Enterprise Architect Principal

JOB REQUIREMENTS: At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference. Northwestern Mutual (NM) is seeking an Enterprise Architect Principal to join our growing Cloud Platform team. The Cloud Platform team harnesses the power of the public cloud to empower our organization, enabling teams to develop digital solutions for both our clients and internal customers. Our platforms and experiences drive business acceleration through the valuable abstraction of consistent patterns, robust automation, and a steadfast commitment to delivering value. We prioritize collaboration, scalability, compliance, and user focus, ensuring that our cloud solutions meet the evolving needs of our organization and enhance the end-user experience. Summary As a Principal Architect in the Cloud and DevOps organization, you are a recognized expert in multiple technology domains and represent the senior technical leadership within the organization. You will drive the direction of the technology strategy for our Cloud platform, assisting CDO leaders and other senior technical leaders in creating strategic roadmaps and setting priorities to help our engineering partners execute our multi-year strategy. Primary Duties & Responsibilities: Set the strategy on teams\' service offerings in collaboration with technical products and engineering that support NM\'s business strategies and outcomes, aligning with technology target state architecture while keeping in lockstep with cloud service providers (CSP) product and feature releases. Teach, mentor, grow, and advise other domain experts, and individual contributors, across several teams in our organization. Lead complex programs that span departments and divisions and act as a single point of accountability for execution and delivery by working backward from the desired outcome. Ability to collaborate and provide leadership in a larger group of technical/engineering leads, Directors, and VPs and be accountable for owning the planning/program to drive efforts towards defined outcomes that align with strategic business goals. A recognized thought leader in their organization in current and legacy technologies like Application Platforms (e.g., Cloud platform vs. Legacy Platform models), CI/CD tooling and practices, Integration patterns, or Master Data Management. Ensures key architectural patterns, engineering practices, and standards are used and drive them across the organization in partnership with EA and ESD. Participates in EA\'s Federated Architecture roundtable. Ensures business department projects align with the department\'s long-term priorities (connect projects to strategy) Applies broader organization, process, and technology opportunities to a business department with an \"innovation mindset.\" Assumes a lead role in Identifying... For full info follow application link. EEO/AA Employer/Vets/Disability ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/45507BB2DF4648CB Qualified females, minorities, and special disabled veterans and other veterans are encouraged to apply.