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About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management
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The Principal - Head of Compliance Architecture serves as the senior architecture authority for Financial Crimes, Regulatory Compliance, and Regulatory Change portfolios. This role establishes target-state architecture, governs technology strategy, and accelerates platform modernization to ensure regulatory technology solutions operate as an integrated ecosystem. The architect designs and governs enterprise integration patterns, data architecture, and engineering standards across SaaS, cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premise environments. Key responsibilities include leading portfolio-level modernization, evaluating vendor solutions, and overseeing critical platforms like Actimize and ServiceNow IRM. The role requires expertise in Snowflake, Databricks, microservices, and API-led architectures. The position solves complex business problems by aligning technology investments with regulatory obligations, ensuring scalable, resilient, and secure outcomes for AML, KYC, sanctions screening, and trade surveillance capabilities.
Serve as the lead architecture authority for Financial Crimes, Regulatory Compliance, and Regulatory Change portfolios.
Establish and maintain the target-state architecture vision to align technology with regulatory obligations and business strategy.
Develop portfolio-level architecture roadmaps for modernization, cloud adoption, and technical debt reduction.
Define and govern enterprise architecture principles, engineering standards, and design patterns across hybrid and cloud environments.
Lead the evaluation and selection of strategic technology platforms and vendor solutions through architecture due diligence.
Design and govern enterprise integration patterns for critical systems like payment processing and sanctions screening.
Provide strategic oversight of enterprise data architecture, including governance, lineage, and AI enablement capabilities.
Drive enterprise resiliency initiatives including active-active architectures, disaster recovery models, and high availability designs.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
At least fifteen years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise architecture, software engineering, data architecture, or technology leadership.
Extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and financial services technology platforms.
Expertise in at least two of the following: Financial Crimes Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, or Regulatory Change and GRC platforms.
Proficiency in cloud and hybrid platforms including microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, containerization, and PCF/Kubernetes environments.
Experience in enterprise data architecture using Snowflake, Databricks, data lakes, and master data management.
Experience in modern DevSecOps, including CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and software lifecycle governance.