Software Engineer III - SAS Application Development

Bank of America - Newark, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Newark, NJ

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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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day. One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being. Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization. Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Responsibilities

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained.
• Mentors other software engineers and coaches the team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack.
• Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle.
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Automates manual release activities.
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance).

Requirements

• 7-10 years of experience (preferably in the financial industry).
• UNIX/LINUX experience, well-versed with commands as part of Shell Scripting.
• Strong SQL experience with DB2, Oracle or MS SQL Server.
• Proven experience in JAVA/J2EE and Object-Oriented Design and Programming.
• Strong Spring experience (Spring Batch or Spring Integration a plus).
• At least one ORM/Persistence Framework: iBatis/MyBatis, Hibernate, JPA.
• SOA, REST/SOAP Web Services, CXF, JAXWS/JAXRS, JSON, XML.
• Maven, Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI), JUnit, Mockito.
• IDE: Eclipse, RAD, or other Single Page Application (SPA) development.
• At least one RIA Framework: jQuery (preferred), YUI, Ext JS, DOJO.
• Front-end web development with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ajax.
• Experience in using version control tools like Bit Bucket, GitHub and Subversion.
• Agile/Iterative development and full SDLC development.

Nice-to-haves

• Stored Procedures, NDMs, AutoSys.
• Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, MQ.
• Development in a Cloud environment.
• SAS experience a huge plus.

Benefits

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