Northern Trust · 2 weeks ago
Sr. Principal, Data Architect
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$137K/yr - $240K/yr
15+ years expNorthern Trust is a globally recognized financial institution that has been in operation since 1889. The Sr. Principal, Data Architect role involves creating and maintaining scalable data architectures, collaborating with teams to document use cases, and leading data solutions while providing guidance and consultation to internal stakeholders.
BankingFinanceFinancial ServicesWealth Management
Responsibilities
Creating and maintaining high performance, scalable, and stable data architectures
Research new database methods and technologies to fully utilize platform features
Collaborating with internal customers, development teams, and product management to identify and document use case scenarios
Lead on all data solution aspects including solving complex problems, setting data standards and providing technical expertise to development teams for best practices, systems, and architecture
Handles the most complex IT data architecture projects involving multiple disciplines or ambiguous IT architecture issues. Coordinates with users to determine requirements
Provides comprehensive consultation, training and guidance to business unit, less experienced staff, and IT systems architecture
Design data architectures and solutions that are available and scalable
Design effective data store solutions that account for effective capacity planning, data tiering, and data life-cycle management
Design automated data ingestion procedures for on-premises and cloud data sources
Ensure the successful delivery of solutions, training, and documentation to internal data team
Recommend solutions to improve new and existing data storage and analytic systems
Participate in code reviews and create documentation for engineering and cross-functional practices
Qualification
Required
Specialized knowledge of data architecture, excellent consultative skills, strong analytical skills and ability to work effectively with clients, management and team members
Demonstrated experiences in architecture of enterprise level data solutions
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer or data program or related experience
15+ years relational database design experiences including Azure, SQL Server, and Oracle
5-10 years experience with cloud data services (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, Snowflake)
Large scale data warehouse design experience
10+ years ETL experience
Shell scripting, python experience
Experiences in migrating traditional database to cloud platforms
Experience in team management, communication, and presentation
Experience with Azure (ADF, ADLS, Synapse, Databricks)
Understand Data Governance as well as experience with Collibra and/or other data governance tools
Preferred
Experience with Data Mesh and data platform modernization a plus
Experience with Data Lake architectures is a plus
Experiences with Predictive Analytics a plus
Project management experience a plus
Benefits
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
Other voluntary and well-being benefits
Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component
Company
Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a global leader in delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.25B2025-11-20Post Ipo Debt· $1.25B
1978-01-13IPO
Leadership Team
Michael O'Grady
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Peter Cherecwich
Chief Operating Officer
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