Technology Architect
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. U.S. Bank is seeking a Technology Architect with strategic and influencing experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives. Researches, models, and integrates business and technology architectures to align with business strategy, goals and objectives. Develops enterprise-wide conceptual technology architectures. Creates architectural principles to support business goals. Consults with business line managers and IT professionals to develop IT frameworks that support business applications. Understands and models key business capabilities, processes, relationships, and impact of technology on business goals. Formulates conceptual architectures and communicates architectural vision, goals and design objectives to multiple audiences. Develops technology strategies and roadmaps to deliver strategic business capabilities. Evaluates usefulness and makes recommendations regarding selected technologies. Participates in developing the IT vision and strategy. Consults with IT and business management regarding use of specific technologies and associated services. Identifies risks associated with current or new technology use. Successful applicants will exemplify US Bank's ethical principles of uncompromising integrity, respect for others, accountability for decisions and actions, and good citizenship.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in designing and developing end-to-end data architectures.
- Experience working with Azure data services (including Synapse or equivalent), Snowflake, and Databricks.
- Familiarity with building AI-enabled applications using AWS services (e.g., Bedrock), with the ability to prototype and validate architectural designs through hands-on experimentation
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- At least 10 years experience with developing and implementing applications.
- At least 10 years experience with the concepts, philosophies and tools behind the design of applications, information and underlying information technologies.
Nice To Haves
- Deep expertise in enterprise systems including payments, customer/account platforms, and identity & authentication
- Strong experience with API-led, microservices, and event-driven architectures (REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, event streaming)
- Proven ability designing distributed systems and cloud-native integration patterns (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Hands-on experience with modern data architectures (data mesh, domain-driven design) and platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Synapse
- Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into enterprise applications (model inference, AI services, decisioning systems)
- Strong focus on scalability, resiliency, and high availability, including failover and disaster recovery strategies
- Knowledge of modern UI frameworks and API-driven experience design, with strong frontend-backend integration understanding
- Solid grounding in security, IAM, data protection, and compliance, plus ability to validate architectures and drive reusable design patterns
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end solution design, defining architecture across systems, data, and AI capabilities.
- Translate business requirements into clear, scalable, and integrated solution designs, avoiding siloed implementations.
- Collaborate with product owners, engineering teams, and enterprise architects to ensure alignment with architecture standards and frameworks.
- Define and drive non-functional requirements (NFRs), including resiliency, performance, scalability, and failure handling.
- Own solution design strategy across initiatives, partnering with architects and senior stakeholders on architectural direction and trade-offs.
- Develop reference architectures, reusable patterns, and blueprints, and validate designs early through hands-on engagement.
- Evaluate technologies and vendor solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise platforms and strategic direction.
- Maintain a forward-looking architectural view, identifying dependencies, risks, and integration complexity early in the lifecycle.
- Contribute to product and platform roadmaps, ensuring solutions support scalability, reuse, and long-term growth.
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
- 401(k) contribution and pension
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
