Technology Resiliency Architect at Northern Trust

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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) . 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 stra