Senior Chief Engineer - Storage & VM

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 - SENIOR CHIEF ENGINEER - STORAGE & VM

U.S. Bank is seeking a highly motivated Senior Chief Engineer who will spearhead a technical team driving innovation and excellence within our organization, with a keen focus on Storage and Virtual Machines. Will provide a combination of technical and business leadership while being the primary trusted and capable owner of one or more high priority, high visibility, complex focused initiatives that typically cross multiple technology and business line areas. Will have some direct reports (e.g., an architect, systems analyst, etc.) and provide guidance to a larger community including affected systems, program management, and test leadership.

Responsibilities include:

• Directly lead a small, dynamic team to architect, roadmap, plan, and resource manage software-defined infrastructure for Compute and Storage.
• Lead and co-develop the platform strategy with technology-specific Chief Engineers for SAN, NAS, Hypervisor, and Backups.
• Accountable for solution design and delivery executed by Technology, Business Line, and Vendor partners.
• Partner with Cloud hosting and development pipeline teams to integrate, where feasible, to create a common experience and ease portability.
• Oversee strategy and drive technological advancements for Virtualization, SAN, NAS, and Backup technology to simplify management, lower costs, and improve reliability and performance.
• Govern program technology and engineering dimensions, advising on solution definition, planning, and high-level design.
• Drive technological advancements in storage and virtual machine domains and influence vendor partner product strategy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technology initiatives with business goals and act as an interface with Technology, Business Line, and Vendor subject matter experts for solution design and delivery, providing counsel during ideation stages.
• Proactively communicate issues, risks, mitigations, and other status to senior leadership and serve as the primary escalation point for project issues.
• Champion refresh activities and adherence to bank standards and methods using learnings from program delivery, SMEs, and industry best practices.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in business, MIS, engineering, computer science, mathematics, any science, or equivalent work experience
• 10 or more years of experience in delivering Storage, Virtualization and other software-based solutions is required

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Expertise in hybrid cloud and private cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of Virtualization, SAN, NAS, and Backup technologies.
• Experience working with VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, PowerMax, DataDomain, Pure, Cohesity, Netapp, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Extensive knowledge of delivery processes such as planning, development, project management, migration, testing, architecture, security, vendor management, risk, and system performance management.
• Proven experience in leading teams and managing technology projects.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience developing positive outcomes across teams.
• Strong background in strategy development, architectural design, and capacity planning.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced technical understanding of multiple solutions and methods.
• Strong technology architecture skills and currency with the technology industry.
• Well-developed leadership abilities and strategic management skills.

Responsibilities include:

• Directly lead a small, dynamic team to architect, roadmap, plan, and resource manage software-defined infrastructure for Compute and Storage.
• Lead and co-develop the platform strategy with technology-specific Chief Engineers for SAN, NAS, Hypervisor, and Backups.
• Accountable for solution design and delivery executed by Technology, Business Line, and Vendor partners.
• Partner with Cloud hosting and development pipeline teams to integrate, where feasible, to create a common experience and ease portability.
• Oversee strategy and drive technological advancements for Virtualization, SAN, NAS, and Backup technology to simplify management, lower costs, and improve reliability and performance.
• Govern program technology and engineering dimensions, advising on solution definition, planning, and high-level design.
• Drive technological advancements in storage and virtual machine domains and influence vendor partner product strategy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technology initiatives with business goals and act as an interface with Technology, Business Line, and Vendor subject matter experts for solution design and delivery, providing counsel during ideation stages.
• Proactively communicate issues, risks, mitigations, and other status to senior leadership and serve as the primary escalation point for project issues.
• Champion refresh activities and adherence to bank standards and methods using learnings from program delivery, SMEs, and industry best practices

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