Software Engineering Manager - Java Full Stack - Open Banking

U.S. Bank; Chennai District; Sur place; INR 4 000 000 - 7 000 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

U.S. Bancorp India is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead a global engineering organization focused on API-driven, real-time decisioning platforms for digital acquisition and underwriting.

You will drive talent strategy, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning while fostering an inclusive, high-excellence culture across India and international partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years designing and delivering modern, distributed software systems.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams, including globally distributed/offshore teams.
• Proven ability to scale platform-based solutions with measurable business impact.
• Experience translating business strategy into technology outcomes with stakeholders.

Responsabilités

• Lead a high-performing engineering organization, scale India operations, and promote ownership and quality.
• Own API-first platform design for acquisition and underwriting with real-time decisioning.
• Deliver on-time, within-budget roadmaps while ensuring security and reliability.
• Provide architectural direction and governance across platforms for scalability and compliance.
• Collaborate with product, risk, and architecture leaders to align roadmaps and delivery.
• Define resiliency standards and lead incident management for critical flows.

Connaissances

Leadership

Distributed systems

Java/Spring Boot

APIs

Cloud & Kubernetes

Open Banking

Incident management

Formation

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Outils

Kafka

Jenkins

GitLab

Kubernetes

Apigee

Description du poste

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 Key Responsibilities

1. 1. Global Engineering Leadership & India Expansion Lead and scale ahigh-performing global engineering organization, including building and expanding the India team supporting Acquisition and Open Banking platforms. Establish a strongengineering culturefocused on ownership, quality, innovation, and continuous improvement. Drivetalent strategyacross hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning. Foster aninclusive, accountable environmentthat promotes collaboration, technical excellence, and leadership growth.
2. 2. Platform Engineering & Architecture (Acquisition & Underwriting) Own the design and evolution ofAPI-first, event-driven platformsenabling digital acquisition and real-time underwriting. Architectdecoupled systemsseparating customer journeys, decisioning, and core banking platforms to improve scalability and agility. Establishreusable platform capabilities(decisioning, identity, fraud, KYC, and data integration) consumable across products, channels, and partners. Drive engineering excellence indistributed systems, scalability, and secure Open Banking integrations.
3. 3. Execution, Delivery & Operational Performance Lead delivery of theproduct and platform roadmapwith clear accountability for business outcomes, quality, and operational stability. Ensurepredictable, on-time, and within-budget executionwhile meeting security, compliance, and reliability standards. Promote strong engineering practices, includinghigh-quality code, sound design decisions, and production stability. Proactively managedependencies, risks, and trade-offs, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and strategic goals.
4. 4. Technical Leadership & Architectural Governance Provide strategicarchitectural direction, aligning solutions to business needs, enterprise standards, and regulatory requirements. Ensure designs arescalable, resilient, maintainable, and testable, with clear handling of dependencies and failure scenarios. Leadarchitecture reviews and design forums, driving consistency and simplification across platforms. Continuously simplify systems to improvespeed, reliability, and supportability.
5. 5. Cross-Functional Strategy & Stakeholder Engagement Partner withproduct, business, risk, and architecture leadersto define and deliver acquisition and underwriting capabilities. Influence roadmap decisions by balancingengineering strategy, customer experience, risk, and delivery constraints. Drive alignment across teams to enableefficient, end-to-end value deliveryacross the ecosystem. Communicatearchitecture, strategy, and delivery risksclearly to both technical and executive stakeholders.
6. 6. Resiliency, Risk & Operational Excellence Define and enforceresiliency standards(tiering, SLOs, failover strategies) for mission-critical acquisition and underwriting flows. Ensurehigh availability and low-latency performancefor real-time decisioning systems. Leadincident management, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvementsacross the platform.

Technical Scope

The Senior Software Engineering Manager is expected to bring stronghands-on technical leadership and credibilityin designing and deliveringmodern, distributed, and scalable platforms. This role leads engineering teams buildingAPI-first acquisition and Open Banking solutions, with a focus onreal-time decisioning, resiliency, performance, and regulatory compliance.

Core Technical Expectations

• Design and buildhighly scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on modularity, extensibility, and testability.
• Lead development ofmicroservices, APIs, SDKs, and front-end components (MFE)using Java, Spring Boot, and modern UI frameworks aligned to API-driven architectures.
• Architectlow-latency, high-throughput platformsto support real-time acquisition flows and credit decisioning workloads.
• Enableseamless integration across channels and partnersthrough well-defined RESTful APIs and event-driven communication patterns.
• Applyevent-driven architecture principlesusing Kafka and related streaming technologies to support asynchronous processing and real-time data flows.
• Leveragecloud-native and container-based platforms, including Kubernetes, Istio, Rancher, and API gateways (Apigee), to enable scalability, observability, and secure service communication.
• Establish modernDevOps and CI/CD practicesusing tools such as Jenkins/CloudBees and GitLab, ensuring automated testing, deployment, and release management.
• Enforce best practices insource control, code quality, and agile delivery, driving consistency, speed, and reliability across engineering teams.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution ofcomplex production issues, ensuring rapid recovery, root cause analysis, and continuous system improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing and deliveringmodern, distributed software systems.
• 5+ years of experienceleading high-performing engineering teams, including globally distributed/offshore teams.
• Proven expertise building and scalingplatform-based solutionswith measurable business impact.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in deliveringcomplex, multi-stakeholder productsin fast-paced, enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding ofsoftware engineering practices, architecture patterns, and enterprise development tools.
• Ability to translatebusiness strategy into technology and engineering outcomes, driving alignment across product, risk, and engineering.
• Stronganalytical, planning, leadership, and communication skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively withengineers, product managers, scrum teams, business stakeholders, and external partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong domain expertise incustomer acquisition, credit underwriting, and Open Banking ecosystems.
• Experience infinancial services or other highly regulated industries, with an understanding of risk, compliance, and security requirements.
• Advanced knowledge ofdistributed systems, microservices architecture, API platforms, and event-driven integration patterns.
• Experience leadingmodernization initiatives, including integrating new platforms with legacy systems in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to balancefeature delivery, technical debt, and operational reliability at scale.
• Experience withcloud-native platforms and engineering ecosystems(Azure, containers, CI/CD, API management).
• Relevant certifications inJava, Spring, Microservices, or Cloud technologiesare a plus.

Leadership Profile

The ideal candidate is a leader who: Thinks and operates at aplatform and ecosystem level, considering impacts across domains, customer journeys, and partner integrations. Demonstrates deep understanding ofend-to-end acquisition and underwriting flows, including users, systems, and business outcomes. Proactively addressesambiguity, risks, and dependencies, guiding teams toward sound, data-driven decisions. Builds a culture ofstrong engineering fundamentals, including design patterns, coding standards, quality engineering, and accountability. Combinestechnical depth, strategic thinking, and disciplined executionto deliver consistent results. Effectively represents and scalesglobal 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. 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.

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.