Lead Platform Engineer

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 Software Engineer who will contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives in our digital transformation journey.

Lead the design, development, and operational excellence of our enterprise Dataflow platform — a self-service data pipeline orchestration system built on Apache Airflow, Spark, and Flink running on Azure Kubernetes Service. You'll own the platform end-to-end: from the React UI and Node.js API layer through DAG generation, Spark/Flink job execution, and ADLS landing zones

• Architect and evolve the Dataflow platform (Airflow 3.x, Spark Kubernetes Operator , Flink Kubernetes Operator )
• Lead a team of 3-5 engineers; mentor, review code, set technical direction
• Design and implement CDC streaming pipelines (Flink) and batch ELT pipelines (Spark)
• Own Kubernetes deployment patterns — Helm charts, pod templates, resource tuning on AKS
• Build and maintain the self-service UI (React/Vite) and API server (Node.js/Express)
• Drive reliability: monitoring, alerting, SLA enforcement, auto-retry, and incident response
• Collaborate with platform teams on networking (Istio egress), secrets (Vault), storage (ADLS Gen2)
• Manage CI/CD pipelines (Git Lab) and container image builds for Airflow/Spark/Flink
• Define data quality frameworks (Great Expectations, custom DQ rules)

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

• 7+ years in data engineering; 2+ years in a lead/senior role
• Deep expertise in Apache Airflow (DAG authoring, custom operators, Kubernetes Executor)
• Production experience with Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala) and/or Apache Flink
• Strong Kubernetes skills (Helm, CRDs, pod lifecycle, resource management)
• Azure ecosystem: ADLS Gen2, AKS, ACR, Azure AD/Entra
• Proficiency in Python and SQL; working knowledge of JavaScript/Type Script (React, Node.js)
• Experience with Git Lab CI/CD or equivalent
• Excellent communicator who can translate business requirements into platform capabilities

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

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.

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

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race,…