Business Data Architect

U.S. Bank • Minneapolis, MN

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. Job Description The Enterprise Data Office will drive the US Bank data strategy ensuring we have quality data and the right tools to support a data-driven approach, drive better outcomes, deepen insights, and improve experiences in accordance with our risk appetite. This will be executed with a data domain operating model to deliver on data vision, creating enterprise data marketplace that fosters transparency, awareness, and accessibility of data. EDO will be responsible for strengthening the foundation of data standard, governance, and data change management along with scaling data products and architecture to support re-use efficiencies and increased productivity. This role is critical to support EDO in these efforts and will be responsible for the following:

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of data modeling (ER, dimensional), master data, metadata, and data quality .
• Understanding of business processes , enterprise systems (CRM, Hogan, ALS etc.), and organizational domains.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), data warehouses, and data lakes.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration .

Responsibilities

• Data Strategy & Alignment Define and maintain the enterprise data strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Partner with executives and business stakeholders to understand strategic priorities and translate them into data capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to use data for improving business processes, customer experience, and decision-making.
• Data Modeling & Architecture Design Design conceptual and logical data models that reflect business processes, domain entities, and relationships.
• Ensure data models support analytics, AI/ML, operational systems, and integration needs.
• Establish data standards, naming conventions, and modeling best practices.
• Data Governance & Quality Collaborate with governance teams to develop data policies, standards, and stewardship practices .
• Define business metadata, data definitions, and taxonomies.
• Ensure high-quality, consistent, and trusted data across the organization.
• Requirements Gathering & Business Analysis Lead business-facing discussions to capture data requirements , use cases, and KPIs.
• Break down complex business processes into clear data flows and information needs.
• Work with product owners and business analysts to prioritize data initiatives.
• Data Integration & Interoperability Define how data moves across systems via data flows, integration patterns, and APIs .
• Work with solution/data engineers to implement scalable pipelines.
• Ensure systems can share and consume data in a consistent way.
• Technology Evaluation & Architecture Guidance Help evaluate tools (data platforms, MDM, metadata management, analytics tools, etc.).
• Provide architectural guidance on data lakes, data warehouses, and master data solutions.
• Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise data architecture standards.
• Support for Analytics, AI & BI Initiatives Define semantic layers, KPIs, and analytical data structures.
• Ensure analytical data aligns with business definitions and governance.
• Documentation & Communication Create and maintain data architecture documents, glossaries, data models, and diagrams.
• Clearly communicate data architecture decisions to business and technical teams.
• Provide training and guidance on how to interpret and use enterprise data.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees