Principal Technologist, Resiliency & Availability

U.S. Bank; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

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 application teams to ensure capabilities meet evolving business needs and regulatory expectations.

The role demands articulation of risk, governance, and strategic investments. The position requires deep expertise across servers, storage, networking, databases, middleware, cloud, and mainframe, with a

Qualifications

• Fifteen plus years in infrastructure technology, architecture, engineering, platform services, resiliency, availability, cyber recovery, or data protection
• Broad experience across servers, storage, networking, databases, middleware, cloud, and mainframe
• Strong understanding of resiliency, recovery, and data protection concepts
• Experience influencing roadmaps and strategic investments
• Proven ability to develop executive communications and business cases

Responsibilities

• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of resiliency, availability, cyber recovery, DR, and data protection capabilities across Infrastructure Technology
• Assess capability maturity and identify opportunities to improve resilience and operational readiness
• Drive adoption of modern resiliency and availability capabilities
• Partner with architects, engineers, technology leaders, and application teams to evolve capabilities
• Identify capability gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities across infrastructure domains
• Influence strategic roadmaps and investment priorities to strengthen outcomes
• Develop business cases supporting resiliency investments
• Quantify business value, operational benefits, and risk reduction
• Create executive presentations and maturity assessments
• Translate complex capabilities for executive, business, audit, risk audiences
• Ensure evidence and documentation reflect implemented capabilities
• Drive accountability and remediation where gaps exist
• Collaborate with Corporate Risk, Audit Services, and regulators

Skills

Resiliency

Availability

Cyber recovery

Disaster recovery

Data protection

Servers

Storage

Networking

Databases

Mainframe

Cloud technologies

Executive communication

Strategic roadmaps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Job description

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 application teams to ensure capabilities meet evolving business needs and regulatory expectations.

The role demands articulation of risk, governance, and strategic investments. The position requires deep expertise across servers, storage, networking, databases, middleware, cloud, and mainframe, with a