Lead Software Architect - Chicago, United States - U.S. Bank National Association

U.S. Bank National Association

Verified Company

Chicago, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

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.

At Bento, now part of the U.S. Bank family, we believe there's a better way for businesses to manage and control expenses.

We genuinely care about people in everything we do, and we are dedicated to building the best possible products and experiences at every touchpoint for our customers.

Position Overview:

As a Lead Software Architect, your Java expertise, AWS knowledge, and distributed systems design skills will be critical in shaping the architecture of our cloud-native spend-management platform.

Your experience and leadership will guide the team to achieve new levels of technical excellence. Join us in our mission to redefine expense management for businesses and deliver exceptional experiences to our business customers.

If you are an extraordinary software architect with extensive experience, thrive in a fast-growing environment, and are passionate about technology, people, and thoughtfully crafted products, we'd love to talk to you.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with senior members of the team to shape and drive the technical strategy and vision, leveraging AWS services and best practices.
Effectively communicate and collaborate across functions and groups to influence the strategic direction, driving improvements in the technology stack and customer experience.
Provide expert technical leadership to solve complex problems and mentor junior architects and engineers in Java development and AWS cloud architecture.
Elevate engineering and operational excellence by setting and maintaining high standards and best practices in distributed systems design.
Ensure seamless integration with thirdparty payment providers, such as credit cards, Zelle, PayPal, etc., through welldefined APIs.
Collaborate with crossfunctional teams, including developers, engineers, and product managers, to align architectural decisions with business goals.
Implement best practices for scalability, security, and performance within the AWS environment.
Be a businessminded and productoriented technical leader, maintaining a focus on delivering outstanding customer experiences.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering or similar, or equivalent work experience.
10+ years of software development and design experience, with a strong background in Javabased solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven track record of delivering highly scalable, reliable, and secure financial or spend management systems, utilizing AWS services.
Expertise in designing modern eventdriven architecture into the product, driving for the highest standards, and utilizing AWS Lambda, S3, and other cloudnative technologies.
Extensive technical experience in designing and implementing SaaS products at scale, with a strong emphasis on maintainability, scalability, and reliability. Demonstrated ability to build technical alignment across multiple teams.
A history of mentoring and coaching senior and junior engineers, maximizing their technical potential in Java development and AWS cloud architecture.
Polyglot experience with multiple objectoriented programming languages (e.g., Java, Ruby, Go, etc.).
Mastery of largescale database solutions, including relational databases and SQL.
Deep knowledge of modern web security features (e.g., authorization, identification, certificates, keychain, SSO, OAuth, SSL, 2FA, OAUTH, CSP, HSTS, SRI, CORS).
Knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements related to financial transactions.
Proven experience in building concurrent data streaming and realtime pubsub systems (e.g., Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS).
Proficiency in development and deployment on AWS, leveraging services such as EC2, RDS, and ECS.
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate and evangelize complex ideas clearly across organizational boundaries.

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days_.

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Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work.

That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind.

Our benefits include the following (some may