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.

Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) business unit is looking for Data Solutions Architect with strong expertise building data centered application. The role is high touch position with a notable amount of collaboration across teams in defining business solutions.

This individual is a multi-tasker at heart, with strong communication skills and a problem-solving mindset that thrives in a fast-paced organization. The ideal candidate would engage NTAM business leaders, understanding business needs and providing solutions.

Key skills required for the role:

• Expertise in designing data driven solution on Snowflake for complex business needs.


• Background working with key data domains as account, holding and performance within asset management space.


• Design the database, data models, ETL processes, and data warehouse applications through the use of best practices to ensure smooth business operation.


• Responsible for overall data architecture for all areas and domains of the enterprise, including data acquisition, data warehouse, data provisioning, and ETL.


• Expert level understanding of relational database concepts, dimensional database concepts and database architecture and design, ontology and taxonomy design.


• Knowledge of ETL patterns for data ingestion, processing, distribution and reporting.


• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Business or Finance or equivalent experience.


• Intellectual curiosity, inclination for independent and self-directed work, and attention to detail.


• Manage relationships with stakeholders and executive leadership to achieve business outcomes.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Drive adoption of strategic data platform with strong understanding of IBOR/ABOR dataset sourced from Aladdin, CDG, Eagle and Custodial systems.


• Provide design level functional and technical expertise along with best practices.


• Understand and implement the latest delivery approaches based on data architecture


• Manage relationships with all stakeholders, with a focus on setting expectations and maintaining ongoing client satisfaction through effective communication and a strong commitment to customer service.


• Leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.


• Mentor engineering team on data input, use and analysis leveraging technical pattern.


• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt. Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture.


• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.


• Contribute to a fast-paced Agile team and participate in multiple aspects of planning, documentation, execution, testing and launch of projects.


• Examine data, processes, and technologies to determine the current state and critical problems of internal business functions.


• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models for large scale technology platforms.

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. #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 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.