U.S. Bank

Principal Solutions Architect - Investment Services Portfolio

U.S. Bank
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Base Salary

$160k - $188k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the Investment Services Portfolio architecture strategy, target state, and multi-year technology roadmap.
  • Translate business strategy, enterprise direction, regulatory needs, and emerging opportunities into technology priorities and investment recommendations.
  • Lead portfolio architecture governance to promote consistency, reuse, interoperability, resiliency, and enterprise alignment.
  • Oversee architecture for complex, high-risk initiatives involving applications, platforms, data, integration, cloud, and emerging technologies.
  • Lead modernization involving cloud, application rationalization, platforms, technical debt, DevOps, and platform engineering.
  • Identify systemic architecture risks and balance business outcomes, cost, speed, risk, and long-term sustainability.
  • Align application, platform, data, and AI strategies with security, privacy, governance, and regulatory requirements.
  • Establish reusable patterns and guardrails that accelerate delivery while maintaining quality and compliance.
  • Advise senior leaders through architecture reviews, strategic planning, roadmaps, and communication of tradeoffs.
  • Lead and mentor architects, including one direct report, and influence strategy across the organization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
  • At least eight years of relevant experience.
  • Preferred: ten or more years in software engineering, solution or enterprise architecture, platform architecture, or technology strategy.
  • Preferred: five or more years leading architecture for complex portfolios, business domains, platforms, or interconnected systems.
  • Experience defining target-state architectures and multi-year modernization roadmaps and influencing senior leaders on investment tradeoffs.
  • Strong knowledge of software development life cycles, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, integration, and cloud.
  • Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring architects and aligning teams through influence.
  • Ability to explain complex architecture decisions to executive, business, and technical audiences.
  • Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
  • Experience with Azure, AWS, hybrid or multi-cloud platforms, cloud-native services, and large-scale transformation.
  • Knowledge of enterprise portfolio planning, financial management, and technology investment.
  • Working knowledge of modern data platforms, analytics, AI/ML, intelligent automation, and AI-enabled development.
  • Familiarity with digital assets, tokenization, or other emerging financial technologies.
  • Knowledge of TOGAF, BIAN, Zachman, or relevant architecture and cloud certifications.

Benefits

  • Healthcare coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Basic and optional term life insurance.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave.
  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan.
  • Paid vacation of two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure.
  • Up to 11 paid holidays.
  • Adoption assistance.
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour per 30 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
  • Requires working from a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week.
  • Additional benefits may include incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase, 401(k) contributions, and pension, subject to eligibility.

Tech Stack

Categories

Solutions Engineering
U.S. Bank

About U.S. Bank

10,000+ employees

U.S. Bank is a public commercial bank offering consumer banking, commercial and institutional banking, payments, wealth management, and custody services to individuals and businesses. It earns revenue from interest on loans and securities and from fees across payments, asset management, and treasury services; it is the fifth-largest U.S. commercial bank, headquartered in Minneapolis, and trades on the NYSE as U.S. Bancorp (USB).

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