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.

Role- Mainframe System Architect

Description of role and key responsibilities:

This is a technical and hands on role, with a primary focus on design and implementation of Mainframe Infrastructure changes; although you will be expected to support the Mainframe Infrastructure Engineering and operations team with complex troubleshooting of issues as required.
 

You will have experience of working in a high impact, mission critical environments, where service matters, and exceeding expectations is the norm. You have lead critical projects, thrive in critical problem solving, and enjoy leading a team working on projects.

Key responsibilities 

The Mainframe System Architect’s  primary areas of responsibility include ensuring there are defined standards in place, manage the technical lifecycle of products and services, deliver change/transformation against created designs; always ensuring a smooth transition/handover to Mainframe technology Operations with adjunct supported to the Operations as neededPerform and upgrade of a major product in a production like environment, evaluating any risks and taking actions to mitigate/ minimize these risks via proven back-out plan and knowledge of what could wrong including effective testing.Defining and documenting Mainframe Infrastructure Architecture Standards and best practicesCreation of Low Level Design documents to meet requirements outlined in the High Level DesignCreation of detailed Implementation Plans for all Mainframe Infrastructure Engineering related activityProcurement activities relating to build and delivery of new services (Project)Ensuring the smooth Transition/Handover to Production Support Operations in line with agreed Operational Acceptance ProcessSupporting Architecture in creation and upkeep of a Mainframe Infra Delivery RoadmapSupporting the Architecture in scoping activities required to produce the High Level DesignSupporting Architecture in undertaking Proof of Concept activitiesEnsuring skillsets are relevant and up to date in order to deliver change and provide a high level of supportProviding escalation support with complex troubleshooting of Major Incidents as required

Core Skills & Experience:

A mainframe architect's responsibilities include technical design of mainframe infrastructure projects and ensuring that hardware and software work together. They may also be responsible for: 

A minimum 12+ years of hands on experience as Mainframe System Architect within a global enterprise scale organization  Considerable first-hand experience of design engineering and building resilient and scalable solutions, ideally within finance or investment banking.The concepts of risk and compliance and how to translate these into effective security solutions.Appreciation of automation and orchestration and will have experience of scripting with Native Mainframe and modern technology stacks  Strong understanding of IBM Mainframe technologies Familiar with a variety of testing tools and techniques to accurately troubleshoot and resolve complex technical problems associated with the service, application and Mainframe hardware and software.

Technical Skills & Experience:

You will have expert knowledge and experience in several of the following areas:

z/OS System Programming Mainframe System administrator activities Modernization and migration: Analyzing, designing, and implementing code and database changes to move mainframe applications to the cloud or a modern cloud-connected mainframePerformance tuning, CoD Provisioning architecture, System Upgrades, Troubleshooting Technical hands-on experience on ACF2, SMP/E, VTAM, HMCGood to have knowledge on JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, OPS-MVSScripting language – REXX, CLIST, Python, UNIX Shell, VSAMSystem Management Support with SMP/E, SMF, RMFKnowledge on System Services support (storage management, job management, work load management, data sets, and data set management)Awareness on ISV products, install products and services, perform upgrades, IPL, DR/SR activities Knowledge on z/OS System libraries, z/OS Components and Mainframe system hardware architectureDisaster planning and recovery: Planning for and recovering from disasters Mentorship: Applying programming techniques to mentor developers and review code Product roadmaps: Maintaining product roadmaps that include modernization, cloud solutions, and technical debt Security and compliance: Ensuring compliance with industry standards for security and auditProblem determination and resolution: Identifying and resolving system level problemsDisaster planning and recovery: Planning for and recovering from disasters Mentorship: Applying programming techniques to mentor developers and review code Modernization and migration: Analyzing, designing, and implementing code and database changes to move mainframe applications to the cloud or a modern cloud-connected mainframeClient support: Providing strong client support and transformationsHardware and software: Configuring hardware, installing software products, and upgrading and migrating hardware and softwareSecurity and compliance: Ensuring compliance with industry standards for security and auditProblem determination and resolution: Identifying and resolving system level problemsDisaster planning and recovery: Planning for and recovering from disasters Mentorship: Applying programming techniques to mentor developers and review code Product roadmaps: Maintaining product roadmaps that include modernization, cloud solutions, and technical debt 

Qualifications (must haves):

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT related field, and/or equivalent work experience

Excellent verbal and written skills are required

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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

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.