Senior Solutions Architect — FinTech & Cloud Strategy

Us Bank; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Parental leave

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to lead technology architecture for the Investment Services Portfolio, shaping target-state architecture, multi-year modernization, and governance across high-volume, regulated environments.

You will translate business strategy into technology priorities, oversee complex initiatives across cloud, data, and platforms, and mentor architects to align teams with enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Eight or more years of relevant experience.
• Ten or more years in software engineering, solution or enterprise architecture, platform architecture, or technology strategy.
• Five+ years leading architecture for complex portfolios, business domains, platforms, or interconnected systems.
• Experience defining target-state architectures and multi-year modernization roadmaps while influencing senior leaders on investment tradeoffs.
• Strong knowledge of the software development life cycle, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, integration, and cloud.
• Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring architects and aligning teams through influence.
• Ability to explain complex architecture decisions to executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Architecture team leadership or formal people-management experience.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, hybrid or multi-cloud platforms, cloud-native services, and large-scale transformation.
• Knowledge of enterprise portfolio planning, financial management, and technology investment.
• Working knowledge of modern data platforms, analytics, AI/ML, intelligent automation, and AI-enabled development.
• Familiarity with digital assets, tokenization, or other emerging financial technologies.
• Knowledge of TOGAF, BIAN, Zachman, or relevant architecture and cloud certifications.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the portfolio architecture strategy, target state, and multi-year technology roadmap.
• Translate business strategy, enterprise direction, regulatory needs, and emerging opportunities into technology priorities and investment recommendations.
• Lead portfolio architecture governance to drive consistency, reuse, interoperability, resiliency, and enterprise alignment.
• Oversee architecture for complex, high-risk initiatives across applications, platforms, data, integration, cloud, and emerging technologies.
• Lead modernization across cloud, application rationalization, platforms, technical debt, DevOps, and platform engineering.
• Identify systemic architecture risks and balance business outcomes, cost, speed, risk, and long-term sustainability.
• Align application, platform, data, and AI strategies with security, privacy, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish reusable patterns and guardrails that accelerate delivery while maintaining quality and compliance.
• Advise senior leaders through architecture reviews, strategic planning, roadmaps, and clear communication of tradeoffs.
• Lead and mentor architects, including one direct report, while influencing strategy across the broader organization.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Executive communication

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure

AWS

Cloud platforms

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to lead technology architecture for the Investment Services Portfolio, shaping target-state architecture, multi-year modernization, and governance across high-volume, regulated environments.

You will translate business strategy into technology priorities, oversee complex initiatives across cloud, data, and platforms, and mentor architects to align teams with enterprise goals.