Director, Enterprise Architect Solution

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.

The Lead Enterprise Architect is responsible for the application and business architecture domains across Shared Services. The candidate will be a key member of the Shared Services Architecture team whose collective responsibility is to promote strategic technology advancement across the organization through a set of fully aligned technical strategies, roadmaps, designs, patterns, and frameworks. This role will partner with executives, their architects and application development teams, and firmwide architects. Must demonstrate a proven history of building large scale technology solutions that effectively address the business objectives of a complex organization. Ensures that business strategy along with market & technology trends are effectively represented in the organization’s systems and business processes. Analyzes the architectural requirements, defines the vision, defines the target state architecture, analyzes the current state, establishes roadmaps and governs the project portfolio and partners with solution architects/engineers to realize the target state.

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, cloud-native delivery, integration, data, and architecture. Must be able to work independently to solve complex problems, create/manage technology plans, yet possess the soft skills to work with a variety of partners.

Knowledge / Skills

• Current hands-on software development experience.

• Significant experience working with enterprise architecture patterns and solid background of enterprise architecture best practices

• Expert-level knowledge of Azure Services including Messaging and Eventing Services, API Management, Azure Kubernetes, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions and Azure Networking.

• Hands-on experience building enterprise AI solutions, including LLM-based architectures, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Vector Databases and Agent Frameworks.

• Ability to produce reference implementations, reusable accelerators and working examples to unblock engineering teams.

• Experience using development languages and open source frameworks like Java, JavaScript, .Net, Spring, ReactJS, etc.

• Experience using SQL and NoSQL data platforms; e.g. Azure SQL, Azure Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, CosmosDB.

• Deep knowledge of Architecture Frameworks like TOGAF and/or Zachman

• 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 and Azure DevOps.

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

• Has an understanding of the Shared Services domains at Northern Trust (Cash, Asset Servicing, Risk and Compliance, HR, Finance)

• Strong knowledge of security frameworks and controls.

Major Duties

• Strategy

  Creation of the Application, Technology and Business 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 multi-year Application and Business 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.

• Strategic Programs

  Support major programs from an architecture leadership perspective

  Act as an escalation point for engineering teams to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across application, integration, cloud, data and AI domains.

  Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Engineering to ensure solutions comply with operational, security and resiliency standards.

• Blueprints

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

• Enablers

  Enable the development organization by creating working examples

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

  Define 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.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15+ years development experience

• Minimum 7+ years architecture experience

• Minimum 1+ year of AI exposure

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; MBA or Master’s degree preferred

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 .

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.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to heart. In 2024, they volunteered more than 10,000+ hours into the communities where they live and work.