Data Engineer I A - GBS IND Chennai, India;Zone 1, Gift Sez **To proceed with your application, you must be at least 18 years of age.** Acknowledge Refer a friend **To proceed with your application, you must be at least 18 years of age.** Acknowledge (https://ghr.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/lateral-ba\_continuum/job/Chennai-Tamil-Nadu/Data-Engineer-I-A---GBS-IND\_25031037) **Job Description:** **About Us** At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day. One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being. Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization. Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us! **Global Business Services** Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations. Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation. In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services. **Process Overview*** The Data Analytics Strategy platform and decision tool team is responsible for Data strategy for entire CSWT and development of platforms which supports the Data Strategy. Data Science platform, Graph Data Platform, Enterprise Events Hub are key platforms of Data Platform initiative. **Job Description*** We are seeking a Senior Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and development of modern distributed applications. The role requires both hands-on coding and collaboration with stakeholders to drive strategic design decisions. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in developing and deploying cloud-native applications, combined with strong expertise in distributed systems and OpenShift or Kubernetes based platforms. This is a Data Science and Engineering role in Data Platforms team that builds & maintains a Data Science Platform the CSWT line of business. The incumbent will be part of the team building/supporting a single unified AI/user interface for consumer applications as well as for fraud and AML tracking. Candidate should have hands on experience with various technology stack involved to build and support Modern Data science platform to enable Data scientists, Analysts and Modelers to run advanced analytics, build and train models on the platform. An expert who envisions the emerging technology trends, research, keeps track of new software & tools that can help build the Data Science platform. Candidate must possess a passion for producing high quality software and solutions, be ready to jump in and solve complex problems. **Responsibilities*** + Actively contribute to hands-on coding, building core components, APIs and microservices while ensuring high code quality, maintainability, and performance. + Ensure adherence to engineering excellence standards and compliance with key organizational metrics such as code quality, test coverage and defect rates. + Integrate secure development practices, including data encryption, secure authentication, and vulnerability management into the application lifecycle. + Work on adopting and aligning development practices with CI/CD best practices to enable efficient build and deployment of the application on the target platforms like VMs and/or Container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, OpenShift etc. + Collaborate with stakeholders to align technical solutions business requirements, driving informed decision-making and effective communication across teams. + Develop efficient utilities, automation frameworks, data science platforms that can be utilized across multiple Data Science teams. + Propose/Build variety of efficient Data pipelines to support the ML Model building & deployment. + Propose/Build automated deployment pipelines to enable self-help continuous deployment process for the Data Science teams. + Analyze, understand, execute and resolve the issues in user scripts / model / code. + Perform release and upgrade activities as required. + Well versed in the open-source technology and aware of emerging 3rd party technology & tools in AI-ML space. + Ability to fire fight, propose fix, guide the team towards day-to-day issues in production. + Ability to train partner Data Science teams on frameworks and platform. + Flexible with time and shift to support the project requirements. It doesn’t include any night shift. + This position doesn’t include any L1 or L2 (first line of support) responsibility. **Requirements*** **Education*** + Graduation / Post Graduation: BE/B.Tech/MCA/MTech. + **Certifications If Any:** Generative AI, Data Science & NLP. **Experience Range*** + 02 Years To 04 Years. **Foundational Skills*** + Experience with Data Science, artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools and technologies (Python, R, H2O, Spark, SparkML) + Strong knowledge in cloud platform technologies and good to have experience in at least one major cloud platform like AWS, Azure or GCP. **Desired Skills*** + Experience building and supporting E2E Data Science (using AI and ML) and Advanced Analytics platform for Model development, Model building & deployment. + Extensive hands-on supporting platforms to allow modelling and analysts go through the complete model lifecycle management (data munging, model develop/train, governance, deployment) + Experience with model deployment, scoring and monitoring for batch and real-time on various technologies and platforms. + Experience in automation for deployment using Ansible Playbooks, scripting. + Design and build and deploy streaming and batch data pipelines capable of processing and storing large datasets quickly and reliably using Kafka, Spark and YARN for large volumes of data (TBs) + Experience designing and building full stack solutions utilizing distributed computing or multi-node architecture for large datasets (terabytes to petabyte scale) + Hands on experience working in a Cloud Platform (AWS/Azure/GCP) to support the Data Science + Effective communication, Strong stakeholder engagement skills, Proven ability in leading and mentoring a team of software engineers in a dynamic environment. **Work Timings*** + 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM IST **Job Location*** Chennai & GIFT. 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