Job Description:

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Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview

Global Markets Technology & Operations provides end-to-end technology solutions for Global Markets businesses including Equities, Prime Brokerage, Interest Rates, Currencies, Commodities, Derivatives and Structured Products. Across all these products, solutions include architecture, design, development, change management, implementation and support using various enterprise technologies. In addition, GMT&O provides Sales, Electronic Trading, Trade Work Flow, Pricing, and Market Risk, Middle office, Collateral Management, Credit Risk, Post-trade confirmation, Settlement and Client service processes for Trading, Capital Markets, and Wealth Management businesses.

Job Description: -

The role will require close interaction with traders, sales, quants and technology stakeholders to understand business requirements and develop or enhance solutions that support Rates trading, electronic execution and systematic FICC trading strategies. The candidate will be responsible for analysis, design, implementation and testing of components across trade capture, pricing, RFQ/order workflows, FIX-based connectivity and risk valuation systems.

The teams use agile development with varying levels of maturity amongst them. India team is distributed across Chennai, Mumbai, Gift and the global team across London, New York and Houston. The role would require a close engagement with stakeholders in FICC Macro technology function. He/She should be good in juggling between multiple priorities and delegate work to the team as applicable. He/She should be able to extract work from the team and at the same time keep the team motivated. Should be good in Python, Quartz knowledge is much preferable.

Responsibilities

Ideal candidate should have experience in developing server-side applications handling real time data. Should be able to design and high performance, scalable solutions and respond to a fast-paced environment. Experience in GUI development and Front Office environments is advantageous.

In addition to the above the person should

. Participate within milestone projects.

. Work closely with other FICC Macro technology teams.

. Manage and escalate risks and issues

. Ability to analyze, design, develop and troubleshoot new and existing applications

. Learning new technologies and framework

. Interact with PMs and users to gather requirements

. Optimize and tune existing modules for better performance

. Collaborate with DEV/BAU/MAPS teams for deliverables

. Onboard, enhance and support ECN connectivity for outbound price distribution, RFQ and Order protocols across major Fixed Income ECNs.

. Design, develop and troubleshoot FIX protocol integrations supporting electronic trading workflows within FICC markets.

. Partner with trading, sales, quant and technology teams to support systematic and portfolio trading capabilities across broader FICC workflows.

. Contribute to automation testing and back testing frameworks to validate trading functionality, regression coverage and systematic FICC strategy support

Requirements

Education- Bachelors/Master's degree in computer science or engineering or similar

Certifications if any- NA

Experience Range- 12 -15 Yrs

Foundational skills:

Hands on experience in server side programming using Python.
Strong exposure to SQL server database or any other object based or RDBMS systems.
Good understanding of OOPS concepts
Strong interpersonal skills and experienced in communicating complex solutions with both technical and Business users.
Must be able to handle multiple tasks and adapt to a constantly changing environment
Exposure to threading and messaging services will be an additional value-add
Experience in people management
Understanding of Qz and FICC Macro Trading Business is preferable.

Desired skills

Development experience in a large scale global software deployment
Experience of Fixed Income products trading would be very advantageous

Work Timings- 11:30 AM - 8:30 PM

Job Location- Chennai

Senior Engineer - GBS IND