Enterprise Architect

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Enterprise Architecture's mission is to design and operate the Capabilities and Platforms that will support Northern Trust's clients for the next decade. Our purpose is to continuously strengthen business-IT alignment around business strategic objectives and improve the return on value from technology. We do this by driving best in class well architecture disciplines and the right technology, at the right time, for the right economics.

This Enterprise Architect role will be focused on supporting application teams from both a architecture consultancy approach and manage the governance of our Architecture Review Boards governance process. The consulting will assist teams in designing their application and solution architectures, including looking for opportunities to onboard their applications to the public cloud. The governance role will ensure teams are prepared for design reviews through the Architecture Review Board, run and facilitate those meetings, and hold teams accountable for addressing identified gaps. In addition, the role will help define enterprise patterns to give design direction to teams.

Key Responsibilities
Coach teams through design and architecture review boards
Consult with teams to improve their delivery maturity for cloud
Provide platform guidance for different use cases
Run and facilitate weekly Architecture Review Board meetings
Continuously improve enterprise architecture processes through a product mindset
Define enterprise patterns and cookbooks to provide guidance to teams
Required Key Skills Broad solution architecture experience Application architectures (e.g. n-tier)
Integration architectures (APIs, Event Streaming, Message Queues and ETL)
Platform architecture
Security architecture - identity and access management, data loss prevention
Data architecture - different data models and approaches (relational, NoSQL, data mesh, lakes / warehouses)

Consulting mindset demonstrating problem solving with a customer focus, with a strong attention to detail
Proven skills in managing governance forums with strong communication skills
Comfortable working with chief architects and CIO / CTO level and working in collaborative environment
Agile application delivery experience Scrum or other agile methods to deliver against product backlog
Strong DevOps pipeline experience (GitHub preferred)

Preferred Skills Cloud experience (Azure preferred) Platform as a Service - Containers, Kubernetes
Security - Firewalls, Networks
Data platforms - data pipelines, data fabric, database platforms
Infrastructure as a Service - supporting re-paving and patching of VMs

Experience with Azure DevOps / Boards
Experience At least 10 years in software delivery and architecture
Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.