Sr. Principal, Data 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.

Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining high performance, scalable, and stable data architectures
• Research new database methods and technologies to fully utilize platform features
• Collaborating with internal customers, development teams, and product management to identify and document use case scenarios
• Lead on all data solution aspects including solving complex problems, setting data standards and providing technical expertise to development teams for best practices, systems, and architecture
• Handles the most complex IT data architecture projects involving multiple disciplines or ambiguous IT architecture issues. Coordinates with users to determine requirements
• Provides comprehensive consultation, training and guidance to business unit, less experienced staff, and IT systems architecture
• Design data architectures and solutions that are available and scalable
• Design effective data store solutions that account for effective capacity planning, data tiering, and data life-cycle management
• Design automated data ingestion procedures for on-premises and cloud data sources
• Ensure the successful delivery of solutions, training, and documentation to internal data team
• Recommend solutions to improve new and existing data storage and analytic systems
• Participate in code reviews and create documentation for engineering and cross-functional practices

Qualifications

• Specialized knowledge of data architecture, excellent consultative skills, strong analytical skills and ability to work effectively with clients, management and team members.
• Demonstrated experiences in architecture of enterprise level data solutions
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer or data program or related experience
• 15+ years relational database design experiences including Azure, SQL Server, and Oracle
• 5-10 years experience with cloud data services (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, Snowflake)
• Experience with Data Mesh and data platform modernization a plus
• Large scale data warehouse design experience
• 10+ years ETL experience
• Shell scripting, python experience
• Experience with Data Lake architectures is a plus
• Experiences in migrating traditional database to cloud platforms
• Experiences with Predictive Analytics a plus
• Project management experience a plus
• Experience in team management, communication, and presentation.
• Experience with Azure (ADF, ADLS, Synapse, Databricks)
• Understand Data Governance as well as experience with Collibra and/or other data governance tools

Salary Range:

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.