Java Developer III (EIT Technology)

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 developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

Position Summary:

The Java Developer III will serve as the primary onshore technical lead for the OMNIA platform, a business-critical application used by over 5,000 users across EIT. This role is responsible for designing, developing, and supporting scalable enterprise solutions while ensuring platform stability, performance, and delivery of strategic initiatives.

Working closely with the Architect, Technology Manager, Product Owner, and business stakeholders, the successful candidate will translate business requirements into robust technical designs, lead development activities, and drive delivery of the Book of Work. The role will also provide technical leadership and mentorship to the development team, promote engineering best practices, and ensure high standards of code quality, performance, and maintainability.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Java Full Stack development, strong PL/SQL and database expertise, systems integration experience, and a proven track record delivering enterprise-scale applications in Agile environments.

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 coach 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)
• Lead the design, development, testing, and implementation of enterprise application solutions for the platform.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, Product Owners, Architects, and project teams to define technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development team members.
• Drive solution design, code reviews, performance optimization, and adherence to development standards.
• Develop and support REST/SOAP services, integrations, and backend services using Java and Spring technologies.
• Design and optimize complex SQL and PL/SQL solutions to support application functionality and performance.
• Support production stability, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to Agile delivery processes, sprint planning, estimation, and execution.
• Ensure application scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver critical business and strategic initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of applicable experience
• Must have demonstrated experience designing, developing, and testing real-world, enterprise applications.
• Must have experience using SVN, Maven, Jenkins, and Sonar as well JavaScript tools such as NodeJS, NPM, Jasmine, Karma.
• Must have experience in performance tuning and code optimization.
• Must have experience using Scrum and following Agile best practices.
• Must have hands-on Java experience, including analysis, design, and testing.
• Must have experience using Spring framework (all modules), Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Test Framework, Spring RESTful services, Transaction Management, Spring Annotations.
• Must have experience developing and consuming web services using SOAP or REST.
• Must have experience using JPA / Hibernate and developing complex queries using native / HQL.
• Must have working knowledge of Infrastructure for a typical web application (web servers, app servers, Configurations etc….).
• Must have relational database experience with a solid understanding of SQL and modelling concepts.

Desired Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of Javascript functional programming concepts, object-oriented techniques, and modern front-end web development standards and best-practices.
• Web UI development would be desired. Working experience with UI technologies like HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS would be desired.
• CSS frameworks like Bootstrap.
• Unix shell scripting experience.
• Prior experience with ETL tools like Informatica, SSIS is good to have.
• Nice to have skillsets: AutoSys, Hadoop, S3

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$102,900.00 - $179,900.00 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.