Technology Architect

U.S. Bank is seeking a Technology Architect with strategic and influencing experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives.

• 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.
• Design and develop end‑to‑end data architectures, including experience with Azure data services (Synapse or equivalent), Snowflake, and Databricks.
• Build AI‑enabled applications using AWS services (e.g., Bedrock) and prototype architectural designs through hands‑on experimentation.

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

• 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 to design 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.

Work from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

• 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 (2‑5 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.

Applicants may be required to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures, including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies. Background checks and applicable legal requirements may apply.