Hybrid Principal Engineer – Payments Modernization

at Bank of America

• Job title: Principal Engineer – Payments Modernization
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $156,500 - $230,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Cloud, Hibernate, J2EE, Java, Jenkins, Kafka, Oracle, Python, RabbitMQ, Spring, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Jersey City, United States

About the role

• Principal Engineer driving engineering solutions for payments modernization at Bank of America. Designing and optimizing the cloud-based payment processing platform on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Defines and leads the engineering approach for solutions at the program or portfolio level
• Continuously improves the design, quality, and reuse of the solution
• Delivers technology enablers that improve development efficiencies for the solution
• Develops the engineering approach for the entire program/portfolio solution
• Works with Architecture to develop/analyze/deliver the implementation of technical enablers
• Leads the planning, definition, and design of complex features spanning multiple teams
• Creates ideas on designing complex technology and solution development approaches
• Leads the technical oversight for teams in solution development including design reviews
• Defines the technology tool stack for the solution within internally approved technologies
• Explores state-of-the-art technologies to improve development efficiencies, quality of test/QA coverage, and release management
• Leads the end-to-end test strategy and adherence for a program/portfolio solution

Requirements

• Fifteen plus years experience with:
• Designing and implementing scalable, secure, and cost-effective AWS cloud architectures
• Migrating on-premises applications and data to the AWS cloud
• Creating and maintaining CloudFormation templates for infrastructure management
• Ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations
• Collaborating with clients and internal teams to gather requirements and develop solutions
• Optimizing existing cloud infrastructures for performance and cost-efficiency
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring to team members
• Recent experience tackling complex challenges in distributed data systems using Java (Enterprise Edition), Oracle SQL, and Python
• Experience using Java/J2EE technologies to develop scalable enterprise-grade applications, libraries, and frameworks
• Designed and developed solution architecture to scale backend systems with Spring framework, Spring MVC, and RESTful APIs
• Hands-on experience with messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ
• Utilized DevOps technologies for CI/CD including Ansible, Jenkins, JFrog, and Git
• Designed and implemented database development on Oracle Exadata
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring a team of engineers
• Strong understanding of software development, testing, deployment, and support using agile methodologies
• Expert-level proficiency in Java Enterprise Edition and related frameworks (e.g., Spring, Hibernate) and advanced SQL
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to write specifications and design documents.

Benefits

• Discretionary incentive eligible
• Access to paid time off
• Industry-leading benefits
• Resources and support to contribute to sustainable growth