Senior Engineer - Commodity Index Platform Lead

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · New York, NY

Senior Engineer to lead an engineering team supporting Commodities sales & trading desks at Bank of America. This role involves partnering with traders, sales, and quantitative research to design, build, and evolve front-office risk and pricing systems on the proprietary Quartz platform. Responsibilities include defining the technology stack, enabling CI/CD, providing technical leadership, and ensuring end-to-end solution delivery. The role also requires leading a team of 10-15 engineers, engaging daily with the desk, architecting on Quartz, delivering real-time risk, supporting pre-trade and client connectivity, and ensuring production excellence.

What you'd actually do

  1. Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
  2. Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
  3. Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of the CI-CD pipeline
  4. Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews
  5. Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level

Skills

Required

  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Domain Expertise
  • Risk Systems
  • Quartz / Python / ReactJS
  • Agile Development

Nice to have

  • C#/.NET for legacy components and migration strategy.
  • Experience with commodities venues and data (e.g., ICE, CME, LME, Bloomberg/Refinitiv) and pricing libraries.
  • Prior hands-on work with quant libraries and collaboration with quants.

What the JD emphasized

  • Commodities: deep knowledge of commodity index construction/maintenance and commodity derivatives (futures, options on futures, swaps), curve/term-structure dynamics, spreads/calendars, seasonality, and risk sensitivities/Greeks.
  • Risk Systems: hands-on experience building real-time risk/pricing and analytics platforms used on trading desks; strong grasp of PnL, VaR, stress, scenarios, intraday limits, and pre-trade checks.
  • Agile Development: CI/CD, automated testing, code review, secure coding, and change management in a regulated environment; familiarity with build pipelines and artifact management.