Principal, Solution Architect (Chicago)

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role Description:

This individual must be delivery-oriented, possess excellent analytical and communication skills with the ability to reach senior business management as well as technical audiences. Must be able to influence project direction and make pragmatic decisions to optimize the balance between strategic value, time to market, cost and risk. Identify shared services, overlapping capabilities and convergence to standards in order to improve efficiency and quality, and reduce time to value. The preferred candidate will have a broad background in application development, architecture, and technology program management. Must be able to work independently to solve complex problems, create/manage technology plans, and yet possess the soft skills to work with a variety of partners.

Responsibilities:

Architectural Governance

• You will be part of the development and operations of the Global Engineering- Architectural Governance.
• Ensure technical solutions provide business value while mitigating technical debt.
• Mediate conflicting priorities to drive optimal solutions.
• Identify and escalates duplication of efforts, functional and technical redundancy, and enforces the use of existing firm-wide shared services.

Roadmaps

• Delivery of the multi-year Technology Strategy that depicts application target architectures and roadmaps across the portfolio.
• Influence the strategy and vision of senior decision makers through articulated communications and presentations.
• Influence project portfolios towards implementation of the target state
• Ensures alignment between Technology & Business strategies
• Reviews investment spend to ensure alignment with target state and roadmaps

Partnership

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Solve problems collaboratively.
• Liaise with the Enterprise Architecture groups.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum 12+ years development experience
• Experience in Architecture and Transformation programs
• Agile SCRUM management experience; Agile transformation experience a plus
• Strong Big data / Open Source experience in building modern warehouse.
• Experience in Reconciliation is a must with the TLM software knowledge.
• Strong Database knowledge in Oracle and Snowflake(preferable)
• In-depth knowledge in the middleware layers like Kafka/MQ/Spark.
• Understanding of AI / Machine learning is an added advantage.
• Strong development background using Cloud/Docker technologies.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.

Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.