Sr DevOps Analytics Platform Engineer (Databricks)

U.S. Bank•Cincinnati, OH

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, we are committed to helping customers and businesses make smarter financial decisions and enabling communities to grow. We believe in the unique potential of each individual and offer a wide range of opportunities for career growth and learning. As the fifth-largest bank in the United States, U.S. Bank is a respected, innovative, ethical, and successful financial institution. We are seeking a Sr. DevOps Analytics Platform Engineer with a Databricks focus and a strong DevOps & Software Engineering skillset. This role will be crucial in developing a modern analytics platform for the business and requires proficiency in the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
Four to six years of relevant experience
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.
3+ years of Databricks Experience
5+ years of Data Platform Experience
10+ years of Data Engineering related experience
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
Ability to work from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week

Responsibilities

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
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
Pension