Sr. Technology Architect

About the role

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. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

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.

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.

Skills

• 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.

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