Data Analyst/Engineer

Job Description:
Job Title: Data Analyst/Engineer
Corporate Title:   Up to Assistant Vice President
Location:   Chester

Company Overview:

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.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Location Overview:

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

Role Description:

Use your technical expertise to help strengthen cyber resilience at enterprise scale.
We’re looking for a technically strong Business Systems Analyst who enjoys getting hands-on with technology, solving complex problems and turning business challenges into effective, automated solutions.
You’ll play a key role in improving security compliance, reducing exposure to cyber threats and transforming how patching and vulnerability remediation are managed across the enterprise. Combining business analysis with hands-on scripting and automation, you’ll help improve reporting, simplify processes and deliver solutions that strengthen operational resilience and technology risk management.
This is an opportunity to work across cyber security, automation, data and technology, with the scope to influence solutions from initial concept through to implementation.

Responsibilities:

Working as a key link between the Patching and Currency team and its stakeholders, you’ll translate complex business and technology challenges into practical solutions.
You’ll:

- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand challenges and define clear requirements.

- Analyse complex problems and identify opportunities for automation, simplification and stronger controls.

- Use your scripting and technical expertise to help develop and improve automated solutions.

- Translate requirements into clear user stories, technical stories and actionable deliverables for Agile teams.

- Support solutions throughout the delivery lifecycle, from analysis and design through testing and implementation.

- Use data and technology to improve reporting, accuracy and decision-making.

- Provide technical and subject-matter expertise to help shape requirements and solution decisions.

- Use modern capabilities, including GenAI, to improve analysis, problem-solving and delivery effectiveness.

What we’re looking for:

You’ll be a technically capable Business Systems Analyst who can combine strong stakeholder and analytical skills with genuine hands-on development experience.

Essential technical experience

Current, independent, hands-on development experience using Microsoft SQL Server, Python and/or Java scripting is essential for this role.
You should be currently using Python and/or Java independently to:

- Develop and maintain scripts.

- Build or improve automation.

- Troubleshoot technical issues.

- Analyse problems and develop effective solutions.

We’re looking for current practical development capability, rather than previous exposure or theoretical knowledge.

Experience with some of the following technologies would also be valuable:

- Microsoft SQL Server

- Kafka

- AutoSys

- Tableau

- Ansible

- Splunk

- Jira

- ServiceNow

Skills that will help you’ll also bring:

- Experience working as a Business Systems Analyst within an Agile technology environment.

- Knowledge of Linux and Windows server environments.

- Strong requirements gathering and analysis skills.

- Experience writing user stories and technical stories.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

UK

- Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner

- Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons

- 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum

- The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.

- Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

- Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

- Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution

- Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.