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 Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Program Executive to lead our technology refresh initiatives, including legacy modernization and platform / hardware lifecycle management. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies to retire legacy systems such as the mainframe, AS400, and data centers. They will also be responsible for managing the lifecycle of our platforms and hardware.
Major Duties
- Develop and implement strategies to retire legacy systems such as the mainframe, AS400, and data centers.
- In partnership with our digital modernization office, enterprise architecture, cloud platform and risk teams execute program management and coordinate across the enterprise to ensure NT maintains current and supportable technology and well-coordinated modernization initiatives
- Manage the lifecycle of our platforms and hardware.
- Develop and maintain a technology refresh roadmap.
- Work with stakeholders to identify and prioritize technology refresh initiatives.
- Develop and maintain a technology refresh budget.
- Manage the technology refresh program, including project management, risk management, and change management.
- Ensure that technology refresh initiatives are aligned with the organization's strategic goals.
- Develop and maintain relationships with vendors and partners.
- Ensure that technology refresh initiatives are compliant with regulatory requirements.
- Develop and maintain a technology refresh governance framework in partnership with our 1LOD risk management and 2LOD risk functions.
- Develop and maintain a technology refresh communication plan.
- Develop and maintain a technology refresh training plan in partnership with tech learning and development
- Directs the resolution of highly complex or unusual business problems applying advanced critical thinking
- Guided by organization functional strategy, has broad impact on the functional, divisional or regional results
Knowledge :
- Applies broad industry knowledge and commercial awareness to drive financial performance.
- Negotiates with senior leaders across the business
- Prior hands on or architecture experience in mainframe, AS400, and distributed technologies and related security
- Large-complex program execution experience with scopes involving more multiple global stakeholders and managing $300MM-500MM/yr of investment
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in technology refresh, legacy modernization, and platform / hardware lifecycle management.
- Experience in developing and implementing technology refresh strategies.
- Experience in managing technology refresh programs.
- Experience in project management, risk management, and change management.
- Experience in developing and maintaining relationships with vendors and partners.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
