Specialist, Enterprise Archit at Northern Trust in Chicago, Illinois

Job Description:

Specialist, Enterprise Architecture

Northern Trust is continually adapting to changing needs and market opportunities and IT strategic change programs are often required to meet these challenges. Dedicated leadership is required to enable and lead technology through these changes. This position is responsible for driving the implementation of change across infrastructure in alignment with information security and enterprise architecture to improve capabilities and reduce risk in the technology portfolio.

The ideal candidate would have a strong IT cross-functional background and experience in delivering complex technical solutions. This role reports to the Director of Infrastructure Architecture, Engineering and Strategy and is part of the Global Technology Infrastructure.

Knowledge/Skills

⦁ Person should be a multi-disciplinary IT practitioner with strong knowledge of strategic program design, expertise in systems engineering, security and required competencies.

⦁ Person should have skills in translating broad strategic intent into actionable plans and directions to enable delivery.

⦁ Authoritative knowledge of technology architecture, networking, application and information security fundamentals

⦁ Systems and technical architecture

⦁ 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

⦁ Preference for an understanding of Asset Servicing, Asset Management or Wealth Management with functional knowledge

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

Major Duties

⦁ Facilitate delivery of network segmentation strategy

⦁ Engage and lead infrastructure transformation strategic change initiatives

⦁ Partner with infrastructure managers, solution architects and information security to design future state end to end platforms (customer experience, application delivery, infrastructure enabled)

⦁ Provide planning, development, organization, monitoring, oversight and delivery of services and projects. Develops quality deliverables including requirements, test plans, and design documentation

⦁ Interact closely with the Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, Business Unit Chief Architects and Information Security to standardize technology patterns

⦁ Align with cloud strategy work to determine applicability of private, hybrid and public cloud delivery

⦁ Ensure platform delivery aligns with information security roadmap

⦁ Partner with line of business CIOs to enable delivery of platform change in optimal way ⦁ Collaborates with vendors to achieve the platforms outcomes

Experience

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

2. 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.

3. Strong experience in providing strategic direction, enterprise architecture and solution delivery

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