Bank of America
Quantitative Engineer
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Job Title: Quantitative Engineer
Corporate Title: Up to Assistant Vice President
Location: Bromley
Company Overview:
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.
One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.
Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
Location Overview:
Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.
Job Description:
This job is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and implementing common, reusable, and scalable software components which are either domain independent (generic data quality tools over billions of rows of data) or domain specific (classification models for surveillance or testing framework for Global Markets processes). Key responsibilities include enabling Global Risk Management's data and analytical capabilities. Job expectations include working with modelers, risk managers, and technologists to understand the current state and design the future state of data and analytics.
Responsibilities:
- Applies quantitative methods to develop capabilities that meet line of business, risk management, and regulatory requirements
- Understands financial data: schemas, flow, size, data issues, data controls, etc.
- Builds performant big data pipelines
- Uses programming skills and knowledge of software development lifecycle principles to deliver high-quality code for model and testing processes
- Collaborates with key stakeholders across the Bank to understand modelling and testing business processes and requirements
- Thinks outside the box of current industry standards to develop innovative approaches
- Maintains and continuously enhances capabilities over time to respond to the changing nature of portfolios, economic conditions, and emerging risks
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What we are looking for:
Candidates should meet all or a subset of the following technical skills:
- Software engineering: modular code, software lifecycle processes, unit testing, regression testing
- Big data: distributed computing paradigms (e.g., mapreduce, dataframes, etc), optimizing distributed software
- Modelling / quantitative: basic modelling techniques (regression, classification, clustering, etc)
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience
- Critical Thinking
- Data Modelling
- Process Effectiveness
- Risk Modelling
- Test Engineering
- Influence
- Oral Communications
- Prioritization
- Relationship Building
- Written Communications
- Attention to Detail
- Change Management
Skills that will help:
- Global Risk Management experience
Benefits of working at Bank of America (UK):
At Bank of America, we strive to prioritize employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.
- Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.
- Competitive pension plan, life assurance, and group income protection cover if you become unable to work because of a disability or health reasons.
- We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
- The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a well-being account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.
- Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
- Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, and virtual GP services
- Access to the Peppy App which provides 1:1 support, consultations and resources relating to men’s health, women’s health, fertility, menopause, and pregnancy & parenthood.
- Access to a range of gyms, exercise classes, and wellbeing Apps through Wellhub, including Headspace and Calm
- Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.
- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area.
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Bank of America:
Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long-term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mindset are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.
We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religious or similar philosophical belief, political opinion, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, and experience.
We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.
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