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# Software Engineering Director 2 - Developer Experience

- **Company:** U.S. Bank, National Association
- **Location:** Cincinnati, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $164,390.0 - $193,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Software Engineering, Software Organization
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://usbank.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/US_Bank_Careers/job/Cincinnati-OH/Software-Engineering-Director-2---Developer-Experience_2026-0026348

## About the Role

Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

 - 10 or more years of relevant software engineering experience
 - Six or more years of experience leading multiple software engineering teams

Preferred Skills/Experience

 * Proven experience delivering software and platform capabilities within a large Financial Services organization.
 * Demonstrated experience leading enterprise developer platform, DevOps, platform engineering, or Developer Experience organizations.
 * Strong understanding of modern software development practices, cloud-native architectures, and software delivery platforms.
 * Experience with Internal Developer Portals, including Backstage or comparable developer platform technologies.
 * Experience implementing and scaling inner sourcing models and engineering community engagement.
 * Experience partnering with senior executives and influencing enterprise-wide technology strategy.
 * Strong understanding of cloud engineering and modern platform architectures.
 * Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale organizational and technology transformation initiatives.

## Description

Software Engineering Director exhibits a mix of technical acumen, strategy and vision, along with the ability to cultivate and grow technical talent. Responsible for designing, developing, implementing and testing a set of technical products in response to an external or internal need. Manager is an advanced technologist enabling strong coding practices and solid design decisions. Builds meaningful relationships with relevant stakeholders 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.


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