Sr. Software Engineer (Technical Coach)

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

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 in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Essential Responsibilities:

Responsible for coaching teams to adopt and implement DevOps practices. This coaching will take place in a Dojo type environment, with individual teams, and/or with individuals. Acts as a change agent who helps set the vision, show the way, and provide thought leadership on removing impediments to DevOps success. Coaches and mentors sprint team individuals at either the team and/or program levels, including Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Technical Leads and executives to leverage DevOps principles, engineering practices and frameworks to deliver high value business capabilities. Helps to coach the team on product management, design thinking, engineering culture, Agile and DevOps. Serves as a subject matter expert on scaling DevOps development, embraces servant leadership, understands engineering practices and serves as a role model for the team to model DevOps behaviors and mindsets, which includes key mindset shifts in the journey to DevOps. Designs, develops, and facilitates training of DevOps practices to assigned teams. Performs evaluations, and reviews of processes and methodologies. Identifies strengths and continuous improvement recommendations of existing processes.  Understand and can coach on how DevOps, Agile and Product work together to create amazing products and cohesive teams.  Drives culture change through day to day to work with a focus on DevOps, Agile, and Product mindset, values and continuous improvement and keep the team focused on achieving product goals. 

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience

• Five to six years of relevant experience