Automation Enablement Lead

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.

This role connects business needs to technical solutions by translating stakeholder objectives into clear, feasible, well-defined requirements aligned to existing systems, infrastructure, and delivery timelines. The role leads with an automation-first mindset, evaluating how automation, AI, and emerging capabilities can simplify work, improve experiences, and scale operations, while exercising judgment when manual, process, or configuration-based solutions are more effective.  Through strong discovery and problem framing, the role ensures solutions address root causes while maximizing automation opportunities where they create durable business value. Key Accountabilities Define the problem clearly. Partner with business and operations stakeholders to understand incoming needs, identify root causes, and shape ambiguous requests into well-defined problem statements before a solution is proposed. Act as the bridge between business and technical teams. Translate business intent into clear, testable requirements that configuration analysts, integration developers, and delivery managers can execute without chasing answers. Map process independent of system. Document current-state and ideal-state process flows so the solution fits the problem, rather than shaping the problem to fit an available tool. Champion automation-first solution design . Evaluate automation, AI, and emerging capabilities as the preferred path for solving business problems, developing solution recommendations that maximize efficiency, scalability, and experience outcomes while remaining practical and sustainable. Validate feasibility before implementation. Use prototypes and proofs of concept where appropriate to demonstrate feasibility, constraints, scalability, infrastructure implications, cost, and delivery considerations — reducing risk before build. Ensure solutions are well-defined, feasible, and aligned. Confirm every recommended solution is consistent with requirements, existing platforms, infrastructure, and delivery timelines. Identify impacted systems and dependencies. Surface affected systems, data sources, cross-process dependencies, and infrastructure requirements early, so nothing breaks downstream in execution. (Future scope) Anchor and grow the capability. As demand proves out, this role may define the discipline for others, and hire and lead junior definition, configuration, and automation talent beneath it. Decision Authority - Defines how incoming problems are scoped, framed, and translated into requirements. - Owns recommendations for solution approach, with a bias toward automation and AI where they can deliver meaningful business value, while exercising sound judgment when configuration, process redesign, or manual intervention is the better option. - Influences architectural direction and prioritization through evidence-based validation and experimentation. -Success is measured by the clarity and executability of the requirements produced, the durability of the solutions recommended, and the effective application of automation and AI where they add real value. Typical Qualifications: - 4-year degree (or equivalent experience) - 5+ years of related experience - Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous business problems and make them well-defined and executable - Fluency in process analysis and requirements translation across business and technical audiences - Working knowledge of