Senior Principal Solutions Consulting

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.

Title - Senior Principal Solutions Consulting

Northern Trust is continually adapting to increasing information security threats which requires scalable, sustainable infrastructure designed around sound security principles.

This position is an expert responsible for network infrastructure architecture and engineering initiatives with an explicit focus on alignment with information security and risk reduction in the technology portfolio.

The ideal candidate would have a strong IT cross-functional background and experience in securing complex technical solutions. This role reports to the Chief Infrastructure Architect and is part of Global Technology Infrastructure.

Knowledge/Skills:

- Strong network security understanding having experience in managing and architecting zero-trust network architectures

- Understanding of network and authentication protocols including but not limited to: IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS, LDAP(S), SAML, FIDO2, IPSEC, OpenVPN, OSPF, BGP, KERBEROS, and802.1x

- Understanding on Securing Privileged Access and MS RAMP model

- Experience with Azure services including but not limited to: Azure Bastion, Azure KeyVault, Sentinel LogAnalytics , Arc, AppProxy, Entra, PIM, Defender for Cloud, Endpoint and Identity

- Strong skills in Kusto Query Language

- Skills in translating broad strategic intent into actionable plans and directions to enable delivery.

- Authoritative knowledge of information security technology architecture, networking, application and automation- infrastructure architecture

- information security

- cloud architectures - public, private and hybrid

- application architecture

- Excellent leadership, organizational skills and management skills, are required to meet goals.

- Ability to work in matrix organization to drive change.

- Person must have excellent negotiation and conflict management skills and have experience working with senior stakeholders

- Excellent writing, problem solving, presentation and storytelling skills.

Major Duties:

- Operates as Architect for Network Security Control functions

- Drive infrastructure information security architecture by aligning processes, IT software and hardware, local and wide area networks, people, operations, and projects with the organization's overall security strategy

- Interprets and/or approves security requirements relative to the capabilities of new information technologies

- Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues

- Interact closely with the Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, and Information Security to evaluate options and make decisions on go forward security architectures, models and principles.

- Interfaces frequently with information security industry groups to stay abreast of emerging security trends

- Ensure information security is core to public, private and hybrid cloud architecture and deployment.

- Ensure platform delivery aligns with information security roadmap

- Collaborates with vendors to achieve the platforms outcomes

Experience:

- Requires a college or university degree and/or relevant proven work experience, organizational, leadership, and management skills to provide knowledge to the functional business.

- Extensive experience, that has been developed over 15+ years, in change / design initiatives, covering such areas as operations, IT and product development; with a track record of accomplishment in large, complex projects and change initiatives

- Experience in the area of Information Security is required. Industry certification such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC is preferred

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 [email protected].

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.

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 [email protected].

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.