Technology Architect (AI & Data)

U.S. Bank; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Technology Architect to lead end-to-end solution design across enterprise systems, data, and AI. You will shape architecture decisions, drive scalable designs, and ensure security and resiliency while aligning with product and engineering teams.

The role focuses on API-led and event-driven architectures, cloud platforms, and reusable patterns, with emphasis on enterprise integration and forward-looking strategy. The position requires on-site presence at a U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent work experience required.
• At least 10 years developing and implementing applications and related technologies.
• Experience with architecture concepts and design tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution design across systems, data, integration, and AI.
• Translate business needs into clear, scalable designs and blueprints.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and architecture teams for alignment.
• Define non-functional requirements like resiliency, performance, and security.
• Own architecture strategy and drive trade-offs with stakeholders.
• Develop reference architectures and reusable patterns for adoption.
• Evaluate technologies ensuring alignment with enterprise platforms.
• Identify dependencies, risks, and integration complexity early.
• Contribute to product and platform roadmaps for scalability.

Skills

End-to-end design

AI/ML architecture

Cloud architecture

API-led integration

Security design

High-availability design

Data platforms

UI architecture

Stakeholder collaboration

Enterprise integration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

10+ years in applications development/architecture

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure Synapse

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 and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. 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 at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

Role Summary

The Technology Architect leads end-to-end solution design , shaping early architectural decisions and ensuring solutions are built for scale, resiliency, security, and long-term sustainability. This role partners closely with product, engineering, data, infrastructure, and architecture teams to deliver integrated, business-aligned outcomes across enterprise systems, data, and AI .

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution design , defining architecture across systems, data, integration, infrastructure, and AI capabilities.

• Translate business requirements into clear, scalable, and integrated solution designs , avoiding siloed implementations.

• Collaborate with product owners, engineering teams, and enterprise architects to ensure alignment with architecture standards and frameworks .

• Define and drive non-functional requirements , including resiliency, performance, scalability, security, and failure handling.

• Own solution design strategy across initiatives, partnering with architects and senior stakeholders on architectural direction and trade-offs .

• Develop reference architecture, reusable patterns, and blueprints , and validate designs early through solution shaping and technical validation.

• Evaluate technologies and vendor solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise platforms and strategic direction .

• Maintain a forward-looking architectural view , identifying dependencies, risks, and integration complexity early.

• Contribute to product and platform roadmaps , ensuring solutions support scalability, reuse, and long-term growth.

Core Skills & Experience

AI, ML & Infrastructure

• Understanding of AI/ML architecture and integration patterns , including ML models, LLMs, inference, agents, and AI-enabled applications.

• Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications, data platforms, and business workflows .

• Familiarity with AI/ML deployment and infrastructure patterns , including managed platforms such as Snowflake ML, containerized deployment on EKS/AKS, and GPU-based workloads.

• Ability to work with engineering teams to shape secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective AI solutions .

Enterprise Systems & Domain Knowledge

• Understanding of core transactional systems and enterprise platforms across areas such as payments, customer/account systems, authentication, and servicing .

Integration & System Architecture

• Experience designing API-led and event-driven architectures , including REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming.

• Knowledge of distributed systems, orchestration, and cloud-based integration patterns .

Data Platforms & Data Architecture

• Experience with modern data architecture , including data mesh and domain-driven data products.

• Familiarity with cloud-based data and analytics platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, or equivalent .

Resiliency & Non-Functional Design

• Strong focus on high-availability architectures , failover strategies, scalability, performance, and operational readiness.

Experience & UI Architecture

• Familiarity with modern UI frameworks and API-driven experience architectures .

• Understanding of user experience integration with backend systems.

Security, Risk & Compliance

Knowledge of identity and access management, data protection, and secure design practices in regulated environments.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

• At least 10 years experience with developing and implementing applications.

• At least 10 years experience with the concepts, philosophies and tools behind the design of applications, information and underlying information technologies.

Additional Preferred Skills

• Experience validating architecture using APIs, data platforms, infrastructure, and AI components to establish feasibility and alignment with design intent.

• Ability to create and promote reusable design patterns that accelerate delivery across teams.

This role offers the opportunity to shape enterprise-scale architecture, drive innovation across AI and data, and influence the design of next-generation digital platforms.

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 (https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/disability-accommodations-for-applicants) .

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• 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 (https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/benefits/us) .

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.

E-Verify

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 (https://careers.usbank.com/verification-of-eligibility-for-employment) .

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $119,765.00 - $140,900.00

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