Lead Solutions Architect - WCIB Portfolio

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

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

The Lead Solutions Architect connects business strategy with technology execution across the Wealth, Commercial, and Institutional Banking (WCIB) portfolio. This role defines current- and target-state architecture, develops technology roadmaps, and provides hands-on architecture leadership for complex initiatives spanning applications, integrations, data, and platforms. The architect partners with business, product, engineering, and enterprise architecture teams to advance modernization while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards and regulatory expectations.

Key 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.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Eighteen or more years in solution, enterprise, platform, or portfolio architecture.
• Strong SDLC knowledge and experience evaluating complex solutions against architecture and nonfunctional requirements.
• Experience designing scalable, secure, resilient systems using modern integration and distributed-architecture patterns.
• Experience with Azure or AWS, cloud-native or hybrid architectures, and modernization.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and explain complex technology decisions to business, executive, and technical audiences.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience supporting multiple products, platforms, systems, or customer groups from a portfolio perspective.
• Knowledge of architecture governance, security and regulatory risk, total cost of ownership, and ROI.
• Working knowledge of data platforms, AI/ML, AI-assisted development, and their architectural implications.
• Familiarity with platform engineering, digital assets or tokenization, and frameworks such as TOGAF or ITIL.

Location Expectation

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location, listed in the posting, three (3) or more days per week. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

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The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

Pay Range: $139,230.00 - $163,800.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment.

U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA).

In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.