Key Responsibilities
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. 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. 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. Technical Leadership Architectural Governance

- Provide strategicarchitectural direction, aligning solutions to business needs, enterprise standards, and regulatory requirements.

- Ensuredesigns 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. 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. 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-timedecisioningsystems.

- 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 teamsbuildingAPI-first acquisition and Open Banking solutions, with a focus onreal-time decisioning, resiliency, performance, and regulatory compliance.
Core TechnicalExpectations

- 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/CloudBeesand 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

- Bachelors 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.





- Provenexpertisebuilding 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 toinfluence acrosstechnical and non-technical audiences.

- Proven ability to collaborate effectively withengineers, product managers, scrum teams, business stakeholders, and external partners.

Preferred Qualifications

- Strong domainexpertiseincustomer 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,microservicesarchitecture, API platforms, and event-driven integration patterns.

- Experience leadingmodernization initiatives, including integrating current 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 andoperatesat 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 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.

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.

📌 Software Engineering Manager - Java Full Stack - Open Banking (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 U.S. Bancorp India
📍 Tamil Nadu