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Job Description

Head of Enterprise Architecture

The Enterprise Architect Leader is responsible for designing, maintaining, and evolving the bank’s enterprise architecture strategy to align technology investments with business goals and ensuring the enterprise-wide technology architecture to support digital banking transformation, regulatory compliance, and customer-centric innovation. This role ensures that IT systems and infrastructure align with the strategic goals of the bank, enabling secure, scalable, and efficient banking operations.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Strategic Architecture Leadership:
  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive enterprise architecture strategy aligned with banking business objectives.
  • Modernize the architecture practices, methods and digitize the architectural processes within the organization.
  • Develop the framework for reference architectures, patterns and best practices to enable rapid solution delivery.
• Technology Governance & Compliance:
  • Ensure architectural compliance with financial regulations (e.g., FFIEC, PCI-DSS, GDPR).
  • Establish and enforce architecture standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Partner with business units, risk management, and compliance teams to align technology with operational needs.
  • Facilitate architecture review boards and guide solution architects across banking domains (e.g., retail, commercial, payments).
• Innovation & Emerging Technologies:
  • Evaluate and implement emerging technologies such as AI/ML in fraud detection, blockchain for secure transactions, and cloud-native banking solutions.
  • Drive innovation in areas like open banking, API ecosystems, and real-time payments.
• Team Leadership & Development:
  • Lead a team of enterprise and solution architects, fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Shape the Operations Digital priorities: in partnership with Operations leaders define the roadmap and program to drive digital maturity across products.
• Data & experience-first leadership: Lead with data insights and a CX/EX mindset to reimagine client journeys, improve client experience, and drive DIY/DIT adoption.
• Digital Servicing: Deliver on inflight initiatives and demonstrate measurable impact.
• High Performance Team Leadership: Manage a team of talented product managers/owners driven to gain a deep understanding of merchants and partners to generate new ideas on solutions to drive growth.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with operations, marketing, engineering, UX/UI design risk and customer support teams to deliver exceptional product experiences and accelerate product adoption.
• KPI Monitoring: Define, analyze, and communicate key metrics and business trends to stakeholders. Ensure alignment of product enhancements with business goals.
• Executive & Stakeholder Communication: Ensure alignment with internal and external stakeholders by regularly communicating product plans, benefits, and results. Effectively present to Senior executives on product strategy, update on progress and performance.
• The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days
• Travel typically up to 10%. Could be 25% at times. Always domestic

Qualifications

• Servant leader / team player adept in cross-organizational collaborations
• An enterprise architect who is successful and fluid in working with application architects
• Proven success in demonstration of applied execution
• Depth of experience in digitizing Agile Architecture; e.g. adding agility to architecture
• In related role minimum of 5-6 years
• Proven success in working and leading on cutting to bleeding edge of Agile
• Adept in their understanding of the practice of enterprise architecture
• Successful in use of key technologies to digitize and “architecturalize”
• Career track which includes a background in engineering / application development, working in architecture as a practitioner, management of a team and a formal enterprise architecture position
• Rich experiences in industries such as banking or other regulated industries (e.g. pharmaceutical, healthcare) and/or “Big Four” consultancy experience
• Full stack team / hands-on and leadership experience in Java, Node, C++, Python environments, database or middleware, UX
• Ability to excel in performing and leading in an environment of high expectations
• Clear and genuine passion, energy and enthusiasm for the work; readiness to enhance capabilities
• Confidently collaborative without arrogance; ability to put others first, stay a step ahead and do the right thing
• Cannot have thin skin
• Background in building an enterprise architecture from scratch vs having inherited the work

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher degree
• Adept in working with LeanIX, EAW (Service Now), ardoq, or Ins-pi

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: $214,795.00 - $252,700.00

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.