Lead Solutions Architect - Cloud & Modernization Leader

U.S. Bank; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 139,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) and retirement plan

Paid vacation

11 paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect to bridge business strategy with technology execution across WCIB—wealth, commercial, and institutional banking.

You will define current and future architectures, roadmaps, and provide hands-on leadership for complex initiatives spanning applications, data, and platforms. You will partner with business, product, engineering, security and risk teams to advance modernization while ensuring scalable, secure, and compliant solutions that align with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Eight or more years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain current- and target-state architecture and roadmaps.
• Lead solution architecture for complex applications, integrations, data, cloud, and infrastructure initiatives.
• Evaluate solutions for scalability, security, performance, resiliency, operability, and alignment with standards.
• Guide cross-product architecture decisions to improve reuse and interoperability.
• Drive modernization through cloud adoption, application rationalization, and DevOps.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails for APIs, microservices, events, and distributed systems.
• Translate priorities into executable technology plans with business and engineering partners.
• Communicate roadmaps, diagrams, reviews, and executive decisions.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder influence

Solution architecture

Security & compliance

DevOps / CI-CD

Regulatory alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect to bridge business strategy with technology execution across WCIB—wealth, commercial, and institutional banking.

You will define current and future architectures, roadmaps, and provide hands-on leadership for complex initiatives spanning applications, data, and platforms. You will partner with business, product, engineering, security and risk teams to advance modernization while ensuring scalable, secure, and compliant solutions that align with