Lead MLP Software 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 part of a transformational journey where integrity, innovation, and collaboration drive meaningful impact. We are building a cutting‑edge Machine Learning Platform (MLP) to support AML (Anti‑Money Laundering) initiatives, enabling scalable model inferencing using open‑source technologies and Kubernetes. We seek a strong technical leader who is passionate about engineering excellence, agile delivery, and driving platform adoption across business teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, operate, and maintain high‑quality software products and platform capabilities

• Take full‑stack ownership by writing production‑ready, testable, maintainable code

• Build and evolve an ML Platform supporting AML model inferencing using open‑source tools, AKS/Kubernetes, and modern cloud architectures

• Ensure optimal design aligned with architectural best practices—scalability, performance, reliability, and security

• Diagnose failures, propose design improvements, and drive operational excellence across the platform

• Lead onboarding efforts for business teams adopting inferencing workloads on the platform

• Conduct peer code reviews and promote engineering standards, DevOps practices, and compliance requirements

• Collaborate cross‑functionally with product owners, scrum masters, engineers, and external partners

• Champion continuous improvement, innovation, and emerging technology adoption to advance the bank’s digital transformation

• Anticipate and communicate risks, blockers, and delivery impacts early to drive efficient execution

• Address fintech‑related challenges including compliance, regulatory needs, and data governance in partnership with AML business teams

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

• 6+years of hands‑on software engineering experience

Required Skills/Experience

• Strong expertise with ML platform tooling, model inferencing frameworks, AKS/Kubernetes, and open‑source technologies

• Proficiency in algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and modern cloud‑native development approaches

• Expertise with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)

• Exposure to Data Science concepts, model training and deployment processes

• Hands on experience with DevOps/MLOps practices

• Previous experience leading a team of engineers to take a project from inception to delivery working in a complex environment, collaborating with multiple enterprise teams

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Deep experience with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles

• Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers, providing both technical and leadership support

• Strong understanding of how platform work ties to business strategy, AML use cases, and enterprise technology goals

• Excellent communication, analytical thinking, and problem‑solving skills; ability to influence stakeholders across the organization

• Experience engaging with compliance, risk, data governance, or regulated environments (preferred but not required)

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.

Benefits: 

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