Cloud Principal Engineer

U.S. Bank • Hopkins, MN

1d • $149,515 - $175,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

U.S. Bank is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to join our Enterprise Cloud Migration team. In this role, the Principal Cloud Engineer will provide technical leadership for enterprise-scale cloud migration initiatives and partner closely with application teams, cloud platform teams, enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, risk/compliance, program leadership, and third-party partners to define migration solutions, resolve technical challenges, and ensure successful delivery of applications into the enterprise AWS environment. The role will help drive cloud adoption, modernization, engineering excellence, and scalable delivery practices while aligning technology decisions with business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Ten or more years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading enterprise cloud migration and solutioning initiatives across AWS or other public cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, cloud migration patterns, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational readiness.
• Proven ability to collaborate with application teams, architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and program stakeholders.
• Experience working with third-party partners, system integrators, or managed service providers in large-scale technology delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise system architecture, performance optimization, and engineering best practices in agile environments.
• Ability to assess technical options, identify risks and dependencies, and recommend practical solutions aligned to business objectives.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
• Proven collaboration and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and drive successful technology outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provides high-level architectural guidance and assists teams in aligning architecture to business requirements. Works across the organization to promote the use of relevant design patterns and guide teams in preparing for future business and technology needs.
• Fosters an architectural culture that enables iterative development, autonomous delivery, and future scalability. Guides teams in making design decisions that minimize the cost and complexity of future changes.
• Sets the direction of the architectural roadmap, establishes engineering strategic objectives, and evaluates return on investment for technology initiatives to support long-term business goals.
• Partners with application teams to assess migration readiness, understand application architectures, identify dependencies, and recommend migration approaches aligned with business, security, operational, and technology requirements.
• Leads migration discovery and solutioning activities, evaluating application architectures, migration patterns, modernization opportunities, risks, and dependencies. Provides technical recommendations that balance business objectives, delivery timelines, cost, risk, and long-term maintainability.
• Coaches the engineering organization on systematic troubleshooting and debugging practices. Leads incident response efforts as needed and establishes tools, processes, and standards that improve operational effectiveness.
• Promotes a culture of engineering quality through effective code reviews, release readiness practices, and continuous improvement, ensuring solutions are aligned with user and business needs.
• Drives organizational testing strategy, leveraging quality metrics to identify gaps and recommending solutions aligned with accepted testing frameworks and industry best practices.
• Maintains broad technology knowledge with deep expertise in key areas to support decision-making, coaching, mentoring, and technical leadership across teams.
• Works closely with security teams to establish and evolve security strategy, promote security-first principles, and ensure solutions align with enterprise security and compliance standards.
• Takes ownership of technical decisions by helping teams drive clarity, align to enterprise goals, and establish accountability for successful outcomes.
• Defines and improves engineering delivery processes, promotes efficient execution methodologies, and drives a culture of delivering technology solutions with minimal disruption to production environments.
• Responsible for executing the cloud migration roadmap on time and within budget while ensuring security, compliance, operational readiness, and alignment with enterprise standards. Partners with application teams, enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, risk/compliance, program leadership, and third-party delivery partners to define migration solutions, manage dependencies, resolve technical blockers, and drive successful migration outcomes.
• Ensures expectations are aligned across internal and external stakeholders. Identifies cross-functional dependencies, proactively mitigates risks, resolves issues before they impact delivery, and implements preventative measures to avoid recurrence.
• Works across the organization to foster a culture of prioritization, urgency, and sound decision-making. Coaches teams on trade-offs, prioritization, technical debt management, and the identification and mitigation of technical and business risks.
• Collaborates effectively across business, technology, and external partner organizations, influencing decisions and driving alignment to achieve successful delivery outcomes.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal