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Job Description

U.S. Bank is seeking the position of Principal Solutions Architect in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Essential Responsibilities:

This is position is a technology executive who operates as a C-level advisory on large and highly complex initiatives worth tens to hundreds of millions of dollars with high impact to the enterprise, our partners and our customers. Provides architectural guidance and develops strategies and roadmaps to align with the bank’s key Product areas critical to the business. Works across the organization to foster a culture of architecture that allows for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. As part of delivering architecture strategies, this role determines the Return-on-Investment for specific engineering initiatives, establishes engineering strategic objectives, promotes use of enterprise shared services and reviews exceptions, reviews root cause analysis for key incidents and drives response across the engineering organization, drives the organizational testing strategy and uses quality metrics to identify gaps, works with the security team to set and refine organization-wide security strategy, ensures expectations across the organization and external stakeholders are clarified between all parties involved, identifies dependencies and works with individual teams to resolve them, coaches the team on making trade-offs, prioritization and managing technical debt, identifies and manages technical and business risk, leads MBRs (monthly business reviews) with CIOs and CIO teams, creates enterprise-wide strategies, implements architecture governance via project risk reviews and technology assessments, drives cloud migration and application modernization including defining and reviewing cloud migration blueprints, controls and target state architectures, understands and applying BIAN business reference models, defines and creates business capability maps, identifies portfolio health and opportunities including obsolescence, risks, vendor exposure and external facing vulnerabilities. This is a highly influential role with high visibility for the aligned CIO but also across the organization interfacing with Risk, Security and Regulatory teams. Telecommuting available anywhere in U.S.

Basic Qualifications:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science plus 5 years of experience as an Enterprise Architect, IT Solution Architect, Application Developer or related technical role.

Required Skills/Experience:
Must possess 5 years of experience in each of the following: providing CIO advisory; driving and influencing CIOs by setting technology vision, strategy and roadmap in-line with business strategy; leading portfolio reviews and assessments with CIO teams; conducting technology assessments as a part of annual budget process to drive tech modernization; driving enterprise-wide strategy of reusable domain canonical models and platforms; driving and leading application rationalization and technology debt tracking; leading RFP sessions with external vendors and influence decision making based on technology strategy; creating reference architectures; influencing strategy and roadmaps for top initiatives; strategy and roadmap development; enterprise architecture; delivery of digital solutions using agile methodologies; consumer and retail business banking, lending domain experience; Java; CSS; Microservices; MQ; AWS; Azure; SpringBoot, RDBMS, Integrations, ETL, Maven, Jenkins, CI/CD, Kafka, Cloud Native Services in AWS, and GCP. Telecommuting available anywhere in the U.S. Company headquarters located at 800 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55402. Base pay range may vary if an offer is made for work in a different location. Pay Range: $112,154 - $213,500.

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 (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

• 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

EEO is the Law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors. Applicants can learn more about the company’s status as an equal opportunity employer by viewing the federal KNOW YOUR RIGHTS EEO poster.

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.