Lead C# / .NET / Azure Software Engineer

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 Job Description 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 a Software Engineer who will contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives in our digital transformation journey. This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles. Essential 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, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements • Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront • Takes feedback from code review and apply 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 the best practices in support of 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 Basic Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience • Six to eight years of relevant experience   Experience Should Include • STRONG financial industry understanding, particularly in CLO, Capital Markets or Alternative Investments • 10+ years of experience is a realistic base for success in this role • Strong C# skills: .NET Core (5 or above) development experience • Proven experience in technical leadership, decision making, design and development of products from scratch.  • Azure (AKS, Azure SQL, additional services, a level of expertise in Azure to make design recommendations/native services to leverage)  • Experience with REST APIs (both creation and consumption) • Proficient in applying modern design patterns and SOLID principles to solve complex business problems. •