Python, SQL – or the desire to learn these skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive forward Business, Product and Project Management capabilities across GRQE.
• Support Tech Lead in managing the team, particularly timely and effective delivery of the book of work, removing roadblocks for the team and make the team operate more efficiently.
• Support COO in driving out future strategy for GRQE.
• Responsible for driving forwards multiple concurrent projects, particularly the implementation of models onto the organization's target-state infrastructure and adoption of modular and reusable components, ensuring adherence to team business practices as well as Enterprise project governance and Change Management standards.
• Support effective delivery through strong project management practices and provision of project management expertise to modelers and test owners.
• Provide business support to GRQE COO as necessary – this may include capacity planning, reports and returns, hiring activities, managing routines, etc.
• Drive Operational Excellence across GRQE through leading identification and implementation of change activities.
• Explore opportunities to automate project management and business management processes and reporting.
• Explore ways to optimize the team operating model for project management and business management practices.

Benefits

• Industry-leading benefits.
• Access to paid time off.
• Resources and support to employees.
• Discretionary incentive eligible.
• Annual discretionary award based on individual performance results and behaviors.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree