Engineering Director - Cloud Database Platforms

U.S. Bank • Brookfield, WI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. We are building the next generation of Cloud Database platforms at U.S. Bank. This leader will define standards, drive architecture, and lead a team that delivers scalable, high-performing, and resilient database services across the enterprise. This is about building, transforming, and raising the standard.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other related field
• Three or more years of management experience

Nice To Haves

• Senior leadership experience in cloud database engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure at enterprise scale
• Expertise in cloud database technologies across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments
• Proven ability to define enterprise architecture standards and drive adoption across multiple teams
• Strong background in high‑availability, performance optimization, resiliency, and disaster recovery for mission‑critical systems
• Experience leading automation‑first platforms using IaC, CI/CD, and self‑service models
• Track record of building, coaching, and scaling high‑performing engineering teams with strong accountability
• Ability to operate at both deep technical and enterprise strategic levels, translating vision into execution
• Experience working in regulated or high‑risk environments with strong security, compliance, and governance requirements

Responsibilities

• Set enterprise standards for cloud database platforms, ensuring consistency in architecture, security, performance, and reliability across the bank
• Own database solution design across the enterprise; make clear architectural decisions and partner closely with application and platform teams
• Build and lead a high‑performance engineering organization, setting clear expectations, driving accountability, and developing strong technical leaders
• Simplify consumption of database platforms through standard patterns, self‑service tooling, automation, and documentation
• Drive platform performance and efficiency, balancing scalability, resiliency, and cost optimization across cloud environments
• Lead large‑scale automation efforts across provisioning, patching, scaling, and operations to eliminate manual work
• Own reliability and operational excellence, including availability, incident response, recovery, and continuous improvement
• Raise the bar across the enterprise, driving transformation rather than maintenance and delivering measurable 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: Director