Cyber Security Principal Architect

Northern Trust • Chicago, IL

75d

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills are required
• Knowledge of information security, software development, database systems and information technology concepts; strong knowledge of IDM industry standards, awareness and understanding of IDM products in the market
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Highly flexible and adaptable to change
• Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Business Unit's goals, resources needed, and to assess and develop the skills of staff. Experience managing teams including architects, developers, QA, consultants etc., in large cross-functional team setting and large complex project scope
• A College or University degree and/or relevant proven work experience is required.
• Strong enterprise technology experience involving J2EE stack, PCF cloud based architecture, DB Modeling.
• Experience in implementing IDM use cases like Identity processing, Access request, Access certification, Approval workflows, Provisioning connectors (like AD, LDAP, Exchange) etc.

Nice To Haves

• Industry certification such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, Cisco, SANS, etc is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide planning, development, organization, monitoring, oversight and delivery of services and projects. Develops quality deliverables including codes, unit tests, and support documentation.
• Provide application architectural and big picture oversight for development of new or enhanced technology solutions
• Assists architect in the technical design and other team members with their development efforts. Technical support through Development, Testing, and Deployment phases of projects
• Reviews documents, processes or procedures, and recommends where automation or improvements can be implemented
• Ensures that all supported systems and applications maintain the availability standard
• Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and / or business knowledge and functional expertise
• Focus of role is on execution of strategic direction of business function activities
• Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues
• Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees