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At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.
We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
Job DescriptionThe Feature Lead serves as the technology owner for a business capability, application portfolio, or strategic platform within Global Markets Technology (GMT) Canada. The role is responsible for defining technology strategy, driving architecture decisions, shaping roadmaps, and leading execution across business and technology teams.
This is a player-coach role that combines technology strategy, architecture leadership, and hands-on engineering. The Feature Lead is expected to remain close to the technology by contributing to solution design, proof-of-concepts, code reviews, critical development activities, and complex problem resolution, while influencing the long-term direction of the platform.
The Feature Lead partners with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and delivery teams to modernize platforms, improve resiliency, accelerate AI adoption, and ensure technology investments align with business objectives.
Responsibilities- Own the technology vision, strategy, architecture, and roadmap for assigned business capabilities or platforms.
- Drive technology strategy and architecture while maintaining hands-on involvement in solution design, proof-of-concepts, code reviews, troubleshooting complex technical challenges, and critical development activities.
- Lead architectural decisions and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, engineering best practices, and long-term business objectives.
- Drive platform modernization, technical debt reduction, automation, AI adoption, and engineering productivity improvements.
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into technology solutions and investment priorities.
- Play a key role in Agile delivery and PI Planning by helping define technical priorities, assessing risks and dependencies, refining work, and shaping delivery plans.
- Influence engineering direction across teams and mentor developers on architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
- Promote operational excellence, platform resiliency, observability, and continuous improvement.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java, Python, and SQL.
- Experience designing, developing, and evolving large-scale enterprise applications and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, cloud technologies, CI/CD, modern engineering practices, and AI-assisted development tools.
- Experience working in Agile environments, including PI Planning, backlog management, dependency coordination, estimation, and delivery planning.
- Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on software engineering with technology strategy, architecture ownership, and technical leadership.
- Proven ability to influence technology direction across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Experience in Capital Markets, Global Markets, Fixed Income, Credit, Equities, Derivatives, Post-Trade, Risk, or…
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