Principal Engineer | Head Of Engineering

Principal Engineer
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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.

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At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Our London office is based just a stone’s throw from the magnificent St. Finally, your physical wellness is well-catered for with our onsite gym facilities and medical centre.

Welcome to the Horizontal Risk team. We work on a blend of initiative projects covering some of Global Markets biggest programs of work as well as business and market driven changes and supporting the smooth running of the systems day to day in partnership with our support team.

We also work closely with other Front office Risk teams in the wider Global Markets technology team.

We provide all new joiners with a comprehensive training plan which is a mixture of online resources, support from colleagues, training sessions and hands on learning that will help grow your skill set further and gain domain knowledge.

Some of our highlights over the last few years have been building an intraday risk platform for trading and providing enhanced and simplified cross asset finance reporting

We are looking for highly motivated and experienced hands-on Principal engineer with proven ability writing elegant and maintainable python code as well as investment banking experience in the global markets space. The member will be working closely with various technology teams and business partners (Middle office, Front office, Business Supervision Officers, Finance) to build out Risk application for the FICC lines of businesses.

The technologies we primarily use are python. There will also be a requirement be fully engaged in the development lifecycle of the project including supporting UAT and regression testing. - Solid years of software engineering experience
Good understanding of programming paradigms such as distributed architectures and working with large data sets
Develop, test and deliver complex software requirements to accomplish business goals
Solid knowledge of contemporary development processes, build environments and testing tools
Ideally solid experience in the Financial Services industry
Good working knowledge of front office risk in any business within Global Markets
Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant analytical degree
Knowledge or experience of agile development (e.g. XP, SCRUM, Kanban) and continuous integration
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to work closely with other technology teams, business groups including trading, finance, technology and middle office
Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.

• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.
• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.
• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability.