Senior Resiliency & Availability Tech Leader

U.S. Bank; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) and employer-funded retirement

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

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

This role ensures capabilities across servers, storage, networking, databases, middleware, cloud, and mainframe remain effective and auditable. You will partner with architects, engineers, and business teams to drive strategic roadmaps, develop executive-ready materials, and quantify risk reduction and business value.

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.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the 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 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.

Skills

Resiliency

Availability

Cyber recovery

Data protection

Architecture

Engineering

Cloud

Mainframe

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Job description

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

This role ensures capabilities across servers, storage, networking, databases, middleware, cloud, and mainframe remain effective and auditable. You will partner with architects, engineers, and business teams to drive strategic roadmaps, develop executive-ready materials, and quantify risk reduction and business value.