Senior Engineer

Job Description:

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 Description:

This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

Position Summary – AI Lead

The AI Lead is responsible for providing LoB-level thought leadership, scalable AI architecture, and end-to-end delivery of artificial intelligence solutions from proof of concept through production. This role drives the adoption of modern AI, LLM, RAG, and agentic design patterns across multiple teams and applications, ensuring solutions are secure, reusable, well-governed, and aligned to business outcomes. The role also develops understanding of Bank’s internal AI frameworks & design standards to enable solution that meet enterprise design & implementation requirements.

The AI Lead contributes to defining and evolving the AI and agentic architecture roadmap, translating business needs into production-ready AI capabilities while enforcing consistent design, development, and quality standards. This role plays a critical part in enabling teams to deliver AI features efficiently by leveraging shared frameworks, reusable components, and standardized delivery processes.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution

• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)

• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline

• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews

• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level

• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features

• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years in software engineering

• 2 years in AI and Data platform

• Design, develop and be accountable for feature delivery.

• Apply enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality.

• Ensure solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt.

• Responsible for compliance and security items and audit support at the team level.

• Act as a liaison for production activities/issues. Work Planning and Execution

• Work with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria.

• Guide the team on work breakdown and execution. Team Mentorship

• Play a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentor the team.

• Guide team members with skills and practices (planning & estimation, peer reviews and other engineering practices).

• Identify skill and role gaps and work with Technology Manager to address them.

• Work with Technology Manager in creating resource contingency plans where required.

Primary Skills:

• AI & GenAI: LLM applications, RAG, Text-to-SQL, LangGraph, LangChain, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Prompt Engineering, Vector Similarity Hybrid Search

• Models: Microsoft 365 Copilot & Copilot Studio, GPT-4/ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude Sonnet/Opus (Anthropic), Llama 3 (Meta), Human-in-the-loop Workflows

• ML & Deep Learning: Transformer Architecture, Self-Attention, Tokenization, Embeddings, Chunking Strategies, Fine-Tuning Concepts (SFT, LoRA, QLoRA), RLHF, Neural Networks, Hallucination Detection,

• Data Engineering: Handling structured & unstructured data, real-time data ingestion, Databricks, Apache Spark, Cloudera, S3, Data Pipeline Optimization

• Languages & Frameworks: Python, Java, FastAPI, REST APIs, SQL, Node.js

• Cloud & Infrastructure: MS Azure, S3, ElastiCache, Containerization, Jenkins, CI/CD, OpenShift, Artifactory

Skills:

• Automation

• Influence

• Result Orientation

• Stakeholder Management

• Technical Strategy Development

• Application Development

• Architecture

• Business Acumen

• Risk Management

• Solution Design

• Agile Practices

• Analytical Thinking

• Collaboration

• Data Management

• Solution Delivery Process

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.