Data Architect (MS SQL Server & Oracle database)

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, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   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. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

Job Description

U.S. Bank is seeking a detail-oriented Data Architect with relational database and logical/physical database modeling experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design and builds relational database models and define data requirements to meet the business requirements.

• Develop strategies for data acquisitions, archive recovery, and implementation of databases.

• Write scripts and commands for data manipulation.

• Plan and conduct database unit and system tests, monitors results, and takes corrective action. Monitor and resolve database performance, database capacity, data integrity and replication issues. Assure integrity of data, software, and hardware; develops policies and procedures related to development and support of new and ongoing systems.

• Provide technical consulting to application development teams during application design and development for highly complex or critical projects.

• Ensure compliance with the organization's database standards.

• Assess database implementation procedures to ensure they comply with internal and external regulations.

• Oversee the migration of data from legacy systems to new solutions.

• Monitor the system performance by performing regular tests, troubleshooting, and integrating new features. 

• Recommend solutions to improve new and existing database systems.

• Offer support by responding to system problems in a timely manner.

Basic Qualifications

-Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
-At least 6 years experience with design, development and support of database management systems.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Strong knowledge of database structure systems and data modeling. 

• Hands on experience in Design and implement effective database solutions and models to store and retrieve company data.

• Experience in MS SQL Server database and Oracle database technologies is a big plus.

• Experience working on AWS Cloud database technologies is required.

• Demonstrated prior software development experience in Agile and Scrum

• Experience in Payment Services, Financial Services, or regulated domains is a big plus.

• Deep understanding of software development methodologies, including Agile and DevOps.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and thought leadership skills.

Location Expectations

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 o