Technology Architect

 

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.

Job Description

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.

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.

• 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

Basic Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred skills

• 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

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 (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

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

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.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $119,765.00 - $140,900.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.