Software Architect
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 atall from Day One.
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor high-performing software engineers and architects, supporting technical growth, career development, and engineering excellence.
Define and execute architecture strategy, technology roadmaps, and modernization initiatives for credit card processing platforms.
Drive transformation of legacy/mainframe-based payment systems to cloud-native, microservices-based architectures.
Establish architecture standards, governance practices, solution review processes, and engineering best practices.
Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and Risk teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant payment solutions.
Lead multiple Agile Scrum teams, ensuring alignment of priorities, execution, and delivery of business value.
Guide solution architecture decisions, API strategies, integration patterns, observability, and reliability engineering practices.
Champion DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, cloud adoption, and engineering operational excellence.
Manage technical risks, platform resiliency, security requirements, and regulatory compliance for payment systems.
Influence cross-functional stakeholders and senior leadership on technology investments, modernization strategies, and architectural direction.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
Six to eight years of relevant technical experience
Five or more years of leading a software engineering team
Preferred Skills/Experience
Engineering leadership experience managing technical teams.
Experience leading architecture, engineering strategy, and large-scale technology delivery initiatives.
Strong experience delivering complex enterprise applications in Agile environments.
Credit card processing, payments, transaction processing, authorization, clearing, settlement, or issuer platforms.
Mainframe modernization experience, including migration of legacy applications to cloud-native solutions. Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud migration strategies.
Microservices architecture, API design, event-driven systems, and distributed applications. Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, OpenShift, containerization, and modern application frameworks.
Enterprise architecture governance, solution design, platform engineering, and technical roadmapping. DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, observability, monitoring, resiliency, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
Experience building and leading teams transitioning from mainframe technologies to cloud-based architectures.
Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, engineering delivery practices, and technology transformation programs.
Exceptional leadership, stakeholder management, communication, coaching, and organizational influence skills.
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.
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: $126,820.00 - $149,200.00