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.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
Technology Resiliency Architect is a senior hands-on architect responsible for embedding resiliency by design across the enterprise technology landscape. The role leads development, governance, and implementation of enterprise resiliency architecture standards across on-premises infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS platforms. Serving as a technical authority in Architecture Review Boards (ARB), this position partners with Business Unit architects and engineering teams to translate enterprise resiliency strategy into practical implementation guidance through Resiliency Implementation Guidelines (RIGs)
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Hybrid Architecture Expertise
- On-Premises: data center resiliency, server/storage redundancy, DB failover, network patterns
- Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP): multi-region, automated failover, cross-region replication
- Private Cloud: VMware virtualization resiliency, storage and compute HA
- SaaS: vendor resiliency assessments, failover capabilities, third-party DR validation
Well-Architected Resiliency Assessments
- Lead resiliency reviews identifying architectural weaknesses and risks
- Assess recovery capabilities against defined RTO and RPO targets
- Develop remediation strategies and resiliency uplift roadmaps
Engineering & Automation Alignment
- Promote IaC (Terraform, Ansible), DR automation, and recovery orchestration
- Drive configuration/drift management and automated recovery testing
Regulatory & Risk Alignment
- Ensure architecture standards support operational resilience requirements
- Provide architectural evidence for audit and regulatory reviews
- Collaborate with governance and risk teams to strengthen resiliency controls
Enterprise Resiliency Architecture
- Design resilient architectures across on-prem, private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS
- Develop patterns for high availability, disaster recovery (DR), and data protection
- Identify and eliminate single points of failure in Tier-0 and mission-critical systems
Resiliency Implementation Guidelines (RIGs)
- Define technical standards and reusable architecture blueprints covering:
- DR, PiTR, backup/restore, database resiliency, messaging (Kafka, MQ, Solace)
- Hybrid cloud recovery, storage replication, application failover patterns
Architecture Governance & ARB
- Core ARB member — review designs for resiliency compliance and risk
- Identify vulnerabilities, recommend remediation, enforce enterprise patterns
- Act as technical gatekeeper for resiliency across all major initiatives
Business Unit Engagement
- Provide hands-on architecture support for critical applications and platforms
- Lead architecture design workshops with BU technology teams
- Advise on DR, PiTR, and failover strategies for resilient hybrid architectures
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Professional Experience
- 10+ years in enterprise, infrastructure, or solution architecture
- Proven experience designing resilient hybrid architectures at large enterprise scale
- Experience supporting architecture governance frameworks and ARB processes
- Financial services or highly regulated industry experience preferred
Infrastructure & Platforms
- Data center infrastructure and storage/compute resiliency patterns
- Server virtualization platforms (VMware / private cloud)
- Network resiliency and redundancy architectures
Cloud Architecture
- Public cloud platforms — AWS, Azure, GCP
- Hybrid and multi-region cloud architectures
- Cloud DR strategies and automated failover patterns
Recovery & Continuity
- Disaster Recovery architecture and backup/restore platforms
- Database recovery, replication, and PiTR implementations
- Messaging resiliency — Kafka, MQ, Solace
Architecture Governance
- Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and standards development
- Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or equivalent)
Preferred Experience
- Enterprise resiliency transformation initiatives
- SRE and reliability engineering frameworks
- Observability and monitoring platforms
- Cyber recovery and isolated recovery architectures
KEY COMPETENCIES
Deep technical architecture expertise
- Translates strategy into actionable design patterns
- Strong hands-on engineering mindset
- Strong collaboration with engineering teams
- Ability to influence across large organizations
- Drives resiliency culture across the enterprise
SUCCESS METRICS & ROLE IMPACT
Performance Measured By
- Adoption of enterprise Resiliency Implementation Guidelines (RIGs)
- Reduction of architectural single points of failure
- Architecture compliance through ARB governance
- Improved recovery capabilities across critical services
- Successful remediation of resiliency architecture gaps
Role Impact
This role plays a critical part in ensuring the enterprise can withstand and rapidly recover from technology disruptions — including cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, and cloud service outages. Through architecture leadership, governance, and engineering partnership, this position establishes a resiliency-first technology culture across the organization.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)
Salary Range:
$137,400 - 233,600 USDSalary 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 [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.
Skills Required
- 10+ years in enterprise, infrastructure, or solution architecture
- Proven experience designing resilient hybrid architectures at large enterprise scale
- Experience supporting architecture governance frameworks and ARB processes
- Financial services or highly regulated industry experience
- Data center infrastructure and storage/compute resiliency patterns
- Server virtualization platforms (VMware / private cloud)
- Network resiliency and redundancy architectures
- Public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Hybrid and multi-region cloud architectures
- Cloud DR strategies and automated failover patterns
- Disaster recovery architecture and backup/restore platforms
- Database recovery, replication, and point-in-time recovery (PiTR) implementations
- Messaging resiliency (Kafka, MQ, Solace)
- Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and standards development
- Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or equivalent)
- Experience with IaC and automation (Terraform, Ansible) and DR automation/recovery orchestration
- Authorized to work in the U.S. without employment-based visa sponsorship
- Enterprise resiliency transformation initiatives
- SRE and reliability engineering frameworks
- Observability and monitoring platforms
- Cyber recovery and isolated recovery architectures
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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