About Northern Trust
As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.
Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.
With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
The Principal Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and advancing architecture for Global Engineering. The candidate will be a key member of the Global Engineering Architecture team whose collective responsibility is to enable system development through aligned enterprise strategies, roadmaps, golden paths, reference architectures, design patterns, standards, and governance frameworks. This role will partner with executives, enterprise architects, solution architects, application development teams, platform engineering, data, security, and the business. Must demonstrate a proven history of shaping large-scale technology solutions that address the business objectives of a complex global organization. Ensures that business strategy, market trends, technology evolution, and AI-enabled opportunities are effectively represented in the organization’s systems, platforms, data architecture, and business processes. Analyzes architectural requirements, defines the vision and target-state architecture, assesses the current state, establishes transformation roadmaps, governs the project portfolio, and partners with solution architects and engineers to realize the target state.
This individual must be delivery-oriented, enterprise-minded, and able to influence across senior business, technology, risk, security, and engineering audiences. Must be able to guide strategic direction and make pragmatic decisions that optimize business value, engineering velocity, resiliency, cost, security, regulatory expectations, and risk. Identify reusable platforms, shared engineering capabilities, overlapping functions, and opportunities to converge on standards in order to improve efficiency, quality, developer experience, and time to value across Global Engineering. The preferred candidate will have a broad background in enterprise architecture, application development, cloud-native delivery, integration, data architecture, AI-enabled solutions, platform engineering, security, and architecture governance. Must be able to work independently to solve complex problems, create and manage technology roadmaps, and collaborate effectively with a diverse set of partners.
Knowledge / Skills
Previous or current hands-on software development experience using modern application development frameworks such as Java/Spring, JavaScript/ReactJS, APIs, cloud-native services, and engineering automation.
Significant experience with enterprise architecture patterns, architecture governance, capability modeling, target-state definition, and enterprise architecture best practices.
Hands on experience designing and building of cloud-native architectures; preference using Azure, AWS, Tanzu, and/or Kubernetes
Deep knowledge of API and microservice style architectures
Experience shaping AI-enabled architecture strategies, including generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, model lifecycle management, prompt and context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and integration of AI capabilities into enterprise platforms.
Strong understanding of responsible AI, AI risk management, model governance, explainability, data privacy, security controls, regulatory considerations, and production observability for AI-enabled systems.
Experience using API Management Platforms and Storefronts (e.g. APIGEE, Software AG, etc)
Experience using Kafka, Solace, and/or MQ for messaging/event streaming
Deep knowledge of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and/or Zachman, with the ability to apply frameworks pragmatically across business, application, data, technology, security, cloud, and AI architecture domains.
Experience with SQL, NoSQL, data platforms, metadata, data quality, lineage, and governance capabilities required to support analytics, AI, and enterprise-scale decisioning; e.g. Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Mongo, data lakehouse, and cloud data services.
Knowledge of software development methodologies and tools such as Agile, product-oriented delivery, Github, GH Copilot, ADO Boards, Maven/Gradle, CI/CD (Actions), MLOps, LLMOps, and architecture-as-code practices.
Experience with DevOps best practices and toolchain / pipeline automation, Azure DevOps and Atlassian Suite preferred
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 Global Engineering domains, enterprise platforms, software delivery practices, developer experience, cloud enablement, integration, data, security, and operational resiliency in a large financial services environment.
Strong knowledge of security frameworks and controls.
Major Duties
Define enterprise architecture strategies and target-state roadmaps that provide business value while reducing complexity, technical debt, operational risk, and duplicated capabilities.
Mediate conflicting priorities to drive optimal solutions.
Identify and escalate duplication of effort, functional and technical redundancy, and opportunities to reuse Global Engineering platforms, standards, and shared enterprise capabilities.
Create reference architectures and reusable patterns for common archetypes, including web, microservice, mobile, third-party platforms, cloud-native services, data platforms, AI-enabled applications, and automation solutions.
Quickly build proof of concept prototypes with new technologies being researched.
Establish AI architecture guardrails, responsible AI design patterns, model governance expectations, data readiness criteria, and production readiness standards for AI-enabled solutions.
Partner with platform engineering, data, security, risk, and application teams to integrate AI capabilities safely into enterprise platforms and business processes.
Enable the development organization by creating working examples
Create cloud, platform, data, and AI-related frameworks that embed non-functional requirements, including resiliency, observability, security, privacy, performance, scalability, cost management, and operational supportability.
Define cloud, platform engineering, DevSecOps, data, and AI delivery best practices for Global Engineering.
Training technologists and provide project-based consulting/expertise
Liaise with Enterprise Architecture, Global Engineering, Security, Data, Risk, Infrastructure, and application delivery groups to align architecture direction and execution.
Solve problems collaboratively.
Act as a subject matter expert on technologies and trends in enterprise architecture, cloud, platform engineering, middleware, data, security, infrastructure, generative AI, and AI-enabled automation.
Qualifications
Minimum 12+ years of technology experience across application development, engineering, architecture, platform, data, cloud, or related disciplines.
Minimum 8+ years of enterprise, solution, domain, or platform architecture experience, with demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and govern architecture decisions at scale.
Demonstrated experience applying AI, data, automation, cloud, and platform architecture concepts to enterprise transformation, including responsible AI and AI governance considerations.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; MBA or Master’s degree preferred
Working with Us
As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.
Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.
Reasonable Accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected], or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.
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 12+ years technology experience across application development, engineering, architecture, platform, data, cloud, or related disciplines.
- Minimum 8+ years enterprise, solution, domain, or platform architecture experience with governance and stakeholder influence at scale.
- Hands-on software development experience using Java and Spring, JavaScript and ReactJS, APIs, cloud-native services, and engineering automation.
- Experience designing and building cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with cloud platforms and container platforms (preference noted for Azure, AWS, Tanzu, Kubernetes).
- Deep knowledge of API and microservice architecture patterns.
- Experience shaping AI-enabled architecture strategies including generative AI, agentic AI, ML model lifecycle, prompt engineering, RAG, and integration of AI into enterprise platforms.
- Understanding of responsible AI, AI risk management, model governance, explainability, data privacy, security controls, and production observability for AI systems.
- Experience with API Management Platforms and storefronts (e.g., APIGEE, Software AG).
- Experience with messaging/event streaming technologies such as Kafka, Solace, and/or MQ.
- Deep knowledge of architecture frameworks (TOGAF and/or Zachman) and applying frameworks across business, application, data, technology, security, cloud, and AI domains.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and data platforms (examples: Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, data lakehouse, cloud data services).
- Familiarity with software development methodologies and tools: Agile, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, ADO Boards, Maven/Gradle, CI/CD, MLOps, LLMOps, architecture-as-code practices.
- Experience with DevOps best practices and pipeline automation; Azure DevOps and Atlassian Suite preferred.
- Knowledge of the financial services industry and Northern Trust products/services.
- Strong knowledge of security frameworks and controls.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- MBA or Master's degree preferred.
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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