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U.S. Bank

Senior Data Engineer

U.S. Bank

Senior Data Engineer contributing to U.S. Bank's digital transformation journey.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeHopkins • Minnesota, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $119,765 - $140,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSAzureCloudMS SQL Server.NETSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design, implement, and maintain logical and physical data structures within the MIR Data Layer
  • Build and evolve metadata-driven schemas supporting: Document metadata, Transaction and workflow state, Event based and audit data, Reporting and analytics use cases
  • Implement data solutions that support large-scale, concurrent workloads
  • Optimize schemas, indexes, and access patterns to improve throughput and latency
  • Leverage Memory-Optimized Tables (In-Memory OLTP) for performance-critical paths where appropriate, under architectural guidance
  • Implement and support event-driven data processing within the MIR Data Layer
  • Work with SQL Service Broker queues and services, including: Asynchronous processing, Status tracking and reconciliation, Retry and error-handling patterns
  • Help ensure event processing is idempotent, traceable, and operationally reliable
  • Build data structures that enable enterprise reporting and analytics without impacting transactional workloads
  • Support snapshotting and reporting-friendly schemas for downstream consumers
  • Assist in ensuring audit data is accurate, consistent, and compliant with regulatory expectations
  • Contribute to cloud-readiness efforts for the MIR Data Layer
  • Support migration and proof-of-concept work targeting: Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database / Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Help adapt data designs to managed-platform constraints while preserving performance and correctness
  • Participate in production readiness, stability, and incident resolution for the MIR Data Layer
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues, including: Performance degradation, Blocking, deadlocks, and resource contention, Event based or Service Broker processing failures
  • Partner closely with DBAs, SRE, and platform teams to improve monitoring and alerting, Support HA/DR and failover scenarios, Reduce repeat data-layer incidents
  • Participate in on-call rotations or escalation coverage as appropriate for a senior-level role
  • Ensure new data-layer implementations meet operability and supportability standards before release

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
  • 5 + years of relevant experience
  • Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server (SQL Server 2019/2022 preferred) in enterprise, high-volume environments
  • Proven ability to design and implement complex, high-performance relational data structures, including metadata-driven and workflow-centric schemas
  • Practical experience with SQL Service Broker, including queue usage and basic operational troubleshooting
  • Working knowledge of Memory-Optimized Tables (In-Memory OLTP) and associated performance and concurrency considerations
  • Medium-level experience with .NET / C#, specifically for: Data access and persistence patterns
  • Efficient database interaction from applications
  • Debugging data-access issues between application and database layers
  • Demonstrated ability to debug and resolve production data issues, including: Query performance bottlenecks, Blocking and deadlocks, Failures in asynchronous or event-driven processing
  • Experience supporting reporting and analytics sourced from transactional systems
  • Solid understanding of database operations and maintenance, including indexing, statistics, and capacity considerations
  • Exposure to cloud-managed SQL platforms (AWS RDS and/or Azure SQL) with awareness of differences from on-prem SQL Server.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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
Microsoft SQL ServerSQL Service BrokerMemory-Optimized Tables.NETC#data structuresmetadata-driven schemasevent-driven data processingdebuggingperformance optimization
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationoperational reliabilityincident resolutionattention to detailadaptabilityanalytical thinkingtime managementteamwork
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeSQL Server certification