Job DescriptionRole SummaryThe Technology Architect leads
end-to-end solution design, shaping early architectural decisions and ensuring solutions are built for scale, resiliency, security, and long-term sustainability. This role partners closely with product, engineering, data, infrastructure, and architecture teams to deliver
integrated, business-aligned outcomes across enterprise systems, data, and AI.
Key Responsibilities- Lead end-to-end solution design, defining architecture across systems, data, integration, infrastructure, 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, including resiliency, performance, scalability, security, and failure handling.
- Own solution design strategy across initiatives, partnering with architects and senior stakeholders on architectural direction and trade-offs.
- Develop reference architecture, reusable patterns, and blueprints, and validate designs early through solution shaping and technical validation.
- 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.
- Contribute to product and platform roadmaps, ensuring solutions support scalability, reuse, and long-term growth.
Core Skills & ExperienceAI, ML & Infrastructure- Understanding of AI/ML architecture and integration patterns, including ML models, LLMs, inference, agents, and AI-enabled applications.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications, data platforms, and business workflows.
- Familiarity with AI/ML deployment and infrastructure patterns, including managed platforms such as Snowflake ML, containerized deployment on EKS/AKS, and GPU-based workloads.
- Ability to work with engineering teams to shape secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective AI solutions.
Enterprise Systems & Domain Knowledge- Understanding of core transactional systems and enterprise platforms across areas such as payments, customer/account systems, authentication, and servicing.
Integration & System Architecture- Experience designing API-led and event-driven architectures, including REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, orchestration, and cloud-based integration patterns.
Data Platforms & Data Architecture- Experience with modern data architecture, including data mesh and domain-driven data products.
- Familiarity with cloud-based data and analytics platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, or equivalent.
Resiliency & Non-Functional Design- Strong focus on high-availability architectures, failover strategies, scalability, performance, and operational readiness.
Experience & UI Architecture- Familiarity with modern UI frameworks and API-driven experience architectures.
- Understanding of user experience integration with backend systems.
Security, Risk & ComplianceKnowledge of
identity and access management, data protection, and secure design practices in regulated environments.
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.
Additional Preferred Skills- Experience validating architecture using APIs, data platforms, infrastructure, and AI components to establish feasibility and alignment with design intent.
- Ability to create and promote reusable design patterns that accelerate delivery across teams.
This role offers the opportunity to shape enterprise-scale architecture, drive innovation across AI and data, and influence the design of next-generation digital platforms.Location expectationsThis role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.
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.
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
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants. 
