Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, and governance for enterprise payment, gateway, and digital transaction platforms.
- Develop scalable solution architectures supporting cloud modernization, API-first strategies, and distributed systems.
- Define architecture standards, technology roadmaps, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
- Translate business and technical requirements into solutions in partnership with product, security, engineering, and business teams.
- Provide technical leadership for complex integrations involving internal platforms, third-party vendors, fintech partners, and payment networks.
- Drive application resiliency, high availability, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve scalability, automation, security, and customer experience.
- Mentor engineers and architects and influence strategic technology decisions across multiple portfolios.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
- At least 10 years of experience with the concepts, philosophies, and tools behind application, information, and underlying information technology design.
- At least 10 years of experience developing and implementing applications.
- Experience designing large-scale, mission-critical enterprise technology platforms.
- Strong expertise in payments, merchant services, payment gateways, or high-volume transaction processing systems.
- Deep knowledge of cloud architecture, cloud-native design patterns, and container-based platforms, including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with API, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Understanding of security architecture, authentication, authorization, encryption, and risk management principles.
- Expertise in system integration, third-party vendor connectivity, and enterprise service platforms.
- Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, observability, performance engineering, and reliability practices.
- Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, solution consulting, and architecture governance skills.
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 for every 30 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring presence at a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week.
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About U.S. Bank
At U.S. Bank, we help millions of clients achieve their goals with a balance of best-in-class technology and human expertise tailored to individual needs. As the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, we’ve built a reputation for strength and stability across a diversified mix of businesses, including commercial and institutional banking, business banking, payments, wealth management and consumer banking. We’ve been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute and the most admired superregional bank by Fortune. In addition to thousands of branches serving consumers, U.S. Bank offers a complete suite of products, services and strategic partnerships for business. Within our Wealth, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking division, we serve more than half a million clients across the country and around the world, ranging from wealthy individuals and families to the largest corporations, including 90% of Fortune 1000 companies. We’re also consistently recognized as a great place to work. We’re shaping our company culture with intention, focused on creating a workplace where it’s safe to speak up, share ideas and try new things. We’re proud to be recognized as a “Best for Vets” employer by the Military Times and included on Fair360’s (formerly DiversityInc.) list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity. U.S. Bank, NA. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.