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U.S. Bank is seeking an Emerging Technology Solutions Architect to evaluate and guide adoption of new AI-driven technologies across the enterprise. This role focuses on identifying emerging capabilities, assessing enterprise fit, and shaping scalable solutions that enable innovation while aligning to enterprise standards.

There are two (2) open roles, with potential focus areas including generative AI, agentic AI, and emerging machine learning capabilities. Individuals hired into this posting may be aligned to a specific focus area based on experience and business need.

This role partners across platform engineering, developer experience, and risk/security teams to evaluate technologies, define architecture patterns, and enable implementation through strong technical guidance.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging technologies such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, MCP gateway solutions, and AI developer tooling ecosystems for enterprise adoption
• Assess AI platforms and services including Azure OpenAI, AWS AI/ML services, and other LLM-based solutions
• Recommend architecture patterns based on cost, scalability, security, and risk tradeoffs
• Define reusable solution patterns and integration approaches (e.g., APIs, service-based architectures, and MCP or similar orchestration patterns)
• Design and recommend solutions with sufficient technical depth to support downstream engineering teams through implementation
• Evaluate vendor tools and ecosystem offerings for enterprise fit and long-term viability
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Assess early-stage technologies and translate exploratory findings into enterprise-ready recommendations

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Eight (8) or more years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or related technical roles

Preferred Skills / Experience

• Strong foundation in software engineering and solution architecture
• Experience designing distributed systems and integrating platforms through APIs and modern service-based architectures
• Cloud experience in AWS or Azure, including familiarity with AI/ML services (e.g., Azure OpenAI, SageMaker, Bedrock)
• Demonstrated understanding of generative AI and agentic AI concepts, including ability to evaluate tradeoffs such as latency, context window management, reasoning capability, and safety alignment
• Experience evaluating developer productivity tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar AI-assisted development tools
• Exposure to LLM integration patterns, prompt orchestration, or emerging AI frameworks
• Experience making architecture decisions grounded in real-world tradeoffs (cost, scalability, security, risk)
• Ability to design solutions and provide technical guidance through implementation (not purely conceptual architecture)
• Strong communication and stakeholder alignment skills

Location Expectation

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 ourdisability 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.

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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.