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.
The Lead Enterprise Architect is responsible for the application and business architecture domains across Shared Services. The candidate will be a key member of the Shared Services Architecture team whose collective responsibility is to promote strategic technology advancement across the organization through a set of fully aligned technical strategies, roadmaps, designs, patterns, and frameworks. This role will partner with executives, their architects and application development teams, and firmwide architects. Must demonstrate a proven history of building large scale technology solutions that effectively address the business objectives of a complex organization. Ensures that business strategy along with market & technology trends are effectively represented in the organization’s systems and business processes. Analyzes the architectural requirements, defines the vision, defines the target state architecture, analyzes the current state, establishes roadmaps and governs the project portfolio and partners with solution architects/engineers to realize the target state.
This individual must be delivery-oriented, possess excellent analytical and communication skills with the ability to reach senior business management as well as technical audiences. Must be able to influence project direction and make pragmatic decisions to optimize the balance between strategic value, time to market, cost and risk. Identify shared services, overlapping capabilities and convergence to standards in order to improve efficiency and quality, and reduce time to value. The preferred candidate will have a broad background in application development, cloud-native delivery, integration, data, and architecture. Must be able to work independently to solve complex problems, create/manage technology plans, yet possess the soft skills to work with a variety of partners.
Knowledge / Skills
Current hands-on software development experience.
Significant experience working with enterprise architecture patterns and solid background of enterprise architecture best practices
Expert-level knowledge of Azure Services including Messaging and Eventing Services, API Management, Azure Kubernetes, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions and Azure Networking.
Hands-on experience building enterprise AI solutions, including LLM-based architectures, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Vector Databases and Agent Frameworks.
Ability to produce reference implementations, reusable accelerators and working examples to unblock engineering teams.
Experience using development languages and open source frameworks like Java, JavaScript, .Net, Spring, ReactJS, etc.
Experience using SQL and NoSQL data platforms; e.g. Azure SQL, Azure Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, CosmosDB.
Deep knowledge of Architecture Frameworks like TOGAF and/or Zachman
Knowledge of software development methodologies and tools like Agile (Kanban/Scrum) and GIT, Jira, Maven, Jenkins, etc.
Experience with DevOps best practices and toolchain / pipeline automation and Azure DevOps.
Knowledge of the financial services industry and in particular, a broad and deep understanding of products and services provided by Northern Trust.
Has an understanding of the Shared Services domains at Northern Trust (Cash, Asset Servicing, Risk and Compliance, HR, Finance)
Strong knowledge of security frameworks and controls.
Major Duties
Strategy
Creation of the Application, Technology and Business Architecture Strategies
Influence the strategy and vision of senior decision makers through articulated communications and presentations.
Ensures alignment between Technology & Business strategies
Roadmaps
Delivery of multi-year Application and Business Architecture Roadmaps
Influence project portfolios towards implementation of the target state
Reviews investment spend to ensure alignment with target state and roadmaps
Identify appropriate technical solutions that 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.
Strategic Programs
Support major programs from an architecture leadership perspective
Act as an escalation point for engineering teams to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across application, integration, cloud, data and AI domains.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Engineering to ensure solutions comply with operational, security and resiliency standards.
Blueprints
Create fully functional application architecture blueprints for typical archetypes, e.g. Web, Microservice, Mobile, 3rd party app, etc.
Enablers
Enable the development organization by creating working examples
Create frameworks that instill all of the non-functional requirements in scope
Define best practices
Training technologists and provide project-based consulting/expertise
Partnership
Build strong relationships with key stakeholders.
Liaise with the Enterprise Architecture groups
Solve problems collaboratively.
Qualifications
Minimum 15+ years development experience
Minimum 7+ years architecture experience
Minimum 1+ year of AI exposure
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; MBA or Master’s degree preferred
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 [email protected].
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.
About Our Pune Office
The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.
Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to heart. In 2024, they volunteered more than 10,000+ hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.
Skills Required
- Minimum 15+ years development experience
- Minimum 7+ years architecture experience
- Minimum 1+ year of AI exposure (hands-on experience building enterprise AI solutions including LLMs, RAG, vector DBs, agent frameworks)
- Current hands-on software development experience
- Expert-level knowledge of Azure services including Messaging and Eventing Services, API Management, Azure Kubernetes, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions and Azure Networking
- Experience using development languages and frameworks such as Java, JavaScript, .Net, Spring, ReactJS
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL platforms (Azure SQL, Azure Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, CosmosDB)
- Deep knowledge of architecture frameworks like TOGAF and/or Zachman
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Kanban/Scrum, Git, Jira, Maven, Jenkins)
- Experience with DevOps best practices, pipeline automation and Azure DevOps
- Ability to produce reference implementations, reusable accelerators and working examples
- Strong knowledge of security frameworks and controls
- Knowledge of financial services industry and Shared Services domains (Cash, Asset Servicing, Risk and Compliance, HR, Finance)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- MBA or Master's degree
Northern Trust Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Northern Trust and has not been reviewed or approved by Northern Trust.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as a standout, with a 401(k) plus an additional employer-funded pension described as a differentiator. This combination is repeatedly framed as a meaningful offset within total rewards, especially for long-term financial security.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are depicted as generous, spanning paid time off, holidays, and dedicated paid volunteer time. The breadth of leave options is highlighted as a consistent strength that supports work-life balance.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is characterized as comprehensive, typically including medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support through an assistance program. The offering is portrayed as robust and family-supportive, with multiple plan options in some descriptions.
Northern Trust Insights
What We Do
As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing and investment solutions, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise and integrity. A globally recognized Fortune 500 Company in continuous operation since 1889, we’ve built a legacy of empowering clients to reach their goals with confidence. Since our roots as a trust bank, we’ve grown to a global presence with more than 24,000 employees in more than 20 countries and across six core business units: Wealth Management Asset Management Asset Servicing Technology Corporate Functions Enterprise Operations Join a Team That’s Achieving Greater At Northern Trust, we refer to our employees as partners – with good reason. We understand that relationships are the key to our success. Here you’ll join a diverse and inclusive team of innovators with the drive to challenge the way things have always been done. Instead of choosing between a dynamic career and work-life balance, enjoy working with a team that supports your goals in the office and at home. We’ll help you get where you want to go without sacrificing what matters most to you. Delivering value and adhering to our enduring principles What are enduring principles? Since our founding, they have guided our strategy and success. Thanks to the dedication of our partners, Northern Trust continues to thrive by adhering to three enduring principles: service, expertise and integrity . What does this mean? Service Northern Trust has a relentless drive to provide exceptional service to our clients, our partners and our communities. We set new standards and go above and beyond in our commitment to delivering greater results. Expertise Expertise is at the core of who we are. We focus sharply on what we do well. From expanding our capabilities, to hiring talented professionals to developing innovative solutions, our expertise is why we continue to be a trusted advisor for generations of families and institutions. Integrity Operating with uncompromising ethics is central to Northern Trust’s heritage. As a result, our clients, partners and communities know they can rely on us. For more than 130 years, our integrity has been our guide – and that will never change.
Why Work With Us
At Northern Trust, we go further because we go together. We embrace flexibility, encourage balance, and prioritize inclusion at all levels, working together to keep you connected. We are committed to our employees—all 24,000 of them. Whether this is a first step or a bold new leap in your career, we’re here to help you move forward.
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