Lead Architect - Data Lakehouse

Location: Earth City

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.

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Job Description

Develops high level frameworks that align IT infrastructure with business processes/data to support and enable the execution of business strategies, to improve the efficiency and productivity of business operations, and to better connect business objectives to the people, process, technology and data changes required to achieve results. Maps the relationships between information systems components (i.e., end users, business processes, applications, data, IT platform hardware/software, info security and networks).

Identifies key interactions and dependencies across separate systems and platforms. Evaluates the total cost of ownership and return on investment of various architecture alternatives.

Basic Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

* Eight or more years of related experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

* Demonstrated experience analyzing business products and technology to define target/future state architecture optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, cost, security, using both Cloud Native and On-prem solutions.

* Proven track record leading cross-functional engineering teams, enforcing best practices, and aligning technical delivery with strategic architecture principles.

* Leadership experience driving technology transformation, modernization, and large-scale program delivery, preferably in the banking/finance industry supporting high‑volume payments products in a multi-tenant environment.

* Proven track record in digital transformation, Data Lakehouse architecture, cloud migration (Azure/AWS), application engineering and IT program management.

* Proven leadership implementing data governance, security, and compliance controls aligned to PCI DSS, SOX, GDPR, and regulatory expectations.

* Hands-on experience with multi-zone data lake patterns (raw, cleaned/enhanced, curated/trusted, consumption), optimized storage formats, metadata-driven ingestion, and analytics-ready data models. Enables BI, reporting, customer extracts, data science, and other use cases at enterprise scale.

* Expertise in real‑time and batch data ingestion architectures (Kafka/Event Hubs, Spark, Delta Lake, etc.), including leading design and management of tools/processes/services for comprehensive data ingestion and integration.

* Experience leading the design and implementation of enterprise data governance frameworks, including data lineage, cataloging, business glossaries, and data quality controls. Ensures end-to-end traceability from source to consumption, improving data trust, auditability, and regulatory compliance.

* Technical Skills (or similar/equivalent): AWS GLUE, IAM ROLES, LAMBDA, S3 /EFS, REDSHIFT, DMS, KAFKA/EVENT HUB, SNS, SQS, CLOUDWATCH/Event Bridge, AIRFLOW, POSTGRES/ORACLE/DB2, ETC, COLLIBRA, DATABRICKS, DELTA LAKE, PYTHON, SNOWFLAKE, SNOWPIPE / SNOWSQL, SNOWPARK, DATA MODELLING, DATA MANAGEMENT, ETL TOOLS (SPARK, ETC), POWER BI, COGNOS, TABLEAU, CI/CD PIPELINES SUPPORTING DATA LAKEHOUSE

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:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

* Healthcare…