Software Engineer III - Backend/Data Engineer

Bank of America

Charlotte, North Carolina, United StatesFull-timePosted Oct 16, 2026

About the role

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:

Business Finance Technology (BFO Tech) is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design, develop, modernize, and support database-driven applications, Oracle database components, ETL processes, and data integrations that enable enterprise financial management, reporting, and business operations. This is a hands-on engineering role primarily focused on Oracle Exadata, SQL, PL/SQL, database development, ETL, data processing, and performance optimization.

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)

Designs, develops, and supports Oracle database components, tables, views, stored procedures, packages, ETL processes, and data integrations using SQL, PL/SQL, and enterprise ETL tools such as Informatica or DataStage

Analyzes complex database, data, and application issues; performs SQL and database performance tuning; identifies root causes; and implements reliable solutions

Develops and integrates backend data services and interfaces to support end-to-end application functionality

Required Qualifications:

7+ years of software engineering experience focused on backend development, database development, ETL, and data integration

Strong experience with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, SQL, PL/SQL, stored procedures, packages, performance tuning, and query optimization

Experience designing, developing, and supporting ETL processes using Informatica and/or DataStage

Experience designing and supporting batch and near-real-time data integrations and processing workflows

Experience with data modeling, data quality controls, reconciliation, and troubleshooting complex data issues

Experience with Unix/Linux shell scripting and automation

Experience with enterprise workload scheduling tools such as AutoSys or comparable technologies

Experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and application deployment practices

Desired Qualifications:

Working knowledge of APIs and front-end technologies such as Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Experience developing distributed data-processing solutions using Python, PySpark, Apache Spark, or Hadoop

Experience with cloud-based data storage and processing technologies, including Amazon S3 or comparable platforms

Familiarity with modern workflow-orchestration technologies such as Airflow

Knowledge of data governance, metadata, lineage, application security, and technology-risk practices

Experience developing financial services, financial management, or enterprise reporting applications

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

Responsibilities

  • Develop, test, and deliver software that meets functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.
  • Design, develop, and support Oracle database components, ETL processes, and data integrations.
  • Analyze complex database and application issues, tune performance, and implement reliable solutions.
  • Develop backend data services and interfaces for end-to-end application functionality.
  • Maintain automated integration, regression, and performance test suites.
  • Automate release activities and promote CI/CD practices.
  • Refine requirements, estimate work, and conduct proofs of concept to mitigate delivery risks.
  • Mentor software engineers and coach the team on development practices.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience in backend development, database development, ETL, and data integration.
  • Strong experience with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, SQL, PL/SQL, stored procedures, packages, and performance tuning.
  • Experience developing and supporting ETL processes with Informatica and/or DataStage.
  • Experience with batch and near-real-time data integrations, data modeling, data quality, and reconciliation.
  • Experience with Unix/Linux shell scripting, automation, and workload schedulers such as AutoSys.
  • Experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and application deployment.
  • Knowledge of APIs, distributed data processing, cloud data platforms, workflow orchestration, or financial applications is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Affordable, competitive, and flexible benefits.
  • Support for physical, emotional, and financial wellness.
  • Opportunities to learn, grow, and develop a career.

Skills mentioned

Oracle DatabaseSQLETLData EngineeringData PipelinesQuery OptimizationLinuxShell ScriptingCI/CDAutomation

About Bank of America

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individuals, 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. The company serves approximately 56 million U.S. consumer and small business relationships. It is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/32FDdQr. For account issues, please visit: https://bit.ly/2GeTIeP.

Banking10,001+ employeesCharlotte, NC

H-1B sponsorship history

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