U.S. Bank

Senior Data Engineer, Data Innovation and Tools Rationalization

U.S. Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: MinneapolisIllinoisMinnesotaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $119,765 - $140,900 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Designing, building and owning next-generation data product engineering patterns on modern cloud platforms including Snowflake and Databricks.
  • Providing technical guidance and mentorship to other data engineers, promoting consistent engineering practices and high‑quality solutions.
  • Developing reusable engineering assets such as frameworks, build kits, CI/CD templates, and performance optimization approaches.
  • Partnering with Enablement and Execution teams to operationalize and scale data engineering patterns across delivery teams, serving as a technical point of reference for adoption and implementation.
  • Evaluating, testing, and experimenting with emerging data and AI tools, platforms, and services.
  • Participate in technical proofs of concept, comparing alternative solutions, and making data-driven recommendations for platform and tool rationalization.
  • Documenting project outcomes, transition plans, adoption guides, and solution usage scripts to support enterprise rollout.
  • Supporting platform modernization efforts through hands-on development, tuning, and optimization.
  • Collaborating with data product owners, architects, and platform teams to align engineering solutions with enterprise data strategy.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, data science, mathematics, or statistics.
  • 6 to 8+ years of statistical and/or analytical experience.
  • Typically, 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or platform engineering roles.
  • Deep understanding of financial institution/Banking concepts.
  • Strong understanding of modern data engineering concepts, including batch and streaming data processing, data modeling, and data product design.
  • Experience building scalable data solutions on cloud-based data platforms.
  • Familiarity with enterprise data ecosystems and shared platform models.
  • Ability to assess tradeoffs across tools, architectures, and implementation approaches.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on root cause analysis and optimization.
  • Proficiency with big data technologies (Spark, Airflow, Hadoop, Hive).
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake and Databricks, including performance tuning.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience building production-grade data pipelines.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code patterns for data platforms.
  • Familiarity with orchestration and workflow management tools.
  • Experience developing reusable libraries, templates, or internal frameworks.
  • Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP and cloud-native data services.
  • Understanding data quality, observability, and monitoring practices.
  • Familiarity with AI and ML tooling as it relates to data engineering and platform enablement is a plus.
Benefits
  • 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringanalytics engineeringplatform engineeringdata modelingdata product designbig data technologiesSQLPythonCI/CD pipelinescloud-native data services
Soft Skills
technical guidancementorshipanalytical skillsproblem-solvingroot cause analysiscollaborationcommunicationoptimizationtradeoff assessmentdocumentation