Software Engineering Director (Platform Engineering)

U.S. Bank
Denver, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 307K

Job location

Denver, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Agile Methodologies
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
User Authentication
Automation of Tests
Azure
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Security
Cloud Engineering
Continuous Integration
DevOps
OAuth
OpenID
Scrum
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
Systems Integration
Web Platforms
Enterprise Software Applications
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Event Driven Architecture
Kubernetes
Cloud Migration
REST
Terraform
Devsecops
Api Management
Docker
Microservices

Job description

  • 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

Software Engineering Director exhibits a mix of technical acumen, strategy and vision, along with the ability to cultivate and grow technical talent. An advanced technologist enabling strong coding practices and solid design decisions. Builds meaningful relationships and effectively partners to remove organizational obstacles and guide cross-team strategic efforts. Acts as agile/product champion by enabling product teams and partnering with other leaders to drive empowerment, autonomy, engineering momentum, and business value. Fosters a culture of empowerment, engineering excellence, and growth., 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 Preferred Skills/Experience
  • 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 & conditions

Lead and grow a platform engineering team to deliver cloud-native underwriting capabilities. Drive modernization roadmaps, ensure resilient API/microservices platforms, enforce DevSecOps/SRE practices, partner cross-functionally, and manage hiring, performance, and platform reliability. The summary above was generated by AI

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One., 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:

  • 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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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.

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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.

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