Senior Solution Architect — Global Tech Strategy

Quest Oracle Community; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 137,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a senior architectural leader to drive governance and strategy across a broad technology portfolio. The role requires influencing senior business and technical audiences, and delivering multi-year roadmaps while optimizing value, time, cost and risk.

The ideal candidate will have extensive development, architecture, and transformation program experience, with strong data, middleware, and cloud/Docker skills to shape the future state of the enterprise platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years development experience.
• Experience in Architecture and Transformation programs.
• Agile SCRUM management experience; Agile transformation experience a plus.
• Strong Big data / Open Source experience in building modern warehouse.
• Experience in Reconciliation is a must with the TLM software knowledge.
• Strong Database knowledge in Oracle and Snowflake.
• In-depth knowledge in the middleware layers like Kafka/MQ/Spark.
• Understanding of AI / Machine learning is an added advantage.
• Strong development background using Cloud/Docker technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate the Global Engineering- Architectural Governance.
• Ensure technical solutions provide business value while mitigating technical debt.
• Mediate conflicting priorities to drive optimal solutions.
• Identify and escalates duplication of efforts, functional and technical redundancy, and enforces the use of existing firm-wide shared services.
• Deliver multi-year Technology Strategy and roadmaps across the portfolio.
• Influence the strategy and vision of senior decision makers through communications and presentations.
• Influence project portfolios towards implementation of the target state.
• Ensure alignment between Technology & Business strategies.
• Review investment spend to ensure alignment with target state and roadmaps.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders.
• Solve problems collaboratively.
• Liaise with the Enterprise Architecture groups.

Skills

Big data

Reconciliation

Databases (Oracle/Snowflake)

Messaging/Streaming (Kafka/MQ/Spark)

Cloud/Docker

AI/ML understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Oracle

Snowflake

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a senior architectural leader to drive governance and strategy across a broad technology portfolio. The role requires influencing senior business and technical audiences, and delivering multi-year roadmaps while optimizing value, time, cost and risk.

The ideal candidate will have extensive development, architecture, and transformation program experience, with strong data, middleware, and cloud/Docker skills to shape the future state of the enterprise platform.