Senior Delivery Lead

Location Overview

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London's greenest boroughs. Here you'll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

Team

The Strategic Full Reval Capability (SFRC) team is responsible for delivering the bank's strategic risk technology platform for Global Markets. The team focuses on building scalable, high performance risk and P&L solutions used across the business, supporting senior trading guidance, Market Risk, and Quantitative Analytics functions. SFRC is a global technology team of highly skilled engineers, with representation across London, New York, Chicago, Singapore, and key locations in India. Operating in an Agile environment, the team works closely with business stakeholders to deliver robust, enterprise grade risk solutions at pace.

Role Description

This is a high impact delivery leadership role, requiring Managing Director level ownership, pace, and decision making within a Director mandate. As part of the accelerated delivery of the Basel 3.1 FRTB IMA (Internal Models Approach) programme, we are seeking a senior technical delivery leader to join the London based Global Markets Technology - Strategic Full Reval Capability (SFRC) team. The role is positioned at Director level but requires an individual who operates with Managing Director level, highly responsible pace, and judgement. You will take full accountability for delivery outcomes across a highly detailed, federated programme landscape, while remaining actively engaged in solution design, execution, and issue resolution.

Responsibilities

• Have responsibility for and drive end to end delivery of the FRTB IMA programme, with full accountability for outcomes across technology, data, and quantitative workstreams.
• Guide the design and execution of the IMA solution, ensuring clear alignment between regulatory requirements, business objectives, and technical delivery.
• Rapidly develop deep understanding of SFRC and Quartz architectures to guide strategies, investigate complexity, and ensure scalable, efficient solutions.
• Maintain direct oversight of delivery across all contributing teams (Technology, Quants, Data, QSDG, GRA QE, Market Data), actively managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Drive execution at pace, proactively resolving blockers and ensuring milestones are delivered on time and within budget.
• Represent Technology in audit and regulatory engagements, owning responses and interfacing with regulators and control functions.
• Monitor regulatory developments and guide impact assessment and adoption in partnership with Global Risk Analytics and business stakeholders.
• Have responsibility for programme financials, including funding, resource prioritisation, and cost control across Technology, Risk, Front Office, and Finance.
• Provide concise, decision focused updates to senior guidance and guide governance forums to drive accountability and momentum.
• Work directly with engineering and delivery teams to ensure clarity of requirements and maintain focus, quality, and delivery discipline.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering highly detailed trading and market risk programmes, ideally aligned to FRTB or similar regulatory initiatives.
• Proven ability to operate at senior levels in high pressure, time critical environments, taking ownership and driving outcomes with minimal oversight.
• Excellent guidance presence, with the ability to influence, highly detailed, and align senior stakeholders across Front Office, Risk, Technology, and Finance.
• Demonstrated ability to combine strategic thinking with execution, stepping into detail where required to drive progress.
• Ample technical grounding, with the ability to rapidly understand highly detailed architectures, data flows, and system integrations and apply this understanding from the outset.

Technical Skills and Experience

• Proven experience across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), with the ability to work effectively with developers, business analysts, and delivery teams.
• Deep expertise in Agile and scaled delivery models within highly detailed multi team environments.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, release management, and environment coordination.
• Ample data and analytics awareness, with experience working closely with data, quant, and risk teams.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar), enabling credible engagement with engineering teams and challenge of solution design.
• Ample awareness of risk, regulatory, and control considerations within large scale financial systems.
• Preferred: familiarity with cloud based architectures (Azure, AWS) and values of scalability and resilience.
• Preferred: practical understanding of AI enabled delivery, including the use of enterprise copilots and generative AI tools.

Benefits of working at Bank of America

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen.
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover.
• 26 weeks paid maternity leave, 16 weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements.
• 20 days of back up childcare and 20 days of back up adult care per annum.
• Flexible benefits via a flex fund and a well being account.
• Access to a well being helpline, virtual GP services and the Peppy App.
• Access to gyms, exercise classes and wellbeing apps through Wellhub, including Headspace and Calm.
• Opportunities to volunteer and give back to your community.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Bank of America is an equal opportunities employer and does not consider any applicant to be 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.