Finance Technology Transformation Director

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

The Finance Technology Transformation Director will build, develop and lead Treasury credit valuation and cloud data analytics engineering teams. Collaborate with Finance and Technology leaders to advance Finance application modernization, cloud data marketplace strategy, GenAI and DevOps automation. Cultivates meaningful relationships with relevant stakeholders and effectively partners to remove organizational obstacles and guide cross-team strategic efforts. Acts as agile/product champion by enabling product teams and partnering with other leaders to drive empowerment, autonomy, engineering momentum, and business value. Fosters a culture of empowerment, engineering excellence, and growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Talent Development: Prioritize the identification, retention, and development of data engineering teams specializing in Treasury credit valuation and cloud technologies (Numerix, AWS, Snowflake). Utilize your engineering leadership to drive redesign, innovation, and modernization of core technology platforms.

• Finance and Treasury Knowledge: This role requires a deep understanding of Finance and Treasury functions. This includes managing financial operations, optimizing treasury balance sheet optimization and risk management processes, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
• Finance Executive Partnership: You will be responsible for collaborating closely with Finance executives in Treasury, Accounting Operations and Data Office. This involves advising on technological trends, expense management, identifying opportunities for improvement, and ensuring that technology initiatives align with the overall business goals of the Finance division.
• Key Cloud and Data Initiatives: Collaborate with leaders to design and deliver data initiatives aimed at enhancing the Finance department's operations. This includes implementing cloud solutions for scalability and flexibility, developing reusable components, utilizing data analytics for insights and decision-making, and ensuring data security and compliance.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Eight or more years of relevant software engineering experience
- Five or more years of experience leading a software engineering team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, IT, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

• 15+ years of experience in Finance and Treasury technology platforms, including treasury balance sheet optimization, back-office and vendor modelling and analytics tools.
• Innovative strategist focused on constant improvement including business intelligence tools, data architecture, cloud data management (AWS/Azure), and emerging data marketplaces such as Snowflake and similar tools.
• Executive level vendor relationship management with strategic vendors like Numerix, Snowflake, AWS, QRM, Workday and others.
• Experience in technology control, regulatory compliance, and audit management.
• Communication, preparation, negotiation, and formulation of technology strategies at the executive level, engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

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 (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional te