Sr. Technology Architect

U.S. Bank; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Holiday pay

Adoption assistance

Parental leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank in Atlanta seeks a Senior Technology Architect to lead enterprise-wide payments and digital transaction platforms, shaping architecture standards and roadmaps.

You will mentor engineers, govern API/Microservices designs, and collaborate with product, security, and operations teams. The role emphasizes cloud modernization, high availability, and performance engineering across critical systems, with a focus on security and scalable integration with fintech partners and third-party

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years designing and implementing applications and related IT.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale architecture programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and governance of enterprise payment, gateway, and digital platforms.
• Develop scalable architectures for cloud modernization and API-first strategies.
• Set architecture standards, roadmaps, reference architectures, and best practices.
• Collaborate with business, product, security, and engineering teams to translate requirements.
• Provide technical leadership for complex integrations with vendors and fintech partners.
• Drive resiliency, availability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Evaluate new technologies and drive scalable, secure solutions.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Payments platforms

Merchant Services

Cloud Architecture

API/Microservices design

Security architecture

System integration

High availability

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

API governance

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

Job Description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Technology Architect with strategic analysis and enterprise-wide technology experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and governance of enterprise payment, gateway, and digital transaction platforms.
• Develop scalable solution architectures supporting cloud modernization, API-first strategies, and distributed systems.
• Define architecture standards, technology roadmaps, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with business, product, security, and engineering teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for complex integrations across internal platforms, third-party vendors, fintech partners, and payment networks.
• Drive application resiliency, high availability, performance optimization, and operational excellence across critical systems.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions that improve scalability, automation, security, and customer experience.
• Mentor engineers and architects while influencing strategic technology decisions across multiple portfolios and initiatives.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• At least 10 years experience with the concepts, philosophies and tools behind the design of applications, information and underlying information technologies.
• At least 10 years experience with developing and implementing applications.

Preferred Skills/Experience

Enterprise Architecture experience designing large-scale, mission-critical technology platforms. Strong expertise in Payments, Merchant Services, Payment Gateways, or high-volume transaction processing systems. Deep knowledge of Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP), cloud-native design patterns, and container-based platforms. Experience designing and governing API, Microservices, and Event-Driven Architectures. Strong understanding of Security Architecture, authentication, authorization, encryption, and risk management principles. Expertise with System Integration, third-party vendor connectivity, and enterprise service platforms. Experience with High Availability, disaster recovery, observability, performance engineering, and reliability practices. Excellent Technical Leadership, stakeholder management, solution consulting, and architecture governance skills.

Location expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
• Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures. Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

Elavon is wholly-owned by U.S. Bank, which just happens to be one of the world’s most ethical companies. Whichever part of the company you join, you’ll soon see that we help our customers and communities thrive. And we’ll do the same for you, too. From day one, you’ll find ample opportunities to grow. A variety of projects to work on. A host of new skills to learn. And you’ll be surrounded by people who’ve got your back, and who’ll do everything they can to make sure you’re happy and fulfilled.