Chief Engineer at U.S. Bank in Minneapolis, MN

At U.S. Bank, we're passionate about helping customers and the communities where we live and work. The fifth-largest bank in the United States, we’re one of the country's most respected, innovative and successful financial institutions. U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors.

Job Description

U.S. Bank is seeking a motivated Chief Engineer with strong leadership abilities to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives. Provides a combination of technical and business leadership while being the primary trusted and capable owner of one or more high priority, high visibility, complex focused initiatives that typically cross multiple technology and business line areas.

You will help a large product portfolio with Technology Modernization initiatives like API, Microservices, and Cloud Enablement Migration. You may have a small number of direct reports (e.g., an architect, systems analyst, etc.) and provide guidance to a larger community including affected systems, program management, and test leadership. Responsibilities include:

- Develop solutions in accordance with US Bank technology principals and partner with various shared services and architecture teams to align the solutions to the latest technical standards.

- Accountable for solution design and delivery executed by Technology & Operations Services (TOS), the business line and vendor partners.

- Act as an interface with TOS and business partners, vendors and subject matter experts (SMEs) for solution design and delivery; provide counsel to the business line during ideation stages.

- Proactively communicate statuses, issues, risks and mitigation to senior leadership; serve as a primary project issue escalation point.

- Champion the refresh of bank standards and methods using learnings from program delivery, SMEs and industry changes.

- Drives alignment and influences vendor partner product strategy.

- Develops and communicates program visons and roadmaps.

- Advises on solution definition, planning and high-level design.

- Appropriately governs program technology and engineering dimensions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, MIS, engineering, computer science, mathematics, any science, or equivalent work experience
• Eight or more years of experience in delivering software-based solutions

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience in leading technology transformation to Cloud, API and Microservice Architecture
• Broad knowledge of industry best practices in modern development and hosting models for on-prem and public cloud.
• Ability to influence change without authority by building consensus and relationships with business and technology leaders.
• Experience with cloud native solutions and moving legacy applications to cloud native architecture.
• Advanced knowledge of a range of delivery processes such as: planning, development, project management, migration, testing, architecture, security, vendor management, risk and system performance management
• Thorough understanding of multiple development methods with the ability to select the most appropriate approach with little to no consultation
• Strong technology architecture skills, currency with technology industry, demonstrated success in delivering complex software based solutions
• Well-developed leadership abilities and strategic management skills
• Strong analytical, decision-making and problem-solving skills
• Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills
• Master’s degree and related experience may be sufficient if missing other required basic qualification areas

Benefits:

Take care of yourself and your family with U.S. Bank employee benefits. We know that healthy employees are happy employees, and we believe that work/life balance should be easy to achieve. That's why we share the cost of benefits and offer a variety of programs, resources and support you need to bring your full self to work and stay present and committed to the people who matter most - your family.