Principal Solutions Architect - Investment Services Portfolio

U.S. Bank • Chicago, IL

1d • $159,970 - $188,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Solution Architect leads technology architecture strategy for the Investment Services Portfolio, a large WCIB portfolio serving institutional clients in a high-volume, highly regulated environment. This role owns the target-state architecture, multi-year roadmap, modernization strategy, and portfolio governance. It serves as a senior advisor to business and technology leaders, influencing investment priorities and architecture decisions while leading architects and translating business strategy into scalable, secure, resilient technology direction.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Eight or more years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Ten or more years in software engineering, solution or enterprise architecture, platform architecture, or technology strategy.
• Five or more years leading architecture for complex portfolios, business domains, platforms, or interconnected systems.
• Experience defining target-state architectures and multi-year modernization roadmaps while influencing senior leaders on investment tradeoffs.
• Strong knowledge of the software development life cycle, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, integration, and cloud.
• Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring architects and aligning teams through influence.
• Ability to explain complex architecture decisions to executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Architecture team leadership or formal people-management experience.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, hybrid or multi-cloud platforms, cloud-native services, and large-scale transformation.
• Knowledge of enterprise portfolio planning, financial management, and technology investment.
• Working knowledge of modern data platforms, analytics, AI/ML, intelligent automation, and AI-enabled development.
• Familiarity with digital assets, tokenization, or other emerging financial technologies.
• Knowledge of TOGAF, BIAN, Zachman, or relevant architecture and cloud certifications.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the portfolio architecture strategy, target state, and multi-year technology roadmap.
• Translate business strategy, enterprise direction, regulatory needs, and emerging opportunities into technology priorities and investment recommendations.
• Lead portfolio architecture governance to drive consistency, reuse, interoperability, resiliency, and enterprise alignment.
• Oversee architecture for complex, high-risk initiatives across applications, platforms, data, integration, cloud, and emerging technologies.
• Lead modernization across cloud, application rationalization, platforms, technical debt, DevOps, and platform engineering.
• Identify systemic architecture risks and balance business outcomes, cost, speed, risk, and long-term sustainability.
• Align application, platform, data, and AI strategies with security, privacy, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish reusable patterns and guardrails that accelerate delivery while maintaining quality and compliance.
• Advise senior leaders through architecture reviews, strategic planning, roadmaps, and clear communication of tradeoffs.
• Lead and mentor architects, including one direct report, while influencing strategy across the broader organization.

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: Principal