U.S. Bank

Principal Solutions Architect - Investment Services Portfolio

United States · Work style not stated · Full time

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  • EmployerU.S. Bank
  • LocationUnited States
  • Work styleWork style not stated
  • Employment typeFull time
  • Employer posted

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

The Principal Solution Architect leads technology architecture strategy for the Investment Services Portfolio, a large WCIB portfolio serving institutional clients in a high-volume, highly regulated environment. This role owns the target-state architecture, multi-year roadmap, modernization strategy, and portfolio governance. It serves as a senior advisor to business and technology leaders, influencing investment priorities and architecture decisions while leading architects and translating business strategy into scalable, secure, resilient technology direction.

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Key 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.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
  • Eight or more years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Ten or more years in software engineering, solution or enterprise architecture, platform architecture, or technology strategy.
  • Five or more 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.

Location Expectation

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location, listed in the posting, 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:

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.

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.

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: $159,970.00 - $188,200.00

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 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.

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