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About the Role

The Commercial Real Estate Senior Underwriter manages portfolio risk by ensuring timeliness and accuracy of all credit actions, providing guidance on credit structure and risk rating decisions, and participating in pre-flight discussions. This role coordinates work with Credit, Loan Administration, and other groups to promote consistent quality and conciseness of credit documents and streamline workflow.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite new originations and portfolio exposures for a broad range of CRE asset classes.
• Analyze borrower financials, property cash flows, collateral valuation, sponsor strength, covenant sensitivities, and market conditions.
• Prepare clear, comprehensive written credit analyses and supporting documentation.
• Execute straightforward credit requests for existing clients with limited supervision.
• Assist with annual company-wide credit reviews for clients with multiple property holdings, including analysis beyond bank-financed properties.
• Underwrite credit opportunities for existing hyperscale and colocation data centers and construction/build-to-suit turnkey and powered shell facilities.
• Analyze data center lease structures, credit drivers, construction, technical complexities, and resiliency metrics.
• Support both existing property transactions (including refinancings) and ground-up construction projects, including budget monitoring and monthly construction draw reviews through project completion.
• Assist with new deal originations, evaluating opportunities with typical transaction sizes of $50MM–$100MM, with select transactions up to $750MM.
• Participate in the preparation and negotiation of term sheets, as applicable.
• Support Relationship Managers and Portfolio Managers in managing an assigned portfolio of commercial real estate client relationships.
• Perform accurate and consistent spreading of borrower financial statements in accordance with bank standards and credit policies.
• Prepare quarterly trend analyses, monitoring reports, and covenant compliance testing.
• Maintain compliance monitoring and financial reporting databases, including tracking credit agreement requirements, borrower financial receipt, and key credit metrics.
• Participate in quarterly portfolio reviews, including analysis of operating statements, rent rolls, and risk assessments.
• Proactively identify and communicate emerging risks, mitigants, and other issues at the transaction and portfolio level.
• Collaborate effectively with Credit Approvers and internal risk partners.
• Participate in client bank meetings, as needed, to support underwriting, portfolio management, and risk discussions.
• Serve as a reliable first line of credit analysis, escalating issues appropriately.

Requirements

• Master's degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Ten or more years of commercial lending experience.
• Strong foundation in CRE underwriting across multiple property types (cash flow, valuation, sponsor analysis, structure, and covenants).
• Demonstrated experience underwriting and/or financing data centers.
• Experience authoring credit memoranda and presenting key risks, mitigants, and recommendations to approval committees.
• Strong analytical and technical writing skills; able to translate complex sponsor/tenant/technical diligence into clear credit narratives.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across origination, portfolio management, credit risk, and technical advisors.
• Comfort operating with accountability—independently driving analyses while partnering closely with Relationship Managers, Portfolio Managers, and Credit Approvers.
• Familiarity with banking credit policy, loan documentation concepts, and CRE underwriting processes (construction, bridge, term, and portfolio facilities).
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (cash flow modeling and scenario analysis) and the broader Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience with nCino, CoStar, and/or other CRE/data center research platforms preferred.
• 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

• Commercial lending
• CRE underwriting
• Data center financing
• Credit analysis
• Financial modeling
• Scenario analysis
• Technical writing
• Verbal communication
• Written communication
• Collaboration
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office Suite
• nCino
• CoStar

Location

• U.S. Bank location

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior
• Ten or more years of commercial lending experience

Education Level

• Master's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $148,495.00 - $174,700.00

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
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• Pension

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.