Cyber Recovery 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.

Role: Cyber Recovery Architect

The Cyber Recovery Architect will be responsible for evaluating and designing complex IT infrastructure solutions across a vast range of technologies within the IT Resiliency Team. The architect must have strong program management skills to work with cross-function infrastructure and application owners to assess, design, and implement technical solutions for the Disaster Recovery program. The architect should be able to troubleshoot, identify root cause, and seek a formal solution with other teams as required. This hands-on role must have experience with data center, networking, security, storage, virtualization, database, and middleware technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Independently implements technical solutions and delivers projects end-to-end working autonomously, while providing updates to stakeholders.
• Performs analysis of complex functional and business requirements. Prepares and delivers solutions for others. Leads design activities, working with architects from various technical teams.
• Demonstrates technical expertise and exerts influence outside of immediate team. Develops innovative team solutions to complex problems. Contributes to strategic direction for teams.
• Applies in-depth or broad technical knowledge to provide maintenance solutions across one or more technology areas.
• Performs solution design in collaboration with multiple stakeholders. Applies new technologies and leads design of highly complex infrastructure and software solutions.
• Integrates technical expertise and business understanding to create superior solutions for the Resiliency Team.
• Evaluates, develops, and oversees resiliency strategy across development and engineering teams.
• Advances the DR automation effort of applications and business capabilities.
• Collaborates closely with teams participating in strategic planning, facilitating cross-team solution reviews, and communicating strategy direction.
• Maintains an effective technical network across technical SMEs and architects for multiple service areas.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years as Technical Architect/Systems Administrator/Systems Engineer operating at enterprise scale.
• 3+ years as a Team lead or project manager role that can engage and deliver projects to completion.
• Advanced technical problem-solving skills.
• Practical experience in both technology infrastructure and application development architectures.
• Infrastructure and service architecture & engineering experience, including functional and technical requirements gathering, and solution development.
• Strong system analysis and service development experience.
• Practical experience operating in an Agile development environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Financial or Regulatory domain experience a plus.
• VMWare vRO experience a plus.
• Service Now experience a plus.
• 4+ years of DR experience.
• Automation experience.
• Familiarity with Fusion a plus.

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions, and affluent families and individuals globally. With over 130 years of financial experience and nearly 20,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company that is committed to strengthening the communities we serve!

We recognize the value of inclusion and diversity in culture, in thought, and in experience, which is why we are honored to receive the following awards in 2021:

• Gender Equality Index Member , Bloomberg
• Top Financial & Banking Company , Black
• EOE Journal , Hispanic Network Magazine, Professional WOMAN'S Magazine

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.