Solution Architect - Data & AI
Northern Trust1 hour ago
Base Salary
$137k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Document application architecture for business units across multiple programs.
- Collaborate with global teams on business deliveries.
- Provide functional and technical design expertise and best practices.
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain business applications and strategic data platforms.
- Architect Snowflake solutions on Azure Cloud for complex business needs.
- Design databases, data models, data processes, data warehouses, data flows, and database schemas.
- Lead technology proofs of concept to validate architecture solutions.
- Evangelize data and AI strategy among business users and data teams through design, documentation, reviews, and cross-team support.
- Lead teams through influence and help develop their end-to-end solution architecture knowledge.
- Apply modern cloud architecture, domain-driven design, and engineering practices.
Requirements
- Expertise in solutioning Snowflake on Azure Cloud for complex business needs.
- Strong understanding of production-enabled AI business tools and advanced analytics techniques involving ML, AI, GenAI, Agentic AI, and MLOps.
- Strong understanding of Azure services and cloud solution architecture.
- Expert-level knowledge of relational databases, dimensional databases, database architecture, and Snowflake internals, integration, and data processing.
- Experience configuring, maintaining, and optimizing Snowflake databases.
- Deep understanding of relational and NoSQL data stores and related methods and approaches.
- Experience with dimensional, star, data vault, and Snowflake data modeling.
- Rich experience designing and implementing logical and physical data models, data flow diagrams, database schemas, and database scripts.
- Strong thought leadership in modern architecture principles, scalable patterns, and technology modernization.
- Cloud architecture certification in AWS or Azure, or strong architecture experience.
- Investment management or asset management experience is recommended.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) and pension retirement benefits.
- Medical, dental, vision, spending account, and disability benefits.
- Paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life and accident insurance, and voluntary and well-being benefits.
- Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with internal mobility and accessible senior leaders.
- Inclusive workplace and reasonable accommodation support.