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Job Description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for our Financial Crimes – KYC (know your customer) team with exceptional design, development and engineering leadership experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives.

The Software Engineering Manager will lead a team in the support and building of the Unified KYC Platform.

The Software Engineering Manager will focus on technological solution delivery by guiding and inspiring excellent coding practices and solid software design decisions among your team. The candidate will be responsible for growing and mentoring engineers as it relates to technical skills and career development as well as assisting with cross-team strategic efforts, influencing decisions to achieve efficient delivery of business value.

The overall team is a combination of employees, onsite and offshore consultants. This position will include application design, development oversight, and coordination with other groups within the bank to deliver the overall solution. You will own release schedules in our fast-paced environment, and work closely with software engineers, automation engineers, product managers and dependent application teams to get high-quality products and new features built, tested, and released on time. You will coordinate lots of fast-changing, moving parts and still get them to come together as a product. You'll need excellent communication skills to be the go-to person for all questions about release schedules, quality and progress updates. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years of relevant technical experience
• 5+ years of leading a software engineering team
• 10+ years of experience as a Java Full stack developer

Required Skills/Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in REST API & Springboot design and development
• 5+ years of leading high-performance team, driving onshore/offshore development activities and delivery of complex enterprise systems
• Experience in Git, Jira, Jenkins
• Experience in microservices design and development
• Experience in agile methodology, and SCRUM
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams and managing cross-functional initiatives
• Good communication and collaboration skills to interact with internal and external partners
• Advanced knowledge of information systems technology and software development processes and tools, especially industry specific applications
• Strong analytical, tactical planning and leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate with all parties involved in the product team (engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors, customers, etc.)
• Demonstrated management, leadership and interpersonal skills

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Experience in Apigee, Istio, Kubernetes, Kafka, Azure and AWS preferred
• Experience deploying and managing applications in cloud environments preferred
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of business strategy and how the technical and engineering strategy aligns with this

Be a part of transformational change where integrity matters, success inspires, and great teams collaborate and innovate. As the fifth-largest bank in the United States, we’re one of the country's most respected, innovative, ethical and successful financial institutions. We’re looking for people who want more than just a job – they want to make a difference! U.S. Bank is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Financial Crimes Technology team, supporting our Customer Sanctions Screening ecosystem.

The Software Engineer will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best-in-class software experiences. The Software Engineer supports technology that is highly visible and key to the U.S. Bank Enterprise Financial Crimes compliance program. This candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus on software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of relevant experience

Required Skills/Experience:

• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills including the ability to troubleshoot application errors and debug code in production environments
• 3+ years’ experience with .Net Core/C# web applications and web services
• 3+ years’ experience working with MS SQL Server relational databases
• 3+ years’ experience with MS Azure Cloud
• 3+ years’ experience providing technical support for Enterprise-wide applications
• 3+ years’ experience with DevOps and Monitoring tools (Jenkins, Git, AppDynamics, Splunk, Datadog, and PowerShell)

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
• Fundamental understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Ability to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers
• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills including the ability to troubleshoot application errors and debug code in production environments

Location Expectation (Hybrid/flexible schedule):
The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $133,365.00 - $156,900.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.