Head of Technology Strategy & Architecture
Chicago, IL, United States
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.
Head of NTAM Technology Architecture
The Head of Asset Management Technology Architecture will be responsible for the definition and application of best practices on driving the overall strategy, governance, architecture patterns/ principles and processes to maximize the impact of technology in support of business priorities and growth. Working at the intersection of business and technology, will work alongside business, operations, data and technology leadership to define holistic strategies that combine business objectives with technology solutions. This leader will also be responsible for enterprise wide collaboration and ensuring full compliance and adherence to security, cyber risks and controls activities in addition to supporting resiliency & change objectives.
Key focus areas include:
Enterprise (Business Unit) Architecture Strategy: developing the frameworks for articulating and documenting business architecture and technology capabilities supporting NT Asset Management
Technology Strategy and Roadmap – collaborate with key business, operational and data leaders to help develop / maintain IT strategy/application roadmaps (e,g, modernization, application rationalization, end of life management, digital growth) aligned to business priorities
Architecture Governance – Oversee various technology councils and forums to ensure adherence to corporate governance process and provide executive leadership with visibility into program performance / decisions rendered
Technology Risk & Controls: key partnership with Cyber, Info Sec, Risks teams to address any issues, decisions, actions and investments required to support adherence and remediations to Global IT Risks & Controls
Cloud Strategy: enabling NTAM to leverage advanced cloud capabilities to deliver modern IT-based services, including infrastructure, applications, platforms and business processes at optimized cost.
Technology Innovation: exploring new and emerging technologies to create a vision of how technology will shape the future and invent the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions
Digital Operating Model: Drive maturity of DevOps / SecOps execution model within technology teams to drive operational and risk excellence
Responsibilities
Design technology strategy based on business objectives and stakeholder analysis including adopting appropriate approach/methods, facilitation techniques, artifacts and deliverables
Responsible for the development/update, communication, adoption and governance of the enterprise and business unit specific technology principles, standards and guidelines.
Lead the development of IT capability roadmaps, technology roadmaps, and technology lifecycle roadmaps.
Partner with product leadership, engineering and operations to deliver enterprise solutions that adhere to enterprise standards, support capabilities, and align with future strategy.
Work closely with the IT Security team to insure overall security of all engineered solutions is addressed.
Facilitate the adoption of enterprise technology and processes across all IT teams.
Identify major disruptive technology and non-technology trends that affect the business and provide recommendations to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
Lead proof-of-technology evaluations, innovation lab and cultivate proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and experiments that advance organizational learning and drive development of new capabilities
Drive IT transformation efforts; own/shape the move toward an agile, product based operating model
Defines appropriate processes and manages compliance to ensure corporate delivery quality at product/platform/program level (e. g. requirements management, risk management, change management, issue management, resource management, project accounting etc.)
Qualifications
Senior leadership roles within IT (Financial Services / Asset Management) spanning strategy, architecture (business, data, digital, information systems, infrastructure) and/or delivery functions driving digital transformation and data strategy leveraging emerging technologies and cloud platforms
Strong experience in leading Architecture deliverables and offerings (IT Technology Strategy and Roadmap, Technology Innovation and Ecosystems, IT Operating Model, Enterprise Architecture Strategy)
Ability to lead the planning, organizing and facilitation of executive-level strategic or IT planning workshops and ability to orchestrate emerging technologies to client services and solutions on cloud platform
Excellent interpersonal skills especially in areas of teamwork, facilitation, influence, and negotiation
Experience in Management Consulting firm (or similar professional services firms) working across client-facing business lines such as Advisory is a plus
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
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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.
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