Principal Head of Compliance Architecture
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Chicago, IL - USA
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Job Summary
About Northern Trust
As a global leader in innovative wealth management asset servicing asset management and banking services Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the worlds most successful individuals families corporations and institutions.
Since 1889 we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service Expertise and Integrity. Together they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees whom we call partners and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.
With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Compliance Architect serves as the senior architecture authority across Financial Crimes Regulatory Compliance Regulatory Change portfolios along with expanding involvement with Legal / Audit technology portfolios. This role is accountable for establishing target-state architecture governing technology strategy accelerating platform modernization and ensuring regulatory technology solutions operate as an integrated ecosystem.
The architect provides strategic leadership across SaaS cloud-native hybrid and on-premise platforms; enterprise data environments; vendor solutions; engineering organizations; and compliance capabilities ensuring technology investments deliver scalable resilient secure and compliant business outcomes.
* Serves as the lead architecture authority for Financial Crimes Regulatory Compliance Regulatory Change portfolios providing technical leadership across Anti-Money Laundering (AML) KYC Sanctions Screening Fraud Prevention Ethics & Conduct Trade Surveillance Electronic Communications Surveillance Regulatory Change Management Compliance Risk Assessment Compliance Testing Compliance Monitoring capabilities.
* Establishes and maintains the target-state architecture vision across the portfolio ensuring technology solutions align with regulatory obligations business strategy enterprise architecture standards and long-term technology objectives.
* Develops portfolio-level architecture roadmaps and modernization strategies identifying opportunities for capability expansion platform rationalization cloud adoption technical debt reduction cost optimization and technology transformation.
* Defines and governs enterprise architecture principles engineering standards design patterns and technology reference architectures across SaaS cloud-native hybrid and on-premise environments.
* Leads evaluation and selection of strategic technology platforms and vendor solutions performing architecture due diligence and providing recommendations regarding scalability resiliency security integration complexity supportability and total cost of ownership.
* Establishes architecture standards and governance processes for commercial SaaS and internally developed solutions ensuring consistency across application integration data infrastructure and security domains.
* Designs and governs enterprise integration patterns across critical source systems including payment systems trade processing platforms client onboarding systems sanctions screening platforms master data management solutions regulatory reporting systems and operational platforms.
* Provides strategic oversight of enterprise data architecture including data acquisition transformation governance lineage quality analytics reporting and AI enablement capabilities leveraging technologies such as Snowflake Databricks cloud data platforms real-time streaming technologies and enterprise data ecosystems.
* Establishes architecture standards supporting modern cloud and distributed systems including API-led architectures event-driven integration microservices container platforms cloud-native services and platform engineering practices.
* Provides architectural leadership and governance for critical compliance technology platforms including AML and transaction monitoring solutions Actimize sanctions screening platforms fraud management solutions ServiceNow IRM regulatory change platforms surveillance technologies and audit automation capabilities.
* Drives enterprise resiliency recoverability and operational excellence initiatives including active-active architectures hot-hot disaster recovery models blue-green deployment strategies high availability design observability fault tolerance and business continuity readiness.
* Establishes and improves engineering discipline and software delivery practices including CI/CD pipelines DevSecOps operating models automated testing release governance engineering standards infrastructure-as-code software lifecycle management and technical debt governance.
* Participates in enterprise architecture review boards and design governance forums providing technical oversight and approval for strategic initiatives architecture exceptions platform roadmaps and major technology investments.
* Partners with Product Management Compliance Risk Audit Operations Cyber Security Infrastructure Data Management and Engineering organizations to ensure technology capabilities support strategic regulatory objectives and business outcomes.
* Provides leadership support to technical leads engineering managers and development teams fostering architecture consistency engineering excellence and operational maturity across the portfolio.
* Advises executive leadership on technology strategy emerging technologies architecture risks platform investment decisions modernization opportunities regulatory technology trends and enterprise technology direction.
* Carries out the most complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines technologies regulatory requirements and stakeholders while balancing business value risk cost and operational sustainability.
* Consistently displays a balanced cross-functional perspective liaising with business and technology leadership to improve efficiency effectiveness resilience risk management and organizational productivity.
* Highly flexible and adaptable to organizational regulatory technology and business change.
Requires extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture distributed systems cloud-native technologies financial services technology platforms regulatory technology ecosystems and modern software engineering practices.
Strong expertise required in:
- Familiarity with at least 2 of the three domains:
1. Financial Crimes Compliance technologies including AML KYC Sanctions Screening Transaction Monitoring Fraud Prevention and Case Management.
2. Regulatory Compliance capabilities including Trade Surveillance Electronic Communications Surveillance Ethics & Conduct Regulatory Reporting and Conduct Risk Management.
3. Regulatory Change and Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) platforms including Compliance Risk Assessment Compliance Testing Compliance Monitoring Regulatory Change Management and Audit Management. - Enterprise architecture disciplines including application architecture integration architecture data architecture infrastructure architecture security architecture and solution architecture.
- Cloud and hybrid technology platforms including cloud-native architectures microservices APIs event-driven systems containerization platform engineering and PCF/Kubernetes environments.
- Enterprise data architecture utilizing Snowflake Databricks data lakes data warehouses master data management metadata management AI enablement and advanced analytics platforms.
- Enterprise resiliency disaster recovery active-active architectures high availability blue-green deployments observability and operational readiness frameworks.
- Modern DevSecOps and software engineering disciplines including CI/CD automated testing infrastructure-as-code secure software delivery and software lifecycle governance.
- Vendor management and architecture governance for enterprise and regulatory technology platforms.
Requires exceptional analytical ability judgment communication skills executive presence negotiation skills and the ability to influence senior leaders across business compliance risk audit operations and technology functions.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related discipline and at least fifteen or more years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise architecture software engineering data architecture or technology leadership.
Experience should include:
- Enterprise architecture leadership across multiple business domains and technology portfolios.
- Financial services banking regulatory risk compliance audit or financial crimes technology environments.
- Delivery and governance of SaaS cloud-native hybrid and on-premise solutions.
- Enterprise data architecture data engineering analytics and integration platforms.
- Vendor solution evaluation architecture governance and technology modernization initiatives.
- Large-scale program and portfolio transformation efforts involving multiple technologies stakeholders and regulatory requirements.
- Architecture leadership across geographically distributed teams and complex enterprise environments.
- Influencing executive stakeholders and driving technology strategy at the portfolio or organizational level.
Salary Range:
$137400 - 233600 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.
Work Authorization
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B L-1 TN O-1 E-3 H-1B1 F-1 J-1 OPT CPT or any other employment-based visa).
Working with Us
As a Northern Trust partner you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.
Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trusts history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.
Reasonable Accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please email our HR Service Center at or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.
Required Experience:
Director
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