Principal Resiliency & Recovery Technologist

U.S. Bank

Minneapolis (MN)

Hybrid

USD 170,000 - 200,000

Full time

5 hours ago

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Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Principal Technologist for Resiliency & Availability to serve as the Infrastructure Technology authority on resiliency, recovery, data protection, and availability across servers, storage, networks, databases, middleware, cloud, and mainframe.

This role collaborates with architects, engineers, and business teams to ensure reliable, recoverable systems and strong operational readiness.

Qualifications

15+ years of experience in infrastructure technology, architecture, engineering, platform services, resiliency, availability, cyber recovery, data protection, or related disciplines.
Extensive experience in infrastructure technology, architecture, engineering, platform services, or related disciplines.
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.

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 that capabilities are operating as designed and achieving intended outcomes.
Validate capabilities against documented recovery objectives, resiliency standards, business requirements, and expected outcomes.
Ensure evidence, documentation, and supporting materials accurately reflect implemented capabilities and operational reality.
Drive accountability and remediation efforts when capability gaps, weaknesses, or risks are identified.
Partner with Corporate Risk, Audit Services, and regulatory organizations to support reviews, examinations, and ongoing oversight activities.