Vice President, APAC Network Data Engineering Lead, Core Technology Infrastructure

Job Description:
Your background

• Minimum of 10+ years with hands-on experience in Data Engineering & Deployment team preferably in the banking and finance industry.
• Strong knowledge and experience in engineering and deployment of network solutions including Routing and Switching, Security (CheckPoint, Palo Alto, Fortinet Firewalls), Wireless (Cisco, Aruba), Micro segmentation (ISE/Clearpass), SD-WAN, Data Center SDA (ACI/NSX), Orchestration and Automation (Ansible, Python, Cisco DNAC)
• Strong knowledge of networking communication principles, network standards, and network security practices.
• Strong knowledge in building low latency networks supporting HFT business.
• Strong Working Knowledge of Market Data delivery networks using both TCP and UDP multicast with an ability to comprehensively troubleshoot through these networks.
• Experience in network analytics through packet capture (Sniffer) analysis and end system diagnostics (Netscout).
• In-depth knowledge on common routing protocols and WAN technologies including but not limited to BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, Multicast, and MPLS/VPLS.
• Expertise in creating Application and network diagrams including all pertinent flows and decisions.
• Capability to summarize complex issues into executive summaries.
• Proven leadership experience, ability to motivate teams and drive execution, with performance driven with the necessary intensity and optimism to succeed and deliver.
• Possesses strong analytical skills and root cause investigation techniques with a desire to expand horizon to next-gen products, applications and technology.
• Familiar with product deployments within a global banking environment.
• Willing to work some irregular hours based on the needs of global operating model and the location of clients.
• Understanding in Automation (Python, Ansible, YAML, REST API, XML and JSON).
• Communicate with business partners at an enterprise level; interfacing with internal business representatives and information security partners.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to identify gaps, challenge others with positive intent, and drive debate towards identification and remediation of underlying risks.
• Knowledge of regulatory risk management in Technology and Information Security domains preferred.
• ITIL processes knowledge: Change Management, Incident Management, Request Management, and Problem Management
• At least one professional level certification in Network Security or Networks such as CCIE or CCNP (R&S, DC, and SP), CISSP etc is desirable.
• Educated to degree level in IT/Engineering field.

What you can expect

APAC Network Data team is responsible for end to end engineering and deployment of network infrastructure services within Bank of America.
The candidate will lead a region team overseeing data networks engineering & deployment projects focused on HFT Networks, Sustained Engineering Efforts, Life Cycle Management, and Vulnerability management.
Subject matter expert in Data Networking technologies and provide leadership and strategic/tactical direction related to the successful deployment network projects.

What you will do

• Subject matter experts in Network Services technologies and provide leadership and strategic/tactical direction related to the successful deployment network projects.
• Responsible for hands-on implementation, configuration of engineering and deployment of new services into production.
• Work with support teams, lines of business and 3rd parties that BofA connect to in order to build end-to-end solutions that balance business, security, availability and resiliency requirements.
• Eliciting, analyzing and documenting technical application and service requirements.
• Maintain designs patterns and provide feedback into architectural standards.
• Active participation in the change management process.
• Manage stakeholder requirements across projects and ad-hoc consulting.
• 3rd level escalation for troubleshooting issues on the production network.
• Identifying and managing the mitigation of risks within the environment.
• Ensuring documentation is updated to reflect new additions to or modifications in the environment and handed into Operations successfully.
• Collaborate with global engineering domain leads and operations teams from service design through operations transition process for new services.
• Support activities related to Audit, Compliance Reviews & Regulatory Exams.
• Review of all capacity metrics to ensure availability of all services.
• Facilitate meetings among all stakeholders/ vendors regularly and produce status update reports periodically.

About Bank of America

Our purpose as a firm is to make financial lives better, through the power of every connection. Across the world, we partner with leading corporate and institutional investors through our offices in more than 35 countries. In the U.S. alone, we serve almost all of the Fortune 500 companies and approximately 67 million consumer and small-business clients. We provide a full suite of financial products and services, from banking and investments to asset and risk management. We cover a broad range of asset classes, making us a global leader in corporate and investment banking, sales and trading.

Connecting Asia Pacific to the world

Our Asia Pacific team is spread across 19 cities in 12 markets. We are focused on connecting Asia to the world and the world to Asia, using our global expertise to ensure success is shared between us, our clients and our communities. Our regional footprint covers 12 currencies, more than a dozen languages and five time zones, placing us firmly among the region's leading financial services companies.