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Software Engineer II A

Merrill Lynch

Merrill Lynch

Software Engineering
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Malad, Malad West, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · United States · Remote
Posted on Jul 30, 2025

Job Description:

Overview (Bank overview, GBS India overview, Function Overview)*

Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.

We are committed to attracting and retaining top talent across the globe to ensure our continued success. Along with taking care of our customers, we want to be the best place for people to work and aim at creating a work environment where all employees have the opportunity to achieve their goals.

We are a part of the Global Business Services which delivers technology and operations capabilities to all Bank of America lines of business (LOB) and enterprise functions.

Our employees help our customers and clients at every stage of their financial lives, helping them connect to what matters most. This purpose defines and unites us. Every day, we are focused on delivering value, convenience, expertise and innovation for individuals, businesses and institutional investors we serve worldwide.

* BA Continuum is a nonbank subsidiary of Bank of America, part of Global Business Services in the bank.

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

Post Trade Processing space is a dynamic, cross-functional organization with business analysts, developers and systems engineers, testing professionals and business/technical support professionals.

We are seeking for a senior developer to deliver some of the bank-wide initiatives, regulatory reporting and platform stability initiatives in post trade processing space. These are large, distributed enterprise applications and experience with comparable systems is a must. Role expectation is to drive End-to-end business deliveries by closely working with global counterparts.

Responsibilities

  • Design and Programming experience with Python or Java.
  • Strong in OOPs and design patterns
  • Messaging with JMS, TIBCO or other framework.
  • Experience developing high transaction/volume processing applications.
  • Capital markets business knowledge, including derivatives.
  • Experience in building support tools for production support and provide assistance as needed.
  • Ability to work in fast development environment and quickly adapt to the changes.
  • Experience/ Knowledge in Agile development methodology
  • Test Driven Development
  • Experience or knowledge in Object Oriented Database
  • A proactive approach to problem solving and think innovatively

Primary Skills required -

Python, React JS, Data analysis, Object oriented programming

Desired skills -

Python, Hadoop, Impala, Shell scripting, Any RDBMS or Object Oriented Database


Preferred Qualifications: MCA/B.E./B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech

Interpersonal Skill:

  • Superior verbal and written communication skills a must.
  • Should be proactive, have sense of ownership and have the ability to work independently.

Experience: 7-10 years of relevant experience.

Work Timings: 11 AM to 8 PM

Job Location: Chennai/Mumbai

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List of Process / Business with best suited profile fitment for the role*

GBAMT - FICC

Requisition ID*

To be filled by the TA Partner

Role Type*

Individual Contributor

Sub Band*

6B

Segment Type*

IT

Location*

Chennai/Mumbai

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, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

Responsibilities:

  • Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
  • Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
  • Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
  • Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
  • Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
  • Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
  • Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Skills:

  • Application Development
  • Automation
  • Collaboration
  • DevOps Practices
  • Solution Design
  • Agile Practices
  • Architecture
  • Result Orientation
  • Solution Delivery Process
  • User Experience Design
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Data Management
  • Risk Management
  • Technical Strategy Development
  • Test Engineering