Enterprise Integration Architect

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.

Enterprise Integration Architect

Enterprise Architecture's mission is to design and operate the Capabilities and Platforms that will support Northern Trust's clients for the next decade. Our purpose is to continuously strengthen business-IT alignment around business strategic objectives and improve the return on value from technology. We do this by driving best in class well architecture disciplines and the right technology, at the right time, for the right economics.

Key Responsibilities- Define standards, practices and patterns for mature enterprise API lifecycle management, Events, Messaging and ETL- Enable the developer experience to be able to leverage the patterns for successful delivery- Support enterprise deployment of integration platforms- Define enterprise patterns and cookbooks to provide guidance to teams- Provide platform guidance for different use cases- Consult with teams to improve their delivery maturity for cloud- Continuously improve enterprise architecture processes through a product mindset

Required Key Skills- Broad solution architecture experience- Application architectures (e.g. n-tier) and testing- Integration architectures (APIs, Event Streaming, Message Queues and ETL)- Platform architecture- Security architecture - identity and access management, data loss prevention, key management- Diagramming (at least one of: Miro, Draw.io, Visio). Knows when to use which kind of diagram to use for each audience: logical architecture, physical architecture, sequence diagram, decision tree.- Consulting mindset demonstrating problem solving with a customer focus, with a strong attention to detail-
- Comfortable working with chief architects and CIO / CTO level and working in collaborative environment-
- Understands the implications of sending events versus messages and what the intent is for the subscriber.- Understands implications of security on integration, such as secondary encryption, key rotation, certificate management, SSO, etc.- Understands what it means to publish APIs and events across an enterprise and is able to establish a strategy for doing so.- Knows how to establish non-functional requirements for an integration platform, such as resiliency, RTO, RPO, throughput, latency, etc.-
- Scrum or other agile methods to deliver against product backlog- Strong DevOps pipeline experience (GitHub preferred)

Preferred Skills- Cloud experience (Azure preferred)- Integration platforms - Azure API Management, Kafka, Solace- Platform as a Service - Containers, Kubernetes- Security - Firewalls, Networks, Authentication, Authorization- Data platforms - data pipelines, data fabric, database platforms- Infrastructure as Code - Terraform- Cloud Networking- Experience with Azure DevOps / Boards- DevOps and CI/CD skills - GitHub pipelines

Experience- At least 10 years in software delivery and architecture- Minimum of bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline

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.

Reasonable accommodation


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.