Cloud Modernization Enablement Architect

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.

Enterprise Architecture's mission is to design and operate the Capabilities and Platforms that will support Northern Trust's clients for the next decade. Our purpose is to continuously strengthen business-IT alignment around business strategic objectives and improve the return on value from technology. We do this by driving best in class well architecture disciplines and the right technology, at the right time, for the right economics.

This is where innovation meets execution – we are looking for a stellar Cloud Enablement Architect with a strong engineering focus to be part of our journey. You will play a vital role in defining the process, architecture, and execution of onboarding additional Northern cloud products into the evolving public cloud portfolio. This includes engagement with foundation cloud platform and shared service product owners, as well as ongoing dialogue and solution design with Line of Business, architects, developers, and operators – jointly preparing and facilitating the initial delivery of the public cloud into our production locations. You will also help plan product roadmaps and sequencing of work for our growing cloud journey.

Your key responsibilities include:

1. Cloud architecture planning and implementation to include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings.
2. Documentation of cloud service offerings - contribution of expertise to technical architecture diagrams.
3. Interfacing with internal technical leadership and communicating technical concepts clearly.
4. Identifying efficiencies in service offerings and applying innovative solutions.
5. Adapting infrastructure to security requirements and understanding impacts across large-scale systems.
6. Accelerating the onboarding process of additional Northern product applications into the Public Cloud portfolio while establishing co-ownership of the end-to-end product pipeline between cloud development and our engineering units.
7. Further standardizing and establishing scaling models for product onboarding into the Public Cloud portfolio.
8. Enabling new deployment options, e.g. onto Azure, AWS, or GCP.
9. Accelerating the efficiency of setting up new environments which are compliant and feature ready for application product teams.
10. Building healthy cross-relationships to architects, product owners, and engineers of other Northern Trust products and areas.
11. Fostering performance and collaboration of a virtual team of professionals.

Key Skills:

1. Proven cloud architecture to engineering and cloud infrastructure expertise.
2. Strong execution mindset and proven ability to deliver in time and quality.
3. Ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders.
4. Consulting mindset demonstrating problem-solving with a customer focus.
5. Strong methodological and conceptual skills paired with analytical thinking.
6. Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
7. High cultural awareness and intercultural competencies.
8. Persistence, self-motivation, and willingness to work under pressure.
9. Broad solution architecture experience.
10. Application architectures (e.g. n-tier).
11. Integration architectures (APIs, Event Streaming, Message Queues, and ETL).
12. Platform architecture.
13. Security architecture - identity and access management, data loss prevention.
14. Data architecture - different data models and approaches (relational, NoSQL, data mesh, lakes/warehouses).
15. Proven experience modernizing from legacy technologies to cloud (including midrange and mainframe platforms).
16. Cloud experience (Azure preferred).
17. Platform as a Service - Containers, Kubernetes.
18. Security - Firewalls, Networks.
19. Data platforms - data pipelines, data fabric, database platforms.
20. Infrastructure as a Service - supporting re-paving and patching of VMs.
21. Agile application delivery experience.
22. Scrum or other agile methods to deliver against product backlog.
23. Strong DevOps pipeline experience (GitHub preferred).

Experience:

1. At least 10 years in software delivery and architecture.
2. Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
3. Applicable cloud certifications.

With your strong collaborative and quality-first mindset, you are able to proactively forge the path forward, innovatively solve any challenges, and strongly collaborate with other team members across the whole organization. You are fluent in English – both verbal and written.

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.