Lead Solutions Architect: Cloud, Data & API Strategy

Usbank; Hopkins (MN); On-site; USD 139,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect to bridge business strategy with technology execution across WCIB portfolios.

You will define current and target-state architectures, create technology roadmaps, and lead hands-on architecture for complex initiatives covering applications, data, integrations, and platforms. You will partner with business, product, engineering, security, risk, and enterprise architecture teams to modernize while ensuring scalable, secure, and compliant solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required.
• Eight or more years of related architecture experience preferred.
• Eight or more years in solution, enterprise, platform, or portfolio architecture preferred.
• Experience with Azure or AWS and cloud-native or hybrid architectures preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain current- and target-state architecture and technology roadmaps aligned with business and enterprise priorities.
• Lead solution architecture for complex applications, integration, data, cloud, and infrastructure initiatives.
• Evaluate solutions for scalability, security, performance, resiliency, operability, and alignment with architecture standards.
• Guide cross-product architecture decisions to improve consistency, reuse, interoperability, and regulatory alignment.
• Drive modernization through cloud adoption, application rationalization, platform consolidation, debt reduction, DevOps, and CI/CD.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails for APIs, microservices, events, and distributed systems.
• Translate strategic priorities into executable technology plans with business, product, engineering, security, risk, and architecture partners.
• Communicate decisions and tradeoffs through roadmaps, diagrams, reviews, documentation, and executive presentations.
• Guide solution and product architects and embed data and AI considerations early in solution design.

Skills

Architecture experience

SDLC knowledge

System design

Azure/AWS

Stakeholder influence

Financial services experience

Portfolio management

Architecture governance

Data/AI familiarity

TOGAF/ITIL familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect to bridge business strategy with technology execution across WCIB portfolios.

You will define current and target-state architectures, create technology roadmaps, and lead hands-on architecture for complex initiatives covering applications, data, integrations, and platforms. You will partner with business, product, engineering, security, risk, and enterprise architecture teams to modernize while ensuring scalable, secure, and compliant solutions