Information Architect, Enterprise Risk Data & Analytics

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.

Major Duties:

-  An Information architect who can play a business application owner role to prioritize work for Technology team in building a data platform (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake) to support Risk data, reporting and analytics use cases.

-  Understand Data Engineering, Information architecture and Data Modeling both from functional (Banking Domain) & technical aspects and support the data development needs.

-  Create Detailed Business Requirement documents (BRD), High level design (HLD) documents, process flows, project planning and implementation artifacts that support regulatory and audit requirements using tools like confluence, Miro and Office 365.

-  Plan and setup meetings with key stakeholders (Business, Risk, Compliance, IT and Analytics), drive the meetings through structured agenda and document the outcomes.

-  Understand and analyze multiple data sources and systems related to Risk within the organization

-  Query and present necessary data using SQL, Python and serve business stakeholders’ ad-hoc data requirements.

-  Develop dashboards and create ad-hoc reporting as needed using self-service tools like Power BI

-  Contribute to the development and delivery of solutions that:  leverage and extend existing Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence and analytics infrastructure; take data governance and enterprise solutions into consideration; are scalable, repeatable and effective; and follow agreed upon governance and technology policies

-  Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner

-  Identify opportunities to enhance processes regarding data flow and data quality to improve accuracy, viability and value

-  Participate in special projects as needed and perform other duties as assigned

- Manage projects, mentor junior developers across regions and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Knowledge :

- Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.

- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills are required.

- Technical skills / systems knowledge (e.g. SQL, Python, Power BI)

Experience :

-  10+ years of experience as a Data & Technology professional specializing in Data Engineering, Data Modelling, Architecture and Data Visualization specializing in Banking & Financial Services.

-  Expertise, strong working knowledge & conceptual understanding of data modelling, data warehousing, data lake and data mesh is a must.

-  Design and build data pipelines, ETL processes, ensuring a smooth data flow from multiple sources into ADLS.

-  Expertise in writing and optimizing complex SQL, python code in various tools.

-  Expertise in creating logical and physical data models to support analytics and business intelligence.

-  Intermediate working knowledge of any data visualization tool (such as Power BI) is preferred

- Experience in Project Management, Product Management through agile methodology is a must.

Salary Range:

$99,600 - 169,200 USD

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,