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.

Founded in Chicago in 1889, Northern Trust is one of the world’s leading financial institutions. We specialize in providing asset servicing solutions and asset management to both institutional and personal clients. The delivery of products and services to this client base is supported through a network of offices in more than 40 countries around the globe.

We believe our most valuable asset is our engaged, empowered, and diverse workforce. As a global institution, Northern Trust is committed to building upon this diverse talent through encouraging innovative thinking and personal courage in an inclusive environment. Northern Trust’s commitment to diversity & inclusion is evident in our internal initiatives for which we have won several globally recognized awards.
 

NT is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Architect with a strong focus on resiliency to scale the posture across technologies. The Sr Principal Architect position, reporting into the IT Resiliency Office, is a strategic role geared towards liaising with Business Units, Product Teams, Technology Leaders, and Programs to both promote and ensure overall system resiliency. This role will be accountable for driving a resilient architecture capable of tolerating and adapting to challenges. You will influence the NT culture with driving resiliency to lead to uninterrupted services.  

This role will be responsible for a number of key functions that both support and drive improvements to the resiliency of Northern Trust’s IT Resiliency.

What you will do:

End-to-End Architecture Leadership: Oversee the design and implementation of resilient architectures across the technology domains.Cloud and On-Premises Infrastructure Expertise: Design and review resilient solutions in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.Chaos Engineering Infrastructure Initiatives: Lead chaos engineering efforts to proactively identify and mitigate potential system weaknesses.Standards for Monitoring and Alerting: Collaborate with Teams to evolve existing standards for system monitoring and alerting to ensure rapid detection and response.Resiliency Architecture Reviews: Represent the IT Resiliency Office during the Architectural Review Board.Enterprise-wide Collaboration and stakeholder management: Collaborate with various teams across the organization to align and prioritize resiliency and recovery efforts.Incident Response and Recovery: Integrate with post mortem process, from a major incident, to identify areas of opportunity for enhancing resiliency.Development: Evangelize standards and practices among the Technology organization to enrich our resiliency posture. Reporting and Documentation: Develop standardized regular reporting on resilience activities, risks, and improvements to the Leadership team.

You possess:

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.15+ years in architecture and systems engineering with a focus on resiliency, demonstrating leadership in the creation and maintenance of robust, large-scale systems.5+ years as a Team lead or a hands on Technical Manager role that can engage and deliver projects to completionA track record of successfully architecting and deploying enterprise-level solutions that prioritize system uptime and data integrity across various operational scenarios.Demonstrated ability to design and implement systems that ensure high availability, support massive transaction volumes, and facilitate seamless disaster recovery processes.Infrastructure and service architecture & engineering experience, including functional and technical requirements gathering, and solution development.Strong dedication to customer needs, with excellent communication and the ability to build lasting relationships, alongside the capability to articulate complex resilience strategies in a clear and impactful manner.Deep insight into the complexities of multi-AZ and multi-Region cloud platforms, with a keen understanding of how these impact system resilience and disaster recovery planning.Proven experience in the ongoing management of mission-critical systems that require constant uptime, including out-of-hours support and rapid response to incidents.Knowledgeable in evaluating and deciding on trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance, especially in the context of system failures and recovery strategies.Well-versed in various cloud service models such as SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, with hands-on experience in designing resilient services on leading public cloud platforms.Proficient in Chaos Engineering principles and practices, with experience in designing and conducting experiments to validate the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions.Skilled in implementing observability solutions that provide real-time insights into the performance and health of systems, aiding in proactive issue detection and resolution.Practical experience operating in an Agile development environment.

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.

 

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.