Lead Cassandra Technologist

at  US Bank National Association

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Be a part of transformational change where integrity matters, success inspires and great teams collaborate and innovate. As the fifth-largest bank in the United States, we’re one of the country’s most respected, innovative, ethical and successful financial institutions. We’re looking for people who want more than just a job – they want to make a difference! U.S. Bank is seeking a Lead Software Engineer who will contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives in our digital transformation journey.
This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best-in-class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Six to eight years of relevant experience

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Extensive knowledge on Cassandra (Datastax Cassandra) including performance tuning
• Knowledge of Unix operating systems and commands
• Experience working with Infrastructure as A code (IAAC) using Terraform
• Proficiency in Ansible or similar configuration management tools
• Scripting experience in Python, or similar programming languages
• Cloud automation experience with Azure or other cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Good Knowledge on CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab and Jenkins
• Automation first mindset
• Building security and compliance as a step in E2E automation
• Experience working in secure, compliant needs for mission critical systems in a cloud environment.
• Experience building and operating at scale
• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
• Has technical expertise and leadership skills to resolve issues, ensure product goals are met, and serve as a mentor to coach and support junior engineers
• Thorough understanding of the team’s domain, how work in this domain relates to the team’s objectives and deliverables and how it contributes to overall business strategy and how technical strategy maps to this
• Ability to collaborate on all aspects of product development
• Technically proficient and able to define and fulfill solutions requirements for end user
• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers
• Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices
• Effective communication, presentation, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proven collaboration and influencing skills
  If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

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 (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

• 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 la