Sr. Director, Cloud Foundations
Sr. Director, Cloud Foundations
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$ 205700 - 360100
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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 worlds 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 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Title: Cloud Foundations Leader
Job Summary:
Northern Trust is seeking an experienced and visionary Cloud Leader to drive the strategy design and implementation of foundational cloud capabilities across our enterprise. This role focuses on cloud infrastructure foundations platform engineering and enablement of scalable secure and resilient cloud services. You will lead a team of cloud engineers and collaborate closely with security architecture and development teams to ensure cloud environments are robust automated and aligned to business goals.
Key Responsibilities:
Cloud Foundations & Architecture
- Design and evolve cloud foundational architecture including VPC/VNET design account structure (e.g. Control Tower Organizations) IAM logging monitoring tagging and networking.
- Establish and enforce cloud platform standards blueprints and reusable patterns for infrastructure.
- Lead cloud landing zone design and manage ongoing operational readiness.
Platform Engineering & Automation
- Build and manage reusable infrastructure components using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform Cloud Formation ARM.
- Drive automation and CI/CD practices for cloud infrastructure and foundational services.
- Lead the adoption of modern DevOps GitOps and platform engineering practices to improve reliability and developer experience.
- Deliver self-service blueprints and reusable patterns for application teams.
Leadership & Enablement
- Lead mentor and grow a team of cloud engineers and platform specialists.
- Define and drive the cloud foundations vision and roadmap ensuring alignment with business and technology strategies.
- Collaborate with application teams to enable self-service infrastructure reusable pipelines and secure-by-default patterns.
- Champion cloud best practices and guide stakeholders on cloud-native and hybrid architectures.
Governance Security & Cost Optimization
- Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure cloud environments meet governance and regulatory standards.
- Define cloud governance models including policies for resource provisioning tagging and access.
- Implement automated security and compliance guardrails to reduce operational risk.
- Partner with security teams to ensure alignment with frameworks like CIS NIST or ISO 27001.
Required Qualifications:
- 12 years of IT experience with 5 years of hands-on cloud leadership.
- Strong understanding of core cloud services
- Experience building and managing scalable infrastructure using IaC tools (e.g. Terraform).
- Strong background in platform engineering DevOps and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with cloud networking multi-account strategies and landing zones.
- Solid grasp of cloud security IAM policies encryption and auditability.
- Proven leadership experience in leading cross-functional teams or engineering squads.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Multi-cloud experience.
- Familiarity with FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization.
- Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent.
- Experience in highly regulated industries (finance healthcare government).
Soft Skills & Traits:
- Strategic thinker with the ability to align engineering practices to business goals.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Passion for automation scalability and simplification.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
Salary Range:
$205700 - 360100 USDSalary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension) health and welfare benefits (medical dental vision spending accounts and disability) paid time off parental and caregiver leave life & accident insurance and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
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.
Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us andapply today.#MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern 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 .
We hope youre 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.
Required Experience:
Exec
Employment Type
Full-Time
