Contract Azure Software Engineer Jobs in Illinois

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, designand 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.
• Experience in SPA development using React or Angular/Typescript.
• Entity Framework Core or Dapper experiences.
• Strong MS SQL skills with performance tuning and optimization
• Solid experiences in microservices development and containerization of Apps for Kubernetes deployment and build CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins or Azure DevOps
• Experience with JFrog Artifactory, GitLab, Docker, Helm Chart and Rancher.
• Experience with securing SPA using ForgeRock or similar identity provider and understand OIDC AuthZ/AuthN flow.
• Experience in writing xUnit, SpecFlow and PostMan tests
• UI testing framework experience, like Jasmine, WebdriverIO
• Event driven architecture with Azure Service Bus, Kafka or RabbitMQ

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Complete understanding of a feature, the users impacted, the flows impacted and feature's purpose
• Thorough understanding of the team's domain, how work in this domain relates to the team's objectives and deliverables and how it contributes to overall business strategy and how technical strategy maps to this
• Basic understanding of adjacent teams' business domains
• Ability to collaborate on all aspects of product development
• Technically proficient and able to define and fulfill solutions requirements for end user
• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers
• Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices
• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills

***This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.***