Senior Business Solution 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 at—all from Day One.

Job Description

The Senior Business Solution Architect is responsible for designing and validating enterprise-scale data and AI solutions across AWS, Snowflake, and Azure. This role goes beyond conceptual architecture — requiring active involvement in engineering prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and reference implementations to ensure designs are practical, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.

The role will shape solution strategy, create decision frameworks and partner with Enterprise Architects and domain-specific architects to socialize designs and gain alignment before transitioning to delivery teams. A critical aspect of this role is embedding security principles such as RBAC, validating implemented solutions against approved designs to prevent drift, and establishing feedback loops for continuous improvement.

Success demands innovation, influence, and adaptability — anticipating technology evolution, driving modernization initiatives, and designing reusable patterns for data products, data platforms, data lakes, business analytics, and Generative AI applications. This position also requires a strong understanding of DevSecOps principles to ensure security, compliance, and automation are integrated into every design decision. Continuous learning and collaboration across architecture communities are key to success.

U.S. Bank is seeking a seasoned Business Intel Architect with business intelligence applications experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives. Provides technical leadership on establishing standards and best practices to install, configure, and use business intelligence applications for the decision support environment. Oversees complex data modeling and advanced project metadata development. Ensures that business rules are applied consistently across the different user interfaces. Develops design specifications and standards for semantic layers and multi-dimensional models for complex Business Intelligence projects across all environments. Consults on training and usage for the business community. Provides support to business users and Business Intelligence developers. Sets and enforces Business Intelligence standards and architecture. Aligns Business Intelligence architecture with enterprise architecture. Selects appropriate Business Intelligence tools, features, and techniques. Creates and updates load processes for complex data models.

Successful applicants will exemplify US Bank's ethical principles of uncompromising integrity, respect for others, accountability for decisions and actions, and good citizenship.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Define end-to-end architectures for data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and consumption across AWS, Snowflake, and Azure.

• Establish reusable, scalable, cost-effective patterns (batch/streaming, lakehouse, semantic layers, APIs) that serve multiple data products.

• Translate business outcomes into designs that meet performance, resiliency, security, and cost objectives.

• Develop Decision Architecture Review (DAR) matrices with clear options, trade-offs, and recommendations for executive decision-making.

• Design solution architectures for Generative AI applications leveraging modernized platforms (AWS, Snowflake, Azure).

• Incorporate DevSecOps principles into architecture for secure, automated deployments and compliance by design.

Hands-On Engineering & Validation

• Build proofs-of-concept (POCs) and reference implementations to de-risk designs and validate feasibility.

• Contribute code/configuration (e.g., Python, SQL, orchestration/ELT) and perform performance tuning for large-scale workloads.

• Validate implemented solutions against approved designs, identify drift, and drive corrective actions.

Collaboration & Influence

• Partner with Enterprise Architects and domain Solution Architects to socialize designs and ensure alignment with standards and roadmaps.

• Communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, influence adoption of best practices and reusable patterns.

• Provide architectural guidance to engineering leads during delivery, ensuring scope, timeline, and quality remain aligned with the design.

Governance, Security & Access

• Embed Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), encryption, key management, and secure data sharing into architecture as first principles.

• Ensure solutions comply with data governance, privacy, and audit requirements, support architecture reviews and control checkpoints.

• Apply DevSecOps best practices for secure CI/CD pipelines, vulnerability scanning, and automated compliance checks.

Continuous Improvement & Learning

• Establish feedback loops (post-implementation reviews, architecture retros) to improve standards and patterns.

• Introduce process enhancements that reduce complexity, improve scalability, and accelerate delivery.

• Commit to continuous learning of evolving cloud, data, AI, and security technologies, share learnings across the architecture community.

Innovation & Thought Leadership

• Evaluate emerging technologies and the modern data stack; lead experiments and convert proven approaches into platform enhancements.

• Advocate for modernization initiatives and influence platform/architecture roadmaps with data-driven insights.

• Mentor engineers and architects; elevate architectural craftsmanship across teams.

Basic Qualifications

-Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
-At least 10 years experience within a total information technology (IT) environment.
-At least 9 years experience with BI applications; decision support systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing, statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.
-At least 3 years experience with business intelligence design and architecture.

Preferred Skills/Experience

Working experience in :
-Computer operations
-IT systems management

Extensive experience in :
-Information security management
-Application development tools

Subject matter expert in:
-Technical/financial knowledge
-Application design and architecture
-Application delivery process
-Information management
-IT environment

Location Expectations

This role is hybrid. Team members who are in a hybrid role typically spend three days a week at the listed U.S. Bank location(s), while having flexibility on their work location for the other working days.

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

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: $133,365.00 - $156,900.00

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.