Principal Resiliency & Availability Technologist

U.S. Bank

Irving (TX)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 200,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation

Up to 11 paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Principal Technologist - Resiliency & Availability to lead enterprise resiliency, recovery, and data protection initiatives.

You will partner with architects, engineers, and business teams to define capabilities, validate readiness, and drive improvements across servers, storage, networks, databases, middleware, and cloud services. You will develop executive-level strategies, business cases, and roadmaps, translating complex technical concepts into clear content for risk,

Qualifications

15+ years of experience in infrastructure technology, architecture, engineering, platform services, resiliency, availability, cyber recovery, data protection
Extensive experience in infrastructure technology, architecture, engineering, platform services
Broad technical expertise spanning servers, storage, networking, databases, middleware, cloud, platform services, and mainframe technologies
Strong understanding of resiliency, availability, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and data protection concepts
Experience assessing technology capabilities, identifying improvement opportunities, and influencing strategic roadmaps
Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes and drive organizational change without direct authority
Experience developing executive communications, strategy documents, business cases, presentations, and technical narratives
Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills with ability to communicate across technical and non-technical audiences
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills

Responsibilities

Maintain a comprehensive understanding of resiliency, availability, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, and data protection capabilities across Infrastructure Technology.
Assess capability maturity and identify opportunities to improve resilience, recoverability, operational readiness, and customer outcomes.
Drive adoption of modern, best-in-class resiliency, recovery, and availability capabilities.
Partner with architects, engineers, technology leaders, and application teams to evolve capabilities as technologies, threats, customer expectations, and business requirements change.
Identify capability gaps, operational weaknesses, emerging risks, and improvement opportunities across infrastructure domains.
Influence strategic roadmaps and investment priorities that strengthen resiliency and recovery outcomes.
Develop business cases supporting resiliency, availability, cyber recovery, and data protection investments.
Quantify business value, operational benefits, customer impact, and risk reduction associated with improvement initiatives.
Create executive presentations, strategy documents, maturity assessments, capability guides, standards mappings, and supporting documentation.
Translate complex technical capabilities into clear, consumable content for executive, business, audit, risk, and regulatory audiences.
Serve as the primary authority for explaining current-state capabilities, planned improvements, operational effectiveness, and recovery readiness.
Challenge technology domains to demonstrate capabilities are operating as designed and achieving outcomes.
Validate capabilities against documented recovery objectives, resiliency standards, business requirements, and expected outcomes.
Ensure evidence, documentation, and supporting materials reflect implemented capabilities and operational reality.
Drive accountability and remediation when gaps, weaknesses, or risks are identified.
Partner with Corporate Risk, Audit Services, and regulatory organizations to support reviews and oversight activities.