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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.
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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 providing leadership, technical direction and oversight to a team delivering technology solutions. Key responsibilities of the job are to provide oversight of the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex computer programs, align technical solutions to business objectives, and ensure that coding practices/quality comply with software development standards. Job expectations include conducting multiple software implementations and applying both depth and breadth in knowledge of several technical competencies.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops and is accountable for feature delivery
• Applies enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality
• Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt
• Guides the team on work breakdown and execution
• Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria
• Plays a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team
• Guides team members with skills and practices (planning and estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices)
• Lead troubleshooting and performance tuning of complex SQL queries in Oracle 12c or higher environments.
• Use Toad 12.x or higher to analyze, optimize, and support day-to-day database development and operations.
• Query and validate JSON and XML database structures to support application and reporting requirements.
• Monitor and manage Oracle database health using Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM).
• Read, interpret, and explain AWR reports to identify bottlenecks and recommend remediation actions.
• Communicate technical findings and database strategies in business-friendly terms for non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide strong leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration across varied levels of influence.
• Produce clear, high-quality written documentation, recommendations, and executive-ready updates.

Position Summary:

The SQL Database Feature Lead is responsible for leading database performance, reliability, and operational excellence across Oracle environments (12c and above). This role provides technical leadership in query troubleshooting and tuning, mentors team members, and serves as a key bridge between technical and business stakeholders by translating complex database concepts into clear, actionable language. The position requires deep hands-on expertise with Oracle tooling and performance diagnostics, including Toad, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), and AWR report analysis, as well as experience querying modern data structures such as JSON and XML.

Required Qualifications:

• Payments or Banking background is highly preferred
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to team environment
• Experience working in Agile or Waterfall methodology and understanding of various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience developing packages and stored procedures using PL/SQL.
• Experience querying XML/JSON database structures.
• Experience and proficient knowledge of how to troubleshoot and performance tune queries.
• Experience working with Toad 12.x or higher

Desired Qualifications:

• Database Administration experience
• Experience developing with JDK for PL/SQL, Java, Oracle Stored procedures
• Knowledge and awareness of other non-Oracle DBMS technologies.
• Good understanding of Micro-Services Architecture

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• User Experience Design
• Analytical Thinking
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering

Skills:

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices

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