Technology Resiliency Architect

Northern Trust

Senior Architect embedding resiliency by design across technology landscape at Northern Trust. Leading implementation of resilience architecture standards across on-prem, private and public cloud, and SaaS platforms.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $137,400 - $233,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaTerraformVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Embedding resiliency by design across the enterprise technology landscape
Leading development, governance, and implementation of enterprise resiliency architecture standards
Serving as a technical authority in Architecture Review Boards (ARB)
Partnering with Business Unit architects and engineering teams to translate enterprise resiliency strategy into practical implementation guidance
Leading resiliency reviews identifying architectural weaknesses and risks
Assessing recovery capabilities against defined RTO and RPO targets
Developing remediation strategies and resiliency uplift roadmaps
Promoting IaC (Terraform, Ansible), DR automation, and recovery orchestration
Driving configuration/drift management and automated recovery testing
Ensuring architecture standards support operational resilience requirements
Providing architectural evidence for audit and regulatory reviews
Collaborating with governance and risk teams to strengthen resiliency controls
Developing patterns for high availability, disaster recovery (DR), and data protection
Identifying and eliminating single points of failure in Tier-0 and mission-critical systems
Defining technical standards and reusable architecture blueprints covering: DR, PiTR, backup/restore, database resiliency, messaging (Kafka, MQ, Solace)

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years in enterprise, infrastructure, or solution architecture
Proven experience designing resilient hybrid architectures at large enterprise scale
Experience supporting architecture governance frameworks and ARB processes
Financial services or highly regulated industry experience preferred
Data center infrastructure and storage/compute resiliency patterns
Server virtualization platforms (VMware / private cloud)
Network resiliency and redundancy architectures
Public cloud platforms — AWS, Azure, GCP
Hybrid and multi-region cloud architectures
Cloud DR strategies and automated failover patterns
Disaster Recovery architecture and backup/restore platforms
Database recovery, replication, and PiTR implementations
Messaging resiliency — Kafka, MQ, Solace
Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and standards development
Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or equivalent)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architectureresiliency architecturedisaster recovery (DR)infrastructure architecturehybrid architecturedata protectionbackup/restoredatabase resiliencymessaging resiliencyconfiguration management

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationgovernancerisk managementcommunicationstrategic planningproblem-solvingtechnical authorityanalytical thinkingstakeholder engagement

Certifications

TOGAF