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.
Role: Enterprise Architect - Azure Cloud Platform
Description:
The Transaction Processing and Settlements team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Azure Cloud Solutions Architect to join our team. You will play a crucial role in Architecting, Designing and leading implementation of solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. You will be responsible for defining the Solution Architecture for enterprise grade solutions on Azure, following the Azure Well-Architected Framework and recommending solution patterns and practices for your team. You will have a direct impact on public Cloud adoption, Agile and DevOps maturity within our Business Unit. The role will require you to be hands-on with Azure products and work across a broad spectrum of technologies, collaborating with Enterprise Architects, Cloud Engineering , Business Architects and Product teams.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the Architecture and Design of Business solutions implemented on Microsoft Azure
- Provide guidance on various Public Cloud solution options, discuss benefits/risks and provide recommendations that align with strategic business needs
- Provide thought leadership, recommendations and roadmaps for large transformation and greenfield programs on Azure Public Cloud
- Assess and provide recommendations on various cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- Drive Proof of Concepts, map solution options to business problems and aid in defining business value and benefits
- Collaborate with application engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure requirements and best practices are reflected in the Azure solution design
- Provide architecture guidance based on the Azure Well-Architected Framework to help build reliable, secure and cost effective workloads in Azure
- Be proactive in keeping the team informed around cloud industry best practices
- Collaborate with stakeholders, recognize challenges, and proactively offer solutions
- Mentor team on cloud architecture principles, best practices and emerging technologies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
- 15+ years proven IT experience with at least 5+ years of solid hands-on experience in architecting cloud solutions, including design and deployment of workloads on Microsoft Azure
Requirements:
- Extensive experience with implementing solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform
- Prior consulting experience with large-scale implementations on Azure
- Experience with cloud deployment, technical and security architecture, database architecture, virtualization, software design, networking, DevOps and DevSecOps
- Strong expertise in cloud architecture, design, including fault tolerance, scalability, and globally highly available systems
- Strong understanding of Cloud Native design principles and modern architectures (e.g. event driven architectures, stream processing, event sourcing/CQRS)
- Familiarity with cloud migration strategies...
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