Sr. Technology Architect

Senior Technology Architect

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Technology Architect with strategic analysis and enterprise-wide technology experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives.

• Lead the architecture, design, and governance of enterprise payment, gateway, and digital transaction platforms.
• Develop scalable solution architectures supporting cloud modernization, API-first strategies, and distributed systems.
• Define architecture standards, technology roadmaps, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with business, product, security, and engineering teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for complex integrations across internal platforms, third-party vendors, fintech partners, and payment networks.
• Drive application resiliency, high availability, performance optimization, and operational excellence across critical systems.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions that improve scalability, automation, security, and customer experience.
• Mentor engineers and architects while influencing strategic technology decisions across multiple portfolios and initiatives.

Basic Qualifications

-Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
-At least 10 years experience with the concepts, philosophies and tools behind the design of applications, information and underlying information technologies.

-At least 10 years experience with developing and implementing applications.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Enterprise Architecture experience designing large-scale, mission-critical technology platforms.
• Strong expertise in Payments, Merchant Services, Payment Gateways, or high-volume transaction processing systems.
• Deep knowledge of Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP), cloud-native design patterns, and container-based platforms.
• Experience designing and governing API, Microservices, and Event-Driven Architectures.
• Strong understanding of Security Architecture, authentication, authorization, encryption, and risk management principles.
• Expertise with System Integration, third-party vendor connectivity, and enterprise service platforms.
• Experience with High Availability, disaster recovery, observability, performance engineering, and reliability practices.
• Excellent Technical Leadership, stakeholder management, solution consulting, and architecture governance skills.

Location expectations This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

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

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.