Senior Delivery Lead - Technology

Job Bank
Croydon, United Kingdom
7 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Croydon, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Quartz (Graphics Layer)
DevOps
Python
Systems Development Life Cycle
Release Management
Data Streaming
Systems Integration
Cloud Platform System
Model Validation

Job description

We are seeking a senior technical delivery leader to take responsibility of Business-As-Usual (BAU) delivery, stability, and evolution of the Strategic Full Reval Capability (SFRC) platform within Global Markets Technology.

SFRC is a strategic risk and P&L platform, underpinning key regulatory and trading risk capabilities across Global Markets. The platform supports a range of regulatory risk use cases, including:

  • Market Risk Stress Testing
  • CCAR
  • Full Revaluation VaR
  • Counterparty Credit Risk
  • FRTB Standardised Approach (SA)

This role is accountable for ensuring the ongoing integrity, scalability, and performance of the platform, while driving continuous improvement and alignment to future-state architecture.

Although positioned at Director level, this role requires a team-member who operates with Managing Director-level accountability, monitoring outcomes across federated and high-demand production ecosystem. You will combine strategic oversight with effective delivery leadership, ensuring stability, efficiency, and controlled change across the platform.

The role operates in a high-intensity environment, requiring the ability to maintain clarity, control, and delivery discipline under pressure, while balancing BAU priorities with ongoing platform evolution, * Own and drive end-to-end BAU delivery and platform stability, with accountability across technology, data, and quantitative components.

  • Ensure resilience, performance, and operational integrity of the SFRC platform across all supported regulatory use cases.
  • Lead prioritisation and execution of platform enhancements and fixes, balancing BAU stability with strategic evolution.
  • Maintain deep understanding of SFRC and Quartz architectures, guiding decisions, simplifying complexity, and ensuring alignment to target-state principles.
  • Oversee delivery across multiple contributing teams (Technology, Quants, Data, Risk, Market Data), actively managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
  • Drive effective incident management, root cause analysis, and remediation, ensuring continuous improvement in platform reliability.
  • Maintain ample governance and control oversight, ensuring compliance with regulatory, audit, and internal risk requirements.
  • Represent Technology in audit and regulatory interactions, owning responses and engaging credibly with control functions.
  • Own platform financials, including resource allocation, cost discipline, and prioritisation across competing demands.
  • Provide clear, concise updates to senior stakeholders, driving informed decision-making and accountability.
  • Work closely with engineering teams to ensure delivery discipline, quality, and clarity of requirements.
  • Drive adoption of efficient delivery practices, including automation, DevOps, and AI-enabled productivity where appropriate.
  • Work closely with delivery leads across multiple concurrent platforms, ensuring effective coordination between change and BAU activities, and enabling both to execute without conflict or compromise to platform stability.
  • 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., * At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise 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 as a result 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 wellbeing 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

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 mind-set 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.

Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our teammates.

View your "Know your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) " poster.

View the LA County Fair Chance Ordinance (https://dcba.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FCOE-Official-Notice-Eng-Final-8.30.2024.pdf) .

Requirements

  • Experience delivering and operating complex trading and market risk technology platforms.
  • Experience guiding large-scale BAU environments alongside ongoing change and enhancement.
  • Ability to operate at senior leadership levels, driving outcomes in high-pressure environments with minimal oversight.
  • High-level of stakeholder management across Front Office, Risk, Technology, and Finance.
  • Demonstrated ability to combine strategic thinking with practical execution.
  • Deep experience working with Quants, Market Risk, Model Validation, and regulatory stakeholders.
  • Robust technical grounding, with the ability to rapidly understand highly-detailed architectures, data flows, and system integrations.
  • Experience across the full SDLC, working closely with engineering and delivery teams.
  • Deep expertise in Agile and scaled delivery models.
  • Extensive knowledge of DevOps, release management, and environment coordination.
  • Experience monitoring production platforms, including incident, release, and change management.
  • Ample data and analytics awareness, when engaging with data, quant, and risk systems.
  • Proficiency in Python, enabling credible engagement with engineering teams.
  • Considerable understanding of risk, regulatory, and control frameworks within financial systems.

Skills that will help:

  • Familiarity with cloud-based architectures (Azure, AWS) and principles of scalability and resilience.
  • Experience leveraging AI-assisted delivery tools and enterprise copilots to improve productivity and efficiency.
  • AI copilots & generative AI tools

About the company

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!, Bank of America aims to create a workplace free from the dangers and resulting consequences of illegal and illicit drug use and alcohol abuse. Our Drug-Free Workplace and Alcohol Policy ("Policy") establishes requirements to prevent the presence or use of illegal or illicit drugs or unauthorized alcohol on Bank of America premises and to provide a safe work environment. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. Should you be offered a role with Bank of America, your hiring manager will provide you with information on the in-office expectations associated with your role. These expectations are subject to change at any time and at the sole discretion of the Company. To the extent you have a disability or sincerely held religious belief for which you believe you need a reasonable accommodation from this requirement, you must seek an accommodation through the Bank's required accommodation request process before your first day of work. This communication provides information about certain Bank of America benefits. Receipt of this document does not automatically entitle you to benefits offered by Bank of America. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this communication. However, if there are discrepancies between this communication and the official plan documents, the plan documents will always govern. Bank of America retains the discretion to interpret the terms or language used in any of its communications according to the provisions contained in the plan documents. Bank of America also reserves the right to amend or terminate any benefit plan in its sole discretion at any time for any reason.

Apply for this position