AI & Data Architecture Lead

U.S. Bank; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical,dental,vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k) and retirement plan

Paid vacation

11 paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank seeks a Technology Architect to lead end-to-end solution designs across core banking, data and AI capabilities. You will translate business needs into scalable, integrated designs and align with architecture standards while collaborating with product, engineering and enterprise teams.

Required 10+ years in software architecture, with hands-on experience in AI-powered solutions and cloud-native data platforms. This hybrid role expects on-site presence at a U.S.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Distributed Systems

AI-powered solutions

LLMs / Generative AI

APIs & event-driven

Cloud-native design

Data pipelines

Non-functional requirements

ADR / architecture docs

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

None

Job description

U.S. Bank seeks a Technology Architect to lead end-to-end solution designs across core banking, data and AI capabilities. You will translate business needs into scalable, integrated designs and align with architecture standards while collaborating with product, engineering and enterprise teams.

Required 10+ years in software architecture, with hands-on experience in AI-powered solutions and cloud-native data platforms. This hybrid role expects on-site presence at a U.S.