AI & Data Technology Architect

Us Bank; Irving (TX); 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)

Paid vacation

Up to 11 paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick and Safe Leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank in Irving, TX is seeking a Technology Architect to shape enterprise architectures, technology strategies, and roadmaps.

You will translate business needs into scalable designs, lead cross-functional teams, and ensure alignment with security and regulatory requirements. This role requires deep experience with AI-powered solutions, API-driven and event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and non-functional requirements.

Qualifications

• 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, event-driven systems, messaging platforms, microservices, and cloud-native design principles.
• Experience designing batch and real-time data pipelines, data products, analytics platforms, and modern data architectures.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata management, lineage, privacy controls, and access management.
• Expertise defining non-functional requirements (NFRs) including resiliency, availability, scalability, security, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Proven ability to create solution design documents, architecture decision records (ADRs), system integration diagrams, and data flow models.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering teams, product leaders, and executive stakeholders on architecture decisions and trade-offs.

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 Design

LLMs

AI Agents

RAG architectures

Copilots

Generative AI

API-driven architectures

Event-driven systems

Microservices

Cloud-native design

Data pipelines (batch & real-time)

Data governance concepts

Non-functional requirements (NFRs)

ADR / architecture docs

System diagrams / data flow models

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

U.S. Bank in Irving, TX is seeking a Technology Architect to shape enterprise architectures, technology strategies, and roadmaps.

You will translate business needs into scalable designs, lead cross-functional teams, and ensure alignment with security and regulatory requirements. This role requires deep experience with AI-powered solutions, API-driven and event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and non-functional requirements.