Principal, Solution Architect
Northern Trust3 months ago
Base Salary
$137k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and operations of global engineering architectural governance.
- Ensure technical solutions deliver business value while mitigating technical debt.
- Mediate conflicting priorities and drive optimal technology solutions.
- Identify duplicated efforts, redundant capabilities, and opportunities to use firm-wide shared services.
- Deliver multi-year technology strategies showing application target architectures and portfolio roadmaps.
- Influence senior decision-makers through clear communications and presentations.
- Guide project portfolios toward target-state implementation and review investment spending for roadmap alignment.
- Build relationships with key stakeholders, solve problems collaboratively, and liaise with Enterprise Architecture groups.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- At least 12 years of development experience.
- Experience with architecture and transformation programs.
- Agile Scrum management experience; Agile transformation experience is a plus.
- Strong Big Data and open-source experience building modern data warehouses.
- Experience with reconciliation and TLM software is required.
- Strong database knowledge in Oracle and preferably Snowflake.
- In-depth knowledge of middleware layers such as Kafka, MQ, and Spark.
- Understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning is an advantage.
- Strong development background using cloud and Docker technologies.
- Excellent analytical, communication, decision-making, and stakeholder-management skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including 401(k) and pension, medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, disability coverage, paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life and accident insurance, and voluntary and well-being benefits.
- Eligibility for a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with accessible senior leaders, internal mobility, and an inclusive workplace.
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About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a financial services company that provides asset servicing (custody and fund administration), asset management, wealth management, and banking/treasury services to institutions, corporations, and affluent families. Its business model centers on fees for assets under custody/administration and management, plus banking services. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Chicago, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (NTRS) and serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.