Senior AI Platforms Architect for Production-Grade GenAI

Northern Trust Corp; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 137,400 - 233,600; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to lead production-grade AI platforms and data pipelines in a regulated financial setting. You will design secure architectures, integrate structured and unstructured data, and drive governance around data assets and risk controls.

You will collaborate with AI, data engineering, and risk teams to deliver client-ready AI capabilities, while guiding how vendor solutions and cloud services are consumed within compliant enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or integration in financial services.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS, data engineering, or related field.
• Proven ability to deliver production-grade AI data pipelines with governance and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of client-facing AI capabilities and dashboards.
• Architect data pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Ensure metadata, lineage, and audit trails across data assets.
• Collaborate with architecture, data teams, and risk functions.
• Guide regulatory compliance, vendor negotiations, and security assessments.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data integration

Cloud platforms

LLM/GenAI

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Vector databases

Anthropic Claude

OpenAI GPT

Pyspark

Azure

AWS

GCP

VS Code

GitHub Copilot

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science / Data Eng

Tools

PGVector

Pinecone

Neo4j

Azure

AWS

GCP

Pyspark

VS Code

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to lead production-grade AI platforms and data pipelines in a regulated financial setting. You will design secure architectures, integrate structured and unstructured data, and drive governance around data assets and risk controls.

You will collaborate with AI, data engineering, and risk teams to deliver client-ready AI capabilities, while guiding how vendor solutions and cloud services are consumed within compliant enterprise standards.