001 The Northern Trust Company

Lead development and governance of enterprise resiliency architecture standards across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. | 10+ years enterprise architecture experience with expertise in hybrid cloud resiliency, DR strategies, and architecture governance. | 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 OVERVIEW: Technology Resiliency Architect is a senior hands-on architect responsible for embedding resiliency by design across the enterprise technology landscape. The role leads development, governance, and implementation of enterprise resiliency architecture standards across on-premises infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS platforms. Serving as a technical authority in Architecture Review Boards (ARB), this position partners with Business Unit architects and engineering teams to translate enterprise resiliency strategy into practical implementation guidance through Resiliency Implementation Guidelines (RIGs) . KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Hybrid Architecture Expertise On-Premises: data center resiliency, server/storage redundancy, DB failover, network patterns Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP): multi-region, automated failover, cross-region replication Private Cloud: VMware virtualization resiliency, storage and compute HA SaaS: vendor resiliency assessments, failover capabilities, third-party DR validation Well-Architected Resiliency Assessments Lead resiliency reviews identifying architectural weaknesses and risks Assess recovery capabilities against defined RTO and RPO targets Develop remediation strategies and resiliency uplift roadmaps Engineering & Automation Alignment Promote IaC (Terraform, Ansible), DR automation, and recovery orchestration Drive configuration/drift management and automated recovery testing Regulatory & Risk Alignment Ensure architecture standards support operational resilience requirements Provide architectural evidence for audit and regulatory reviews Collaborate with governance and risk teams to strengthen resiliency controls Enterprise Resiliency Architecture Design resilient architectures across on-prem, private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS Develop patterns for high availability, disaster recovery (DR), and data protection Identify and eliminate single points of failure in Tier-0 and mission-critical systems Resiliency Implementation Guidelines (RIGs) Define technical standards and reusable architecture blueprints covering: DR, PiTR, backup/restore, database resiliency, messaging (Kafka, MQ, Solace) Hybrid cloud recovery, storage replication, application failover patterns Architecture Governance & ARB Core ARB member — review designs for resiliency compliance and risk Identify vulnerabilities, recommend remediation, enforce enterprise patterns Act as technical gatekeeper for resiliency across all major initiatives Business Unit Engagement Provide hands-on architecture support for critical applications and platforms Lead architecture design workshops with BU technology teams Advise on DR, PiTR, and failover strategies for resilient hybrid architectures REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & TECHNICAL EXPERTISE Professional Experience 10+ years in enterprise, infrastructure, or solution architecture Proven experience designing resilient hybrid architectures at large enterprise scale Experience supporting architecture governance frameworks and ARB processes Financial services or highly regulated industry experience preferred Infrastructure & Platforms Data center infrastructure and storage/compute resiliency patterns Server virtualization platforms (VMware / private cloud) Network resiliency and redundancy architectures Cloud Architecture Public cloud platforms — AWS, Azure, GCP Hybrid and multi-region cloud architectures Cloud DR strategies and automated failover patterns Recovery & Continuity Disaster Recovery architecture and backup/restore platforms Database recovery, replication, and PiTR implementations Messaging resiliency — Kafka, MQ, Solace Architecture Governance Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and standards development Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or equivalent) Preferred Experience Enterprise resiliency transformation initiatives SRE and reliability engineering frameworks Observability and monitoring platforms Cyber recovery and isolated recovery architectures KEY COMPETENCIES Deep technical architecture expertise Translates strategy into actionable design patterns Strong hands-on engineering mindset Strong collaboration with engineering teams Ability to influence across large organizations Drives resiliency culture across the enterprise SUCCESS METRICS & ROLE IMPACT Performance Measured By Adoption of enterprise Resiliency Implementation Guidelines (RIGs) Reduction of architectural single points of failure Architecture compliance through ARB governance Improved recovery capabilities across critical services Successful remediation of resiliency architecture gaps Role Impact This role plays a critical part in ensuring the enterprise can withstand and rapidly recover from technology disruptions — including cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, and cloud service outages. Through architecture leadership, governance, and engineering partnership, this position establishes a resiliency-first technology culture across the organization. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa) Salary Range: $137,400 - 233,600 USD Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component. 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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com. 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. Looking for greater? You found it. A global financial leader with more than 22,000 employees in 23 locations worldwide, Northern Trust empowers our employees to achieve more than just business goals. Our focus on work-life balance, career mobility and unique opportunities are just a few of the reasons we’ve been named one of the world’s most admired companies. Terms and Conditions Candidate Privacy Notice California Applicant Privacy Notice Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (U.S) Transparency in Coverage Disclosure – North America Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. 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