Principal, Arch Solutions

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.

Northern Trust - Digital Shared Services teams provide diverse set of capabilities to enable Northern Trust Application teams and Business Partners in the areas of Application Architecture, Development Accelerators, Shared Services API for common digital functions and Collaboration capabilities.

WHO YOU ARE

Very hands on Architect experienced in architecture and design and development of modern cloud applications. You are a thought leader, who is well versed with current technology trends. You are a team player with can do attitude and open for new ideas and collaboration.

You have:

A College or University degree in Computer Science and/or relevant proven work experience

Hands-on software development experience using development languages and open source frameworks like Java, .Net, Spring, etc.

Significant experience with enterprise architecture patterns and best practices

Hands on experience designing and building cloud-native applications using Pivotal Cloud Foundry's Application and Container Services as well as Azure; AWS and/or GCP experience a plus.

Experience using Kubernetes/Docker and container related tooling

Experience managing infrastructure as code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation

Deep knowledge of Architecture Frameworks like TOGAF and/or Zachman

Strong technology modeling skills (e.g. UML) along with associated practices like Domain Driven Design

Knowledge of software development methodologies and tools like Agile (Kanban/Scrum), and GIT, Jira, Maven, Jenkins, etc.

Experience with DevOps best practices and toolchain /pipeline automation; Github and Azure DevOps preferred.

Knowledge of the financial services industry and in particular, a broad and deep understanding of products and services provided by Northern Trust is a plus.

Strong knowledge of security frameworks and controls

Analytical/problem-solving skills, leadership/organizational skills along with ability to operate in dynamic environment.

Strong understanding of nonfunctional requirements and SRE principles

Ability to develop strong relationships with stake holders and mentor team members

Knowledge of building solutions using Box.com

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As an Architect, you will partner with Infrastructure teams, Application development teams, Enterprise Architecture, Business Partners and Vendors to provide Solution Architecture and leadership to application development teams in the following.

Strategy Creation of the Cloud / Technology Architecture Strategies

Influence the strategy and vision of senior decision makers through articulated communications and presentations.

Ensures alignment between Technology & Business strategies

Roadmaps Delivery of the multi-year Cloud / Technology Architecture Roadmaps

Influence project portfolios towards implementation of the target state

Reviews investment spend to ensure alignment with target state and roadmaps

Identify appropriate technical solutions that 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.

Cloud and Technology Architecture Analyzes the current enterprise architecture to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement using cloud solutions, strategic middleware, and optimized infrastructure

Define and articulate architectural requirements around Cloud enablement, middleware, and infrastructure.

Drive consistent usage of cloud and middleware technologies across Share Services

Reduce excessive consumption of infrastructure assets across Share Services

Conduct build vs buy technology evaluations

Strategic Programs Support major programs from an architecture leadership perspective

Blueprints Create fully functional cloud architecture blueprints for typical archetypes, e.g. Web, Microservice, Mobile, 3rd party app, etc.

Enablers Enable the development organization by creating working examples

Create cloud-related frameworks that instill all of the non-functional requirements in scope

Define cloud delivery best practices

Training technologists and provide project-based consulting/expertise

Partnership Build strong relationships with key stakeholders.

Liaise with the Enterprise Architecture groups

Solve problems collaboratively.

Acts as a subject matter expert on technologies and trends in cloud, middleware, and infrastructure architectures.

Ensure that the applications delivered are aligned with Enterprise Architecture standards and patterns along with meeting non-functional requirements.

Implement and help identify measures to improve applications stability and availability along with reduction in technical debt.

Mentor Application Architects and developers in Digital Shared Services team and other teams.

Ensure compliance with corporate standards related to Application Development (e.g. coding, security, interface management) and/or Production Service delivery (e.g. ITSM incident and problem management). Confirms that the artefacts/deliverables related to solution development, are produced as required by Northern Trust's project lifecycle(s) and/or service management standards.

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.