Principal GenAI Engineer

U.S. Bank • Irving, TX

1d • Onsite

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. Job Description - Provides high-level architectural guidance and assists the team in aligning architecture to business requirements. Works across the organization to foster a culture of applying applicable and relevant design patterns, in accordance with the needs of the company and guides the teams in the organization in anticipation of future use cases. - Works across the organization to foster a culture of architecture that allows for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Guides teams in the organization in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes. - Sets the direction of the architectural roadmap. Determines the Return-on-Investment for specific engineering initiatives and determines appropriate levels of investment for given strategic horizons. Establishes engineering strategic objectives that drive architecture and technical approach. - Coaches the engineering organization on a debugging mindset with a view of using the appropriate tools for specific needs. Leads incident response across the engineering organization as needed. Uses systematic debugging to diagnose issues across the organization. Selects and procures tools and establishes processes to support the team in effective troubleshooting. - Drives and sets the culture of quality and timely code reviews across the organization while encouraging teams to consider release complications. Provides guidance on reviews conducted by others. Champions the engineering organization with an ability to understand and deliver to real user needs. - Drives the organizational testing strategy and uses quality metrics to identify gaps. Works with all teams to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid. Guides the teams on following standards and aims for best practice across the organization. - Works to keep skills up-to-date to aid in decision making, coaching and facilitation. Has basic knowledge in a wide variety of technologies and skill-sets with deep expertise in a few specific areas. - Actively works with the security team to set and refine organization-wide security strategy. Fosters a security first mindset across the organization. Drives security awareness and culture across the organization. - Takes ownership of decisions made in the engineering organization by helping teams make clear decisions in alignment with enterprise goals, backing decisions made, and taking responsibility for their success. Ensures accountability is practiced throughout the organization. - Sets the direction of the delivery process across the organization, on the importance and purpose of the methodology, has a clear point of view and guides the organization on improvements to the delivery process. Promotes a culture amongst engineering of delivering features with minimal disruption to production. Responsible for executing product roadmap on-time and within budget and ensures security and relevant compliance of core systems. - Ensures expectations across the organization and external stakeholders are clarified between all parties involved. Identifies dependencies across the organization and works with individual teams to resolve them before they become an issue and installs preventative measures to mitigate repeat occurrences. - Works across the organization to foster a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy. Coaches the team on making trade-offs, prioritization and managing technical debt. Identifies and manages technical and business risk.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Thorough understanding of several team's domains and how they contribute to the overall business strategy and alignment to the technical strategy
• Possesses expertise in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices in an agile environment
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Proven collaboration and influencing skills

Responsibilities

• Provides high-level architectural guidance and assists the team in aligning architecture to business requirements.
• Works across the organization to foster a culture of applying applicable and relevant design patterns, in accordance with the needs of the company and guides the teams in the organization in anticipation of future use cases.
• Works across the organization to foster a culture of architecture that allows for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
• Guides teams in the organization in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.
• Sets the direction of the architectural roadmap.
• Determines the Return-on-Investment for specific engineering initiatives and determines appropriate levels of investment for given strategic horizons.
• Establishes engineering strategic objectives that drive architecture and technical approach.
• Coaches the engineering organization on a debugging mindset with a view of using the appropriate tools for specific needs.
• Leads incident response across the engineering organization as needed.
• Uses systematic debugging to diagnose issues across the organization.
• Selects and procures tools and establishes processes to support the team in effective troubleshooting.
• Drives and sets the culture of quality and timely code reviews across the organization while encouraging teams to consider release complications.
• Provides guidance on reviews conducted by others.
• Champions the engineering organization with an ability to understand and deliver to real user needs.
• Drives the organizational testing strategy and uses quality metrics to identify gaps.
• Works with all teams to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid.
• Guides the teams on following standards and aims for best practice across the organization.
• Works to keep skills up-to-date to aid in decision making, coaching and facilitation.
• Has basic knowledge in a wide variety of technologies and skill-sets with deep expertise in a few specific areas.
• Actively works with the security team to set and refine organization-wide security strategy.
• Fosters a security first mindset across the organization.
• Drives security awareness and culture across the organization.
• Takes ownership of decisions made in the engineering organization by helping teams make clear decisions in alignment with enterprise goals, backing decisions made, and taking responsibility for their success.
• Ensures accountability is practiced throughout the organization.
• Sets the direction of the delivery process across the organization, on the importance and purpose of the methodology, has a clear point of view and guides the organization on improvements to the delivery process.
• Promotes a culture amongst engineering of delivering features with minimal disruption to production.
• Responsible for executing product roadmap on-time and within budget and ensures security and relevant compliance of core systems.
• Ensures expectations across the organization and external stakeholders are clarified between all parties involved.
• Identifies dependencies across the organization and works with individual teams to resolve them before they become an issue and installs preventative measures to mitigate repeat occurrences.
• Works across the organization to foster a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy.
• Coaches the team on making trade-offs, prioritization and managing technical debt.
• Identifies and manages technical and business risk.

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