Lead Data Engineer

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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.

• Develop and maintain data pipelines to ingest, process, and store financial data from internal and external sources.
• Integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple systems such as accounting software, trading platforms, financial databases, and market feeds.
• Build and optimize relational and non-relational databases (e.g., SQL, No
  
  SQL) to store financial data.
• Ensure efficient querying and retrieval of financial data to support reporting and analytics.
• Implement data quality checks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
• Establish and enforce data governance policies to ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards (GDPR, SOX).
• Work with data scientists, financial analysts, and business intelligence teams to understand data needs and ensure data is accessible and usable for analysis.
• Collaborate with software engineers and IT teams to ensure seamless integration with other business systems.
• Automate repetitive data processing tasks to improve operational efficiency.
• Continuously monitor and improve the performance of data pipelines and systems to handle large volumes of financial data.
• Provide financial data to support the generation of reports, dashboards, and other visualizations.
• Work with finance teams to ensure the data is structured for effective analysis and decision-making.
• Ensure financial data is stored securely, adhering to relevant security and privacy standards.
• Monitor and implement appropriate access controls to sensitive financial information.
• Troubleshoot issues related to data pipelines, databases, and data integrity.
• Provide support for resolving data-related issues in financial applications or reporting systems.
• Manage the design, development, maintenance, upkeep, safety, and integrity of databases.
• Conduct audits and initiate preventative and corrective actions.
• Manage coordination and facilitate design implementation and control of data management concepts and techniques.
• Approve and maintain database analyses and development policies, standards, and procedures.
• Allocate appropriate database resources to ensure projects are completed within committed time and budget.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least 7 years experience with tools, facilities, and techniques for managing and administering data.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, SQL, or Scala.

• Application development tools.
• Information management.
• Data warehousing.
• Data movement tools.
• Strong experience with on-prem and cloud data warehouse solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, RDS, Oracle, MS SQL).
• Familiarity with data pipeline tools (e.g., Apache Kafka, Airflow, ETL frameworks) and knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Relational databases.
• Dataset architecture and design best practices.

• 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 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

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.

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.