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Senior Technology Manager- Senior Engineering Lead for Systematic Risk Trading

Jersey City, New Jersey

Job Description:

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Job Description:

This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Builds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectives

• Facilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skills

• Manages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are met

• Manages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organization

• Contributes to the technology strategy for their technical domain

• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

• Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders

Managerial Responsibilities:

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Diversity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company D&I goals.

• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.

• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.

• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.

• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.

• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.

• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.

• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Position Summary:

• Leading a regional team to build and enhance a comprehensive environment for systematic trading of risk. Components are built using modern Python and C++ along with integration with q/kdb+ for analytics and user interfaces for command and control

• Partnering closely with the global Systematic Risk Trading lead to help shape and drive execution of technology strategy

• Liaising with the Equity LOB to drive a cohesive product roadmap supporting multiple workflows across lines of business

• Analyzing business requirements, forming an architectural design, overseeing cross team development and testing, and managing production issues

• Collaborating closely with our Site Reliability Engineering group to achieve industry leading reliability and scalability

• Developing roadmaps for continuous platform improvement

Skills:

• Influence

• Risk Management

• Solution Design

• Stakeholder Management

• Technical Strategy Development

• Analytical Thinking

• Application Development

• Collaboration

• Result Orientation

• Solution Delivery Process

• Agile Practices

• Architecture

• Automation

• Data Management

• DevOps Practices

Required Skills

• Extensive experience in both Python and C++ development on Linux

• Expert in building quantitative Electronic Trading applications, with specific exposure to automated on-exchange market making

• Automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing

• Ability to architect resilient, instrumented, distributed systems achieving world class reliability

• Familiarity with Agile software development and associated best practices

• Enthusiastic, strong-minded person able to work closely with project teams in a multi-faceted role and help instill a responsible and professional culture

• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical partners

Desired Skills

• FINRA Series 57 licensed

• Deep knowledge of Equities/Futures/Options/FX asset classes and algorithmic trading of these products

• Familiarity with regulatory requirements for trading in AMRS markets

• Working knowledge in architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor Degree or equivalent working experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

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