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**Job Description:** 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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! **Job Description:** This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. The Data Scientist position is a critical role within RAD, responsible for the ongoing support, enhancement, governance, and strategic evolution of the Persona Model and related data science initiatives. This role serves as the primary subject matter expert for Persona Model operations, maintaining end-to-end ownership of model processes, dependencies, retraining activities, performance monitoring, and compliance with Model Risk Management (MRM) governance requirements. The position plays a key role in advancing enterprise device access strategies by partnering across teams to align Persona Model capabilities with future initiatives, including HVD 2.0 and MacBook adoption programs. Additionally, the role is responsible for leading complex data engineering and analytics efforts, including the migration of Erica for Employees (E4E) data from SQL-based platforms to the Hadoop environment. The successful candidate must possess deep technical expertise in data science, machine learning model lifecycle management, data architecture, and governance processes. Given the highly specialized nature of the work and the significant institutional knowledge required to support the Persona Model and E4E initiatives, this position is essential to ensuring operational continuity, reducing key-person risk, and enabling the successful delivery of strategic business and technology objectives across RAD, CAS, and related partner organizations. **Responsibilities:** * Provides critical analytical, modeling, and data governance support across multiple initiatives. * Owns the Persona Model, demonstrating deep end‑to‑end understanding of model design, data inputs, validation, deployment, and monitoring processes. * Applies comprehensive knowledge of MRM governance standards and procedures, ensuring all modeling updates adhere to enterprise risk and compliance expectations. * Leads efforts to enhance and modify the Persona Model to support emerging device‑access initiatives. * Acts as the technical lead for the transition of Erica for Employees (E4E) data from SQL to the Hadoop environment. * Provides continuity for highly specialized, non‑transferable institutional knowledge that required over a year of ramp‑up time and cannot be replicated quickly by new personnel. * Ensures RAD maintains the modeling, data, and technical expertise necessary to implement upcoming changes, support ongoing model governance, and respond to evolving business needs. * Delivers ongoing production support, enhancements, and troubleshooting for mission‑critical data science workflows and proprietary systems relied upon by multiple teams. **Required Qualifications:** * Advanced experience with the design and development of reports in Tableau and Power BI experience * Advanced experience with data modeling and relational databases * Advanced experience in using tools such as SQL/ SSIS/ Hadoop/ Oracle or Teradata * Advanced experience with SQL stored procedures * Automation * Stakeholder Management * Technical Strategy Development * Business Acumen * Risk Management * Solution Design * Agile Practices * Analytical Thinking * Collaboration **Desired Qualifications:** * Proactively identify and interpret results in effort to communicate issues, risks, blockers to assignments and escalate.  * Collaborate with business contacts to understand data needs. * Ability to manage a technical roadmap to align priorities and collaborate with other technical teams resulting in the best possible outcome.  **Skills:** * Analytical Thinking * Architecture * Result Orientation * Solution Design * Technical Strategy Development * Application Development * Collaboration * Data Management * DevOps Practices * Risk Management * Agile Practices * Automation * Influence * Solution Delivery Process * Test Engineering **Shift:** 1st shift (United States of America) **Hours Per Week:**  40