Lead Platform Engineer - API, AI & Gateway Systems

U.S. Bank; Hopkins (MN); On-site; USD 127,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to lead Enterprise API Solution Engineering, building API, AI, and gateway platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

You will architect and operate scalable API gateway platforms (Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management) and drive secure, compliant integrations. You’ll mentor teams, contribute to IaC and CI/CD pipelines, and enforce governance through policy-as-code, OAuth 2.0, JWT, and mTLS while collaborating with Cloud, IAM,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Six to eight years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, engineering, and operation of scalable API, AI, and cloud-native platform solutions supporting enterprise business domains.
• Architect and manage enterprise API gateway platforms including Apigee, AWS API Gateway, and Azure API Management.
• Develop and maintain API proxies, shared flows, gateway policies, and GraphQL services to enable secure, high-performance integrations.
• Build and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and automation frameworks to support platform provisioning, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and self-service deployment capabilities that improve developer productivity and platform adoption.
• Drive security, compliance, and governance standards, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, RBAC, audit logging, and policy-as-code controls.
• Design resilient multi-cloud networking and connectivity solutions, including private endpoints, load balancing, disaster recovery, and traffic management.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration with Cloud, Security, IAM, Networking, and FinOps teams.

Skills

Platform Engineering

API Gateway Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure

Apigee Platform

OAuth 2.0

JWT

mTLS

RBAC

Policy as Code

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

Networking

CI/CD

SRE

Observability

IAM

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

APIGateway Platforms

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to lead Enterprise API Solution Engineering, building API, AI, and gateway platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

You will architect and operate scalable API gateway platforms (Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management) and drive secure, compliant integrations. You’ll mentor teams, contribute to IaC and CI/CD pipelines, and enforce governance through policy-as-code, OAuth 2.0, JWT, and mTLS while collaborating with Cloud, IAM,