Head of Digital Solutions Architecture

Company: US Bank
Location: Cupertino
Posted on: September 15, 2020

Job Description:

Job Description - Head of Digital Solutions Architecture (200011286)

Head of Digital Solutions Architecture - 200011286

At U.S. Bank, we're passionate about helping customers and the communities where we live and work. The fifth-largest bank in the United States, we’re one of the country's most respected, innovative and successful financial institutions. 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.

U.S. Bank is seeking a Head of Digital Solutions Architecture to lead a team that willserve as the technical liaison between US Bank development teams and theplatform teams that are enabling our Digital transformation and modernizationinitiatives. Digital Solutions Architecture supports our business informationofficers and platform owners plan and execute projects using best practicesfrom the industry and standards from within the company. Members of the teamprovide prototyping, reference design, white papers, documentation, and play akey role in capturing gaps and requirements to drive continuous improvement ofthe US Bank technology platforms.

Successful candidates will have deep technical knowledge and experiencein a leadership role overseeing similar initiatives or in an engineeringcapacity. Experience with the public cloud and/or working with large scalemicroservices platforms is a requirements. Candidates will have excellentcommunication and internal sales skills and be comfortable with advocating fora position and building consensus across a complex organization with many overlappingstakeholders.

U.S. Bank is passionate about supporting our customers as well as thecommunities where we live and work. The fifth-largest bank in the UnitedStates, we’re one of the country's most respected, innovative and successfulfinancial institutions. U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed tocreating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants withoutregard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation,gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership around our Digital Transformation initiatives by supportingteams who are developing new applications or upgrading existing applications andensuring that they are aligning their work with, and taking advantage of, ourcommon internal technology platforms.

Provideguidance and align execution with the strategy provided by Chief DigitalOfficer and our Technology CIOs as well as key stakeholders including senior engineeringleaders, Security, Enterprise Architecture, Risk, and platform teams includingCloud teams, DevOps teams, and API teams.

Support processes that enable teams to make tradeoffs across business,technology, organization, and finance constraints.

Participate in internal project capital reviews; help teams assesstradeoffs between cost, business impact, and technology strategy and representjudgement about the right strategy to senior leadership.

Identify gaps in our platform and capture specific use cases andrequirements to support our shared technology teams in identifying solutions tothese gaps as well as prioritizing the platform backlog.

Lead the team that develops reference designs, case studies, andprototype or templates to help developer organizations self-serve solutions totheir application design challenges.

Participate in and support teams during design reviews and financereviews.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalentwork experience

Minimum of 15 years of work experience in software development,solutions architecture, or technology/enterprise architecture.

Strong experience with the public cloud as a customer or representativeof one of the major cloud vendors.

Strong experience working with or for Fortune 500 companies.

Demonstrated ability to tackle tough design challenges, work with teamsfacing complex tradeoffs, and identify solutions that align with globalpriorities.

Ability to communicate complex technology problems to non-engineeringaudiences.

Preferred Qualifications

Experienceas a solution architect at a cloud vendor

Experienceas an architect or engineer on a large microservices team

Experiencewith the full lifecycle of a microservices implementation; includingexperiencing the long-term consequences of tradeoffs made during the designphase

Experience contributing to open source projects. Experiencing sitting onopen source committees or engaging in open source forums is a further plus.

Job Executive

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Applicants can learn more about the company’s status as an equal opportunity employer by viewing the federal “EEO is the Law” poster.

About U.S. Bank

Explore what’s possible with a career at U.S. Bank and join a company that’s as passionate as you are about helping our customers meet their goals and making a difference in the communities we live and work. Our industry-leading financial performance, innovative spirit and best-in-class reputation empower employees to succeed.

Learn more about what it’s like working at U.S. Bank, meet some of your could-be-future-colleagues, and follow us on social media by visiting usbank.com/careers .

Benefits

Take care of yourself and your family with U.S. Bank employee benefits. We know that healthy employees are happy employees, and we believe that work/life balance should be easy to achieve. That’s why we share the cost of benefits and offer a variety of programs, resources and support you need to bring your full self to work and stay present and committed to the people who matter most – your family.

Learn all about U.S. Bank employee benefits, including tuition reimbursement, retirement plans and more, by visiting usbank.com/careers .

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 .

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