Sr Analytics Platform Engineer (Databricks)

U.S. Bank National Association • San Francisco, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Be a part of transformational change where integrity matters, success inspires and great teams collaborate and innovate. As the fifth-largest bank in the United States, we’re one of the country's most respected, innovative, ethical and successful financial institutions. We’re looking for people who want more than just a job – they want to make a difference! U.S. Bank is seeking an Sr. Analytics Platform Engineer (Databricks focus) with a DevOps & Software Engineering skillset who will contribute toward the success of our technology initiative developing a modern analytics platform for the business. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• four to six years of relevant experience
• 3+ years of Databricks Experience

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrate strong understanding of the Data Engineering personas workflows, particularly around data ingestion and transformation, to ensure we build platform capabilities effectively support end‑to‑end analytics pipelines.
• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
• Complete understanding of a feature, the users impacted, the flows impacted, and the feature’s purpose
• Thorough understanding of the Analytics Engineering domain, how work in this domain relates to the team's objectives/deliverables, and how it contributes to overall business strategy
• Basic understanding of adjacent teams' business domains
• Ability to collaborate on all aspects of product development
• Technically proficient and able to define and fulfill solution requirements for end users
• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owners, scrum masters, third‑party vendors and customers
• Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices
• Effective problem‑solving and analytical skills

Responsibilities

• Deep understanding of at least one major cloud provider (Azure or AWS) regarding networking (VNet/VPC, PrivateLink), storage (ADLS Gen2, S3), and IAM.
• Advanced Proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Extensive experience with Terraform and the Databricks Terraform Provider to manage workspace resources, clusters, and permissions
• Extensive Experience building and using automation pipelines using, GitLab or similar for CICD and Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) to deploy notebooks, libraries, and jobs
• Practical understanding and experience with Databricks Platform Administration and responsible for build/test/deploy automation for managing workspaces, compute resources (clusters, serverless), and other related activities
• Practical Experience Implementing automation and administering the Unity Catalog supporting centralized governance, fine-grained access control (catalog, schema, table, row, column) etc.
• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production‑ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, proposes design changes, and encourages operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and applies changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to best practices supporting the bank’s technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

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: Mid Level