Principal Solutions Architect (Enterprise Platforms & Technology Strategy)

About the role

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. U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Enterprise Technology Architect to define, lead, and evolve our enterprise-wide Technology architecture strategy. As a member of the Enterprise Architecture team, this role closely partners with the business and the other members of the technology organization to design modern, resilient, and secure technology ecosystems and platforms that align with business objectives. The ideal candidate will have a blend of strategic and technical thinking, solving the most complex enterprise technology problems with enterprise grade solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise technology architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technology roadmaps, and modernization initiatives.
• Establish and drive enterprise architecture practices, standards, and reference architectures across federated architecture and engineering teams.
• Leverage Enterprise Architecture platforms (e.g., LeanIX, Ardoq) to maintain architecture visibility, governance, and decision-making processes.
• Design and govern enterprise-wide technology ecosystems, integration patterns, and platform strategies across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
• Lead the architecture of scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing technology solutions that support enterprise growth and operational excellence.
• Define and enforce technology governance, architecture review processes, compliance controls, security standards, and quality frameworks.
• Partner with business, product, engineering, data, security, and infrastructure leaders to