Technology Architect (AI & Data)

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.

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.

Lead end-to-end solution design, defining architecture across core banking 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. Design scalable Batch and Real-time data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and streaming across Data lakes and OLTPs. Define and drive non-functional requirements (NFRs), including resiliency, performance, scalability, and failure handling. Develop reference architectures, reusable patterns, and blueprints, and validate designs early through hands-on engagement. Drive automation architecture across build, testing, deployment, infrastructure, monitoring, and operations. 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. Collaborate with engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to ensure designs meet regulatory, risk, and performance requirements typical of a banking environment. Identify technical debt and architectural risks across the portfolio and propose remediation or modernization plans.

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/Experience Strong expertise in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and Distributed Systems Design within complex enterprise environments. Hands-on experience designing and implementing AI-powered solutions , including LLMs, AI Agents, RAG architectures, Copilots, and Generative AI platforms . Deep knowledge of API-driven architectures,