About the Role
The Senior Technical L2 Analyst is the technical owner for complex Tier 2 product and platform issues, operating at the intersection of customer impact, system behavior, and engineering execution. This role goes beyond standard escalation handling, requiring deep understanding of system architecture, data flows, integrations, and failure modes to independently investigate complex issues and partner with Engineering to drive durable resolutions. The role also serves as a key input into platform stability, operational health, and product quality. This is a hands-on, highly technical individual contributor role.
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical owner for high-impact and complex Tier 2 issues across the Spend Management platform.
- Independently assess severity, scope, and blast radius using system data, logs, and platform signals.
- Drive cross-functional resolution by coordinating with Engineering, Product, Risk, and Support teams.
- Ensure issues are tracked end-to-end through resolution, validation, and post-incident learnings.
- Investigate complex issues across distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, third-party integrations, and configuration layers.
- Analyze logs, request payloads, system behavior, and integration flows to identify failure points.
- Reproduce issues in lower environments and validate hypotheses before Engineering handoff.
- Distinguish between product defects, configuration issues, data inconsistencies, and external dependency failures.
- Lead root cause analysis for recurring or systemic issues and document findings clearly.
- Identify patterns and trends that signal platform risk or degradation.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to propose corrective actions that improve system reliability and reduce repeat incidents.
- Act as a technical partner to Engineering during incident response and fix validation.
- Validate fixes in demo or test environments with a focus on real-world scenarios and edge cases.
- Support release readiness by identifying risk areas based on historical incidents and system knowledge.
- Author and maintain technical troubleshooting documentation, known-issue guides, and escalation runbooks.
- Raise the technical maturity of Tier 2 support by standardizing investigation approaches and documentation quality.
- Contribute to process improvements that reduce time-to-resolution and improve support confidence.
- Communicate clearly with Support, Product, and Engineering during active escalations.
- Produce concise, technical summaries suitable for leadership consumption, including impact assessment and resolution status.
- Escalate material risks and unresolved systemic issues with clarity and recommended next steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- At least 10 years experience with activities, tasks, practices and deliverables for assessing and documenting business opportunities, benefits, risks, and success factors of potential applications.
- Ability to read and reason about technical artifacts (logs, payloads, schemas, workflows).
- Proven experience working directly with engineering teams during issue investigation and resolution.
- Strong documentation skills with the ability to translate complex technical issues for non-technical audiences.
- Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.
Skills
- Troubleshooting distributed systems
- APIs
- Data integrations
- SaaS platforms
- Financial systems support
- Payments support
- Card platforms support
- Cloud-based architectures
- Observability tools
- Incident management practices
- Accounting platforms integration support (e.g., QuickBooks, Xero, Sage)
- Third-party vendor integration support
Location
- U.S. Bank
Work Type
- Hybrid/flexible schedule (3+ days in office per week)
Experience Level
- Senior
- 6–8 years of experience in technical support, platform operations, SRE, or systems analysis roles.
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
Salary/Compensations
- Pay Range: $124,355.00 - $146,300.00
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
About the Company
- 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.
- U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories.
- The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
- In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).
- U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment.
- U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
- U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA).
- In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.
- Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
Equal Opportunity
- U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.
