Principal, Data Architect

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.

The data modeler and architect will be a member of the Technology Data and Analytics team to design, implement, and document data architecture and data modeling solutions, which include the use of relational, dimensional, and NoSQL databases. These solutions support enterprise information management, business intelligence, machine learning, data science, and other business interests.

The successful candidate will:

- Be responsible for the development of the conceptual, logical, and physical data models, the implementation of RDBMS, operational data store (ODS), data marts, and data lakes on target platforms.

- Oversee and govern the expansion of existing data architecture and the optimization of data pipelines, and query performance via best practices. The candidate must be able to work independently and collaboratively.

Responsibilities:

- Implement business and IT data requirements through new data strategies and designs across all data platforms and data tools (reporting, visualization, analytics, and machine learning).

- Work with business and application/solution teams to implement data strategies, build data flows, and develop conceptual/logical/physical data models

- Define and govern data modeling and design standards, tools, best practices, and related development for enterprise data models.

- Identify the architecture, infrastructure, and interfaces to data sources, tools supporting automated data loads, security concerns, analytic models, and data visualization.

- Hands-on modeling, design, configuration, installation, performance tuning, and sandbox POC.

- Work proactively and independently to address project requirements and articulate issues/challenges to reduce project delivery risks.

- Creating and maintaining high performance, scalable, and stable data architectures

- Research new database methods and technologies to fully utilize platform features

- Working with internal customers, development teams, and product management to identify and document use case scenarios

- Lead on all data solution aspects including setting data standards and providing technical expertise to development teams for best practices, systems, and architectures

- Design data architectures and solutions that are highly 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

Salary Range:

Salary 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.

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.