Technology Architect

U.S. Bank

. Lead end-to-end solution design, defining architecture across systems, data, and AI capabilities .

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeHopkins • Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $119,765 - $140,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

solution designarchitecturenon-functional requirementsAPI-led architecturemicroservicesevent-driven architecturedistributed systemscloud-native integrationdata architecturesAI/ML integration

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingstakeholder management

Certifications

Bachelor's degree