Software Engineering Manager - Java Full Stack - Open Banking

At U.S. Bancorp India, we're on a journey to do our best. 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. Bancorp India 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

• Lead and scale a high-performing global engineering organization, including building and expanding the India team supporting Acquisition and Open Banking platforms.
• Establish a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive talent strategy across hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning.
• Foster an inclusive, accountable environment that promotes collaboration, technical excellence, and leadership growth.

• Own the design and evolution of API-first, event-driven platforms enabling digital acquisition and real-time underwriting.
• Architect decoupled systems separating customer journeys, decisioning, and core banking platforms to improve scalability and agility.
• Establish reusable platform capabilities (decisioning, identity, fraud, KYC, and data integration) consumable across products, channels, and partners.
• Drive engineering excellence in distributed systems, scalability, and secure Open Banking integrations.

• Lead delivery of the product and platform roadmap with clear accountability for business outcomes, quality, and operational stability.
• Ensure predictable, on-time, and within-budget execution while meeting security, compliance, and reliability standards.
• Promote strong engineering practices, including high-quality code, sound design decisions, and production stability.
• Proactively manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and strategic goals.

• Provide strategic architectural direction, aligning solutions to business needs, enterprise standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensuredesigns are scalable, resilient, maintainable, and testable, with clear handling of dependencies and failure scenarios.
• Lead architecture reviews and design forums, driving consistency and simplification across platforms.
• Continuously simplify systems to improve speed, reliability, and supportability.

• Partner with product, business, risk, and architecture leaders to define and deliver acquisition and underwriting capabilities.
• Influence roadmap decisions by balancing engineering strategy, customer experience, risk, and delivery constraints.
• Drive alignment across teams to enable efficient, end-to-end value delivery across the ecosystem.
• Communicate architecture, strategy, and delivery risks clearly to both technical and executive stakeholders.

• Define and enforce resiliency standards (tiering, SLOs, failover strategies) for mission-critical acquisition and underwriting flows.
• Ensure high availability and low-latency performance for real-timedecisioningsystems.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements across the platform.

• Design and build highly scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on modularity, extensibility, and testability.
• Lead development of microservices, APIs, SDKs, and front-end components (MFE) using Java, Spring Boot, and modern UI frameworks aligned to API-driven architectures.
• Architect low-latency, high-throughput platforms to support real-time acquisition flows and credit decisioning workloads.
• Enable seamless integration across channels and partners through well-defined RESTful APIs and event-driven communication patterns.
• Apply event-driven architecture principles using Kafka and related streaming technologies to support asynchronous processing and real-time data flows.
• Leverage cloud-native and container-based platforms, including Kubernetes, Istio, Rancher, and API gateways (Apigee), to enable scalability, observability, and secure service communication
• Establish modern DevOps and CI/CD practices using tools such as Jenkins/CloudBeesand GitLab, ensuring automated testing, deployment, and release management.
• Enforce best practices in source control, code quality, and agile delivery, driving consistency, speed, and reliability across engineering teams.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues, ensuring rapid recovery, root cause analysis, and continuous system improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing and delivering modern, distributed software systems.
• 5+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams, including globally distributed/offshore teams.
• Provenexpertisebuilding and scaling platform-based solutions with measurable business impact.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in delivering complex, multi-stakeholder products in fast-paced, enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of software engineering practices, architecture patterns, and enterprise development tools.
• Ability to translate business strategy into technology and engineering outcomes, driving alignment across product, risk, and engineering.
• Strong analytical, planning, leadership, and communication skills, with the ability toinfluence acrosstechnical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, scrum teams, business stakeholders, and external partners.

• Strong domainexpertisein customer acquisition, credit underwriting, and Open Banking ecosystems.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries, with an understanding of risk, compliance, and security requirements.
• Advanced knowledge of distributed systems,microservicesarchitecture, API platforms, and event-driven integration patterns.
• Experience leading modernization initiatives, including integrating new platforms with legacy systems in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to balance feature delivery, technical debt, and operational reliability at scale.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and engineering ecosystems (Azure, containers, CI/CD, API management).
• Relevant certifications in Java, Spring, Microservices, or Cloud technologies are a plus.

• Thinks andoperatesat a platform and ecosystem level, considering impacts across domains, customer journeys, and partner integrations.
• Demonstrates deep understanding of end-to-end acquisition and underwriting flows, including users, systems, and business outcomes.
• Proactively addresses ambiguity, risks, and dependencies, guiding teams toward sound, data-driven decisions.
• Builds a culture of strong engineering fundamentals, including design patterns, coding standards, quality engineering, and accountability.
• Combines technical depth, strategic thinking, and disciplined execution to deliver consistent results.
• Effectivelyrepresentsand scales global engineering teams, especially across India and U.S.-based stakeholders.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants -https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/disability-accommodations-for-applicants.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.