Business Solutions Architect | Enterprise Architecture

at  Northern Trust Corp

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/ Department:

The Enterprise Architecture Solutions Consulting group is an internal management consulting function that helps drive Northern Trust’s technology strategy and is part of Enterprise Architecture in IT (Information Technology). The engagements are varied and, so far this year:

• Defining strategies and supporting execution for mainframe migration
• Driving modernisation and digital transformation road mapping
• Cloud readiness assessment, enablement and migration
• Business Architecture for key strategic initiatives
• Road mapping for emerging technology adoption
• Driving Cloud Learning strategy and development of Digital Quotient across the organisation

The consulting engagements are often complex and cross-business unit in nature supporting delivery teams to develop business cases, define the solution architecture and select appropriate vendors and solutions.
This is a perfect opportunity for a consultant who wants to help ensure the outcomes from their engagements are realized. The ideal candidate would have a combination of 3 things:
Management consulting experience.
Broad IT experience or enterprise architecture experience.

This may also be an interesting opportunity for:

• A proven business leader who has recently acquired an advanced degree in technology, computer science, data analytics or data science; or
• An experienced technology practitioner who has recently acquired an advanced degree in business, management, finance, or leadership.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Engage with the business and technology teams to meet demand across multiple concurrent priorities.
• Execute complex initiatives that have significant ambiguity or lack clarity and definition
• Lead project or initiative discovery process to define clear objectives and create initial plans.
• Learn, Understand and Explain complex business issues, forming options for near- and long-term solutions.
• Interact closely with the Enterprise Architecture team regarding enterprise vision and strategy execution
• Support large, multi-year strategic technology initiatives, and work effectively with business and technology stakeholders to deliver outcomes

Skills/ Qualifications:

The successful candidate will benefit from having the following expertise:

• Translated a broad strategy or strategic intent into clear delivery plans and a sequence of action
• Curiosity around both financial industry trends and emerging technologies with a view towards recommending adoption towards a leading edge
• Defined their own engagements identifying deliverables, making, and keeping commitments while transparently managing expectations
• Solved complex business problems through analysis and data driven approaches - – experience with modelling with PowerBI and Dashboards an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills, especially storytelling, or “narrative” combined with visual and presentation development
• Passion for technology and understanding and experience with key industry trends and emerging technologies – in particular Cloud Architecture, in addition to Data, Security, and AI (Artificial Intelligence).
• Knowledge working across IT areas such as strategic program design, agile/product management, expertise in solution delivery, IT Service Management. Expect some experience with enterprise architecture fundamentals:
• Business architecture – mapping strategy to execution - e.g. business capability mapping
• Systems and technical architecture – integration patterns, evolution to cloud architectures
• Data architecture – understand business intelligence / analytics and data as a service models
• Strong experience in management consulting providing strategic direction, enterprise architecture and solution delivery to clients
• Cloud experience (Azure preferred) and experience with Azure DevOps/Boards.

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
MyHRHelp@ntrs.com
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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

• Engage with the business and technology teams to meet demand across multiple concurrent priorities.
• Execute complex initiatives that have significant ambiguity or lack clarity and definition
• Lead project or initiative discovery process to define clear objectives and create initial plans.
• Learn, Understand and Explain complex business issues, forming options for near- and long-term solutions.
• Interact closely with the Enterprise Architecture team regarding enterprise vision and strategy execution
• Support large, multi-year strategic technology initiatives, and work effectively with business and technology stakeholders to deliver outcome