Bank of America
Our apprentice programme starts in September 2026, you will join one of our Global Markets teams in a full-time role whilst studying for a three-year Digital Technology Degree.
You’ll spend most of your time working alongside experienced colleagues, learning relevant and valuable skills, contributing to exciting projects whilst being exposed to cutting-edge technology. For the remainder of your time, you’ll follow an established apprenticeship programme, graduating after three years with a Degree in Digital and Technology Solutions specialising in Software Engineering.
Apprentices evolve during the programme based on their career aspirations, and depending on how quickly their technical and soft skills develop. We encourage apprentices to take advantage of employee networks and all other resources made available to them to accelerate their career.
The Team
The Product Development team is part of the front office Global Equities Platform group and is responsible for partnering with clients, sales and trading teams, quants and technology to develop high-impact platform solutions that are used across the equity derivatives franchise. We are a diverse team of product managers, software engineers, and computer scientists, combining strong domain knowledge with entrepreneurial skills to assist in the efficiency and profitability of the business.
Some projects we are involved in include electronic trading and client connectivity, smart chatbots to automate trader workflows, risk recycling to assist hedging activities and the capture and analysis of large data sets to glean further business insights.
Successful apprentices will continuously relate what they are learning with their work at Bank of America, as they progress through their degree programme. The apprenticeship will support you in developing key elements of the role below.
Key Responsibilities
As an apprentice, you will:
- Utilise your programming skills to engineer quantitative and domain-specific solutions for the business.
- Be located with the team on the trading floor, working in person with our front office clients and partners across the franchise.
- Be responsible for the full software development lifecycle from gathering requirements through to implementation and delivery.
- Contribute ideas and innovations that could transform the way we trade and manage risk.
- Develop your understanding of financial products such as stocks, bonds, and ETFs, and learn how technology drives decision-making in global markets.
