at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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.
Job Posting Title : Sr Lead, Arch Solutions
Job Description Summary : Guides the development, specification and communication of application or infrastructure architectures used by multiple business or application systems. Provides extensive, in-depth, technical consultation to the clients, partners, and IT Management to develop plans and directions to assure the integration of corporate business area requirements. Act as project manager for major projects
Job Description : Major Duties:
- Thoroughly understands decision process issues of technology choice, such as capacities, response time, data interfacing, client server communication, etc.
- Evaluates and selects from existing and emerging technologies those options best fitting business/project needs.
- Work with Business and Principal Solution/Enterprise Architects to ensure that the solution meets the strategic direction and intent of the Enterprise. Use such feedback and guidance to take the preliminary solution design for Design Authority review.
- Promotes sharing of expertise through consulting, presentations, and documentations, etc.
- Experienced, functional expert with technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise
- Consult with technology and business stakeholders to evaluate and recommend techniques, practices, and technologies to ensure efficient, flexible and resilient application architectures.
- Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues.
- Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to help improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity.
- Strategic in developing, implementing and administering programs within functional areas
- Provides leadership and guidance to staff, fostering an environment that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and communication.
- Participates in the building of new and on-going vendor relationships.
Experience:
1. A college or university degree in Computer Science and/or related discipline is required including a minimum of fourteen or more years of work experience in information system development and solution/technical architecture.
2. The ideal candidate should have relevant experience in the Financial Services industry.
- Payment System Experience and familiarity with payment processing lifecycle and workflows.
- Experience in providing solutions to integrate with various payment clearing schemes. Exposure to Fedwire, ACH, CHAPS, CHIPS, SWIFT, RITS will be valued.
- Experience in integrating payment platforms with inhouse or homegrown application using modern integration patterns.
- Familiarity with ISO 20022 and High Value and Low Value Payments
3. Multi-year experience in below areas would be favorable.
- Familiarity with Architecture frameworks and techniques like TOGAF, UML and C4.
- Recent technical experience in any of the OO programming language is a must....
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
