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.
Head of NTAM Technology Architecture
The Head of Asset Management Technology Architecture will be responsible for the definition and application of best practices on driving the overall strategy, governance, architecture patterns/ principles and processes to maximize the impact of technology in support of business priorities and growth. Working at the intersection of business and technology, will work alongside business, operations, data and technology leadership to define holistic strategies that combine business objectives with technology solutions. This leader will also be responsible for enterprise wide collaboration and ensuring full compliance and adherence to security, cyber risks and controls activities in addition to supporting resiliency & change objectives.
Key focus areas include:
- Enterprise (Business Unit) Architecture Strategy: developing the frameworks for articulating and documenting business architecture and technology capabilities supporting NT Asset Management
- Technology Strategy and Roadmap - collaborate with key business, operational and data leaders to help develop / maintain IT strategy/application roadmaps (e,g, modernization, application rationalization, end of life management, digital growth) aligned to business priorities
- Architecture Governance - Oversee various technology councils and forums to ensure adherence to corporate governance process and provide executive leadership with visibility into program performance / decisions rendered
- Technology Risk & Controls: key partnership with Cyber, Info Sec, Risks teams to address any issues, decisions, actions and investments required to support adherence and remediations to Global IT Risks & Controls
- Cloud Strategy: enabling NTAM to leverage advanced cloud capabilities to deliver modern IT-based services, including infrastructure, applications, platforms and business processes at optimized cost.
- Technology Innovation: exploring new and emerging technologies to create a vision of how technology will shape the future and invent the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions
- Digital Operating Model: Drive maturity of DevOps / SecOps execution model within technology teams to drive operational and risk excellence
Responsibilities
- Design technology strategy based on business objectives and stakeholder analysis including adopting appropriate approach/methods, facilitation techniques, artifacts and deliverables
- Responsible for the development/update, communication, adoption and governance of the enterprise and business unit specific technology principles, standards and guidelines.
- Lead the development of IT capability roadmaps, technology roadmaps, and technology lifecycle roadmaps.
- Partner with product leadership, engineering and operations to deliver enterprise solutions that adhere to enterprise standards, support capabilities, and align with future strategy.
- Work closely with the IT Security team to insure overall security of all engineered solutions is addressed.
- Facilitate the adoption...
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