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U.S. Bank

Software Engineering Director – Platform Engineering

U.S. Bank

Software Engineering Director leading engineering for Underwriting/ACAPS capabilities at U.S. Bank.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeAtlanta • Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSAzureCloudDockerKubernetesMicroservicesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead and develop a team of software engineers delivering Underwriting/ACAPS capabilities.
  • Drive execution of engineering modernization roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business priorities, customer needs, and enterprise technology strategies with clear business outcomes.
  • Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and Operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native solutions.
  • Establish and enforce engineering best practices including Agile delivery, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, and SRE principles.
  • Oversee API platform development, integration services, microservices architecture, and partner ecosystem connectivity.
  • Monitor platform performance, availability, reliability, and operational excellence while driving continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Manage hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and career development for engineering talent.
  • Lead technology modernization efforts focused on cloud adoption, digital transformation, automation, and engineering efficiency.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
  • Eight or more years of relevant software engineering experience
  • Five or more years of experience leading a software engineering team
  • Strong software engineering experience with 5+ years leading engineering teams in banking, fintech, payments, or digital platforms.
  • Strong experience building and managing large-scale Digital Banking platforms.
  • Hands-on expertise with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Proven experience delivering microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and high-volume transaction processing systems.
  • Deep knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and platform observability tools.
  • Strong understanding of financial services security, authentication, OAuth/OIDC, API governance, risk controls, and regulatory compliance.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams using Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or product-centric delivery models.
  • Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills with the ability to influence technical and business decisions.
  • Experience Building AI driven decision automation while delivering efficiencies with a clear business outcome.

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
Software EngineeringDigital Banking PlatformsAPI DevelopmentEvent-Driven ArchitecturesInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Automated TestingPerformance MonitoringRisk ControlsDecision Automation
Soft Skills
Executive CommunicationStakeholder ManagementLeadershipInfluencing Technical DecisionsCoaching and Mentoring