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.
Role Summary
We are seeking a Principal Solutions Architect - Data to provide architectural leadership across enterprise data, reporting, and analytics initiatives. The role will define scalable solutions across data platforms, integration services, semantic models, and business intelligence while ensuring security, governance, performance, and operational readiness.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end solution and data architecture, including target-state designs, conceptual and logical data models, integration patterns, data flows, security controls, lineage, and technology standards.
- Partner with enterprise architects and governance teams to guide solutions through Permit to Design, Permit to Build, and Permit to Operate, ensuring design, security, risk, infrastructure, support, and operational-readiness requirements are addressed.
- Define scalable engineering and integration patterns across Snowflake, cloud platforms, APIs, batch processing, and event-driven services, balancing resilience, performance, security, and cost.
- Own reporting and analytics architecture, including Performance Reporting, Client Reporting, Power BI, and semantic models. Establish standards for Import, DirectQuery, hybrid models, aggregation, incremental refresh, caching, and query optimization.
- Lead resolution of complex performance issues across source systems, data platforms, transformations, calculation layers, semantic models, and Power BI.
- Define measurable non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, availability, resilience, data freshness, observability, security, supportability, and cost.
- Establish reusable patterns for data modeling, metadata, lineage, data quality, auditability, governance, and access control to reduce technical debt.
- Provide architectural leadership across client, account, product, legal agreement, performance, benchmark, reference, and other strategic data domains.
- Act as a senior design authority by reviewing solutions, challenging technical choices, identifying risks and dependencies, mentoring teams, and communicating decisions to business and technology stakeholders.
- Maintain concise architecture deliverables, including diagrams, data models, integration flows, architecture decisions, deployment views, and operational-readiness documentation.
Required Experience and Qualifications
- Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and data-driven applications.
- Deep expertise in Snowflake, data warehousing, relational and dimensional modeling, ETL/ELT, metadata, lineage, data quality, and audit controls.
- Strong experience with Power BI architecture, semantic models, DAX, Import and DirectQuery patterns, incremental refresh, aggregation, and performance optimization.
- Experience diagnosing performance across SQL, transformation, semantic, and visualization layers.
- Experience with cloud architecture, APIs, services, batch and event-driven integration, security, observability, and operational resilience.
- Proven ability to define target-state architecture, reusable technical patterns, roadmaps, and measurable non-functional requirements.
- Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Technical Skills
- Data & Analytics: Snowflake, advanced SQL, Power BI, semantic modeling, DAX, ETL/ELT, data warehousing, data modeling, performance optimization, metadata, lineage, and data quality.
- Cloud & Integration: Microsoft Azure, cloud-native architecture, REST APIs, microservices, batch and event-driven integration, security, Key Vault/secrets management, observability, and resiliency patterns.
- Application Engineering: Python, FastAPI or similar service frameworks, React, TypeScript/JavaScript, and modern application architecture patterns.
- Architecture & Governance: Solution and data architecture, architecture lifecycle governance including Permit to Design, Permit to Build, and Permit to Operate, non-functional requirements, security architecture, operational readiness, and architecture decision records.
- Engineering Practices: CI/CD, DevSecOps, source control, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code concepts, production supportability, and performance monitoring.
- Leadership: Architecture reviews, design authority, technical roadmaps, mentoring, stakeholder communication, and collaboration across engineering, security, infrastructure, data governance, and enterprise architecture teams.
Preferred Experience
- Investment management, asset management, financial services, or another highly governed data environment.
- Performance and client reporting, benchmark and reference data, account and client hierarchies, and legal-entity or agreement data.
- Modernization of legacy reporting and analytics solutions, architecture governance, data catalogs, business glossaries, and regulatory reporting.
- Applied knowledge of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and modern analytics within established security and governance standards.
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 Bangalore Office
The Northern Trust Bangalore office, established in 2005, is home to over 5,600 employees. In this stunning office space, we offer fantastic amenities which include our Arrival Hub - Jungle, the GameZone, and the Employee Experience Zone that appeal to both clients and employees. Learn more.
Skills Required
- Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and data-driven applications
- Deep expertise in Snowflake, data warehousing, relational and dimensional modeling, ETL/ELT, metadata, lineage, data quality, and audit controls
- Strong experience with Power BI architecture, semantic models, DAX, Import and DirectQuery patterns, incremental refresh, aggregation, and performance optimization
- Experience diagnosing performance across SQL, transformation, semantic, and visualization layers
- Experience with cloud architecture, APIs, services, batch and event-driven integration, security, observability, and operational resilience
- Ability to define target-state architecture, reusable technical patterns, roadmaps, and measurable non-functional requirements
- Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience in investment management, asset management, financial services, or another highly governed data environment
- Experience with performance and client reporting, benchmark and reference data, account and client hierarchies, and legal-entity or agreement data
- Experience modernizing legacy reporting and analytics solutions, architecture governance, data catalogs, business glossaries, and regulatory reporting
- Applied knowledge of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and modern analytics within established security and governance standards
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 — A 401(k) with company match alongside an employer‑funded defined‑benefit pension is highlighted in employer‑verified materials and filings, setting the retirement package apart from many private employers.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is portrayed as solid overall, and two paid volunteer days per year are clearly documented across corporate materials.
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Parental & Family Support — Company sources and postings reference paid parental and caregiver leave and recent enhancements to parental benefits, indicating meaningful family support within the package.
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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