Senior Solutions Architect - Cloud, Data & Platforms

Us Bank; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect to bridge business strategy with technology execution across WCIB. You will define current- and target-state architectures, develop roadmaps, and provide hands-on leadership for complex initiatives spanning applications, data, and platforms.

You will partner with business, product, engineering, security, risk, and architecture teams to advance modernization while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and compliant with regulatory expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Eight or more years of related experience.
• Eight or more years in solution, enterprise, platform, or portfolio architecture.
• Experience with Azure or AWS and cloud-native or hybrid architectures.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and explain complex technology decisions to business, executive, and technical audiences.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.

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.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder influence

DevOps

TOGAF

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect to bridge business strategy with technology execution across WCIB. You will define current- and target-state architectures, develop roadmaps, and provide hands-on leadership for complex initiatives spanning applications, data, and platforms.

You will partner with business, product, engineering, security, risk, and architecture teams to advance modernization while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and compliant with regulatory expectations.