Cloud Architect Senior Lead, Arch Solutions

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

Northern Trust is currently looking for a Cloud Architect to join our Business Services Architecture team. This role provides technology leadership in driving digital transformation initiatives in public cloud. Guides the development, specification and communication of application or infrastructure architectures used by multiple business or application systems. Provides extensive, in-depth, technical consultation to the clients, partners, and IT Management to develop plans and directions to assure the integration of corporate business area requirements.

A successful candidate will be passionate about leveraging modern cloud architectures and AI/ML technologies to make significant business impact and bring operational efficiencies:

• Evaluates, prototypes, and recommends emerging Cloud technologies and platforms that best fit project/business needs.
• Promotes sharing of expertise through consulting, presentations, and documentations, etc.
• Translates business needs into technical capabilities within a comprehensive overall solution.
• Operates independently with minimal guidance, handling numerous analysis and design priorities without losing sight of strategic context.
• Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to help improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity
• Provides leadership and guidance to agile engineering teams, fostering an environment that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and communication.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and experience in information system architecture methodologies, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 10+ years of strong hands-on software engineering experience building large-scale systems and platforms.
• Expert understanding of public cloud services, experience with Azure or AWS.
• Good programming experience in Python, Java, .Net etc. and familiarity with Microservices, DDD and Enterprise API architecture patterns.
• Expert in architecting AI/ML solutions and understanding the lifecycle of ML Apps and ML Ops.
• Experience in containers/Kubernetes ecosystem, Pivotal Cloud Foundry or similar technologies.
• Experience and understanding of Agile and DevOps methodologies and familiar with tools like JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Git and Azure DevOps.
• Excellent consultative and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with client, partner, and IT management and staff.
• Well versed with Well Architected frameworks driving Operation excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability
• Awareness of security frameworks and tools such as SSO, SAML, OAuth, JWT, Okta and Ping.
• Knowledge of IaC and automation tools such as Terraform.
• Financial Services experience is a plus.
• Azure certification is a plus.

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'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of America's best banks and most sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today.