Sr Principal (Specialist), Cyber Recovery Architect

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.Sr Principal (Specialist), Cyber Recovery ArchitectThis position is responsible for driving and guiding adoption of strategic imperatives across the Global Technology Infrastructure organization.The successful candidate has a strong IT cross-functional background and experience in managing organizations that deliver complex technical solutions.Knowledge/SkillsMulti-disciplinary IT practitioner with strong knowledge of strategic program design, expertise in systems engineering, security and required competencies.Skilled in translating broad strategic intent into actionable plans and directions to enable delivery.Authoritative knowledge of technology architecture across Data Center technologies, including networking, system administration, application and information security fundamentals.Excellent leadership, organizational skills and management skills.Ability to work in matrix organization to drive change and gain agreement to achieve objectives.Excellent negotiation and conflict management skills and experience working with senior stakeholders.Excellent writing, problem solving, presentation and storytelling skills.Major DutiesDevelop Data Center strategy incorporating cloud adoption & recoverability and resiliency from all forms of disaster modes including Cyber-Events.Partner with infrastructure managers, solution architects and information security to design future state end to end platforms.Plan, develop, organize, monitor and deliver services and projects. Produce quality deliverables including requirements, test plans, and design documentation.Interact closely with the Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, Business Unit Chief Architects and Information Security to standardize technology patterns.Deliver end-to-end technical resiliency solutions to the organization, utilizing the latest technologies and leveraging automation mechanisms for reducing recovery times.Align with cloud strategy work to determine applicability of private, hybrid and public cloud delivery.Align infrastructure to information security roadmap.Partner with line of business CIOs to enable delivery of platform change in optimal way.Collaborate with vendors to achieve business outcomes.Job Requirements:Thorough knowledge of distributed systems and ability to understand system interactions and dependencies.Ability to understand and plan for infrastructure to support AI/ML, Blockchain & other emerging technologies.Ability to multi-task across areas of responsibility, projects, BAU work.Deliver high resiliency and near-zero downtime requirements for systems.Ongoing awareness of technology trends and take appropriate steps to position Northern Trust to take advantage of these trends.ExperienceRequires a college or university degree and/or relevant proven work experience, organizational, leadership, and management skills.Extensive experience, that has been developed over 15+ years, in change/design initiatives, covering such areas as operations, IT and product development; with a track record of accomplishment in large, complex projects and change initiatives.Strong experience in providing strategic direction, enterprise architecture and solution delivery.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. #MadeForGreaterReasonable accommodationNorthern 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.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.

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