Given the pace and complexity of the programme, you will be able to rapidly build a working understanding of highly detailed technical architectures and contribute immediately guiding design decisions, challenging complexity, and ensuring alignment to platform values from the outset.

Your role operates in a high-intensity, time-critical environment and requires the ability to maintain deep experience working with Quants, Market Risk, Model Validation, Finance, and regulatory stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Have responsibility for and drive end-to-end delivery of the FRTB IMA programme, with full accountability for outcomes across technology, data, and quantitative workstreams.
• Guide the design and execution of the IMA solution, ensuring clear alignment between regulatory requirements, business objectives, and technical delivery.
• Rapidly develop deep understanding of SFRC and Quartz architectures to guide strategies, investigate complexity, and ensure scalable, efficient solutions.
• Maintain direct oversight of delivery across all contributing teams (Technology, Quants, Data, QSDG, GRA QE, Market Data), actively managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Drive execution at pace, proactively resolving blockers and ensuring milestones are delivered on time and within budget.
• Represent Technology in audit and regulatory engagements, owning responses and interfacing with regulators and control functions.
• Monitor regulatory developments and guide impact assessment and adoption in partnership with Global Risk Analytics and business stakeholders.
• Have the responsibility programme financials, including funding, resource prioritisation, and cost control across Technology, Risk, Front Office, and Finance.
• Provide concise, decision-focused updates to senior guidance and guide governance forums to drive accountability and momentum.
• Work directly with engineering and delivery teams to ensure clarity of requirements and maintain focus, quality, and delivery discipline.
• Adhere to SFRC programme management standards, providing timely, high-quality updates and inputs to the SFRC Programme Lead (including weekly status and monthly achievements) in a timely manner.

Technical Skills and Experience:

• Extensive experience delivering highly detailed trading and market risk programmes, ideally aligned to FRTB or similar regulatory initiatives.
• Proven ability to operate at senior levels in high-pressure, time-critical environments, taking ownership and driving outcomes with minimal oversight.
• Excellent guidance presence, with the ability to influence, highly detailed, and align senior stakeholders across Front Office, Risk, Technology, and Finance.
• Demonstrated ability to combine strategic thinking with execution, stepping into detail where required to drive progress.
• Ample technical grounding, with the ability to rapidly understand highly detailed architectures, data flows, and system integrations and apply this understanding from the outset.
• Proven experience across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), with the ability to work effectively with developers, business analysts, and delivery teams.
• Deep expertise in Agile and scaled delivery models within, highly detailed multi-team environments.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, release management, and environment coordination.
• Ample data and analytics awareness, with experience working closely with data, quant, and risk teams.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar), enabling credible engagement with engineering teams and challenge of solution design.
• Ample awareness of risk, regulatory, and control considerations within large-scale financial systems.

Technical Skills and Experience (Preferred):

• Familiarity with cloud-based architectures (for example Azure, AWS) and values of scalability and resilience.
• Practical understanding of AI-enabled delivery, including the use of enterprise copilots and generative AI tools to accelerate delivery and improve productivity.

Skills that will help:

• Experience in Python
• AI copilots & generative AI tools

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

• Prioritising employees’ health and wellbeing.
• 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 as a result of a disability or health reasons.
• Offering 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.
• 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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