Senior Market Data Infrastructure Engineer

Disability Solutions - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

At Bank of America, we are committed to helping make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Our approach to Responsible Growth emphasizes the importance of being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, hiring individuals from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, and investing heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits that support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being. We believe in the importance of collaboration while also providing flexibility to our employees, adapting our approach based on the various roles within our organization. This position is responsible for leading the most complex technical designs that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards, and policies. The key responsibilities include facilitating the deployment of complex technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks, and automation used during implementation. The role requires a consistent focus on improving the reliability and efficiency of service implementations while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. The Market Data Technology & Services (MDT&S) function within Application Production Services & Engineering is responsible for the full product lifecycle for News, Real-time, Reference, and Index data across the firm. MDT&S is organized globally and consists of departments such as Business Advisory & Inventory Management, Technical Engineering & Development, and Technical Operations Service Delivery. The Engineering & Development teams are tasked with the architecture and development of market data technologies deployed at the firm, aiming to provide a reliable managed market data service for business groups to facilitate the dissemination of pricing data globally. As a senior member of the Market Data Engineering team, the new hire will play a crucial role in designing and deploying technology solutions that meet business and enterprise requirements. The ideal candidate will possess multiple years of experience in market data technologies and will work closely with senior technologists from engineering, operations, and development communities, necessitating excellent communication and technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes and contributes to the technology strategy for end-to-end engineering solutions.
• Translates business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies.
• Participates in various steering committees for technical and infrastructure service domains.
• Leads the evaluation of reference models, blueprints, and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose.
• Mentors and guides team members to ensure system design technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of combined Technology and Market Data experience in an Enterprise environment.
• Demonstrates strong technical credibility.
• Knowledge of Market Data and related infrastructure technologies (e.g. TREP/RTDS, Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Unix, Linux, Networking).
• Experience in the design and deployment of large-scale Market Data/technology solutions.
• Good working knowledge of Linux and Windows operating environments.
• Excellent scripting ability (Bash, Python).
• Good knowledge of network technologies (TCP/IP, UDP, Multicast, Routing Protocols, Security).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exposure to programming to market data APIs (RFA, RT-SDK, Bloomberg etc).
• Facilitating and managing change - experience of Market Data delivery projects or components of change programs.
• Providing 3rd level support as the highest level of internal technical escalation.
• Experience of undertaking beta testing and feedback programs with key vendors.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, preferably in a technical or engineering discipline.
• Experience with direct exchange feeds and feed handling technologies.
• Programming in a core language (C++, Java, Python).
• CI/CD Tooling (Git, Jira, Ansible).
• Understanding of RESTful principles, best practices and related technologies.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits to support physical, emotional, and financial well-being.