Principal Solutions Architect (Enterprise Platforms & Technology Strategy)

Job Description

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 translate strategic priorities into executable technology architectures.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the product and solution lifecycle, conducting architecture reviews and ensuring adherence to enterprise standards and best practices.
• Experience within Banking, Financial Services, Payments, or Wealth Management environments preferred.
• Cloud architecture experience with Azure, AWS, hybrid cloud, and enterprise platform modernization initiatives preferred.

Basic Qualifications

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

Skills & Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Enterprise Architecture, technology strategy, and large-scale enterprise solution design within complex organizations.
• Hands-on experience with Enterprise Architecture tools such as LeanIX, Ardoq, or equivalent architecture repositories and modeling platforms.
• Strong knowledge of architecture frameworks including TOGAF, ITIL, COBIT, Zachman, and modeling approaches such as ArchiMate, UML, and C4.
• Proven ability to design modern application, platform, infrastructure, and integration architectures across hybrid environments.
• Experience implementing technology governance, risk management, privacy, security, and compliance controls within enterprise environments.
• Strong background in software engineering and solution delivery, including prior experience as a senior engineer or technical lead.
• Expertise designing resilient, scalable, highly available application and infrastructure platforms, including cloud-native and distributed architectures.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to influence executive and technical audiences.

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

• 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.

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