Hybrid Business Data Architect

at U.S. Bank

• Job title: Business Data Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $149,515 - $175,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Minneapolis, United States

About the role

• Business Data Architect at U.S. Bank, aligned with enterprise data strategy, governance, and quality. Design data models and collaborate with stakeholders to enhance business processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise data strategy aligned with business objectives
• Partner with executives and business stakeholders to understand strategic priorities and translate them into data capabilities
• Identify opportunities to use data for improving business processes, customer experience, and decision-making
• Design conceptual and logical data models that reflect business processes, domain entities, and relationships
• Ensure data models support analytics, AI/ML, operational systems, and integration needs
• Establish data standards, naming conventions, and modeling best practices
• Collaborate with governance teams to develop data policies, standards, and stewardship practices
• Define business metadata, data definitions, and taxonomies
• Ensure high-quality, consistent, and trusted data across the organization
• Lead business-facing discussions to capture data requirements, use cases, and KPIs
• Break down complex business processes into clear data flows and information needs
• Work with product owners and business analysts to prioritize data initiatives
• Define how data moves across systems via data flows, integration patterns, and APIs
• Work with solution/data engineers to implement scalable pipelines
• Ensure systems can share and consume data in a consistent way
• Help evaluate tools (data platforms, MDM, metadata management, analytics tools, etc.)
• Provide architectural guidance on data lakes, data warehouses, and master data solutions
• Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise data architecture standards
• Define semantic layers, KPIs, and analytical data structures
• Ensure analytical data aligns with business definitions and governance
• Create and maintain data architecture documents, glossaries, data models, and diagrams
• Clearly communicate data architecture decisions to business and technical teams
• Provide training and guidance on how to interpret and use enterprise data

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of data modeling (ER, dimensional), master data, metadata, and data quality
• Understanding of business processes, enterprise systems (CRM, Hogan, ALS etc.), and organizational domains
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), data warehouses, and data lakes
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration

Benefits

• 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