Senior Information Architect

About Northern Trust As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions. Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure:
Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide. With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The Senior Information Architect sits within Northern Trust’s Information Architecture team, shaping the firm’s enterprise data strategy, data modelling standards, and AI‑enabled capabilities.

The role will provide design authority and governance across conceptual, logical, and physical data models, operating across the firm’s cloud data platforms and contributing to AI‑driven data products.

Data Modelling & Architecture Lead and contribute with conceptual, logical, and physical data model design aligned to the firm's data mesh and medallion architectures

Govern and maintain the enterprise data model library in SqlDBM, enforcing naming conventions, domain standards, and versioning

Define and steward canonical data entities and lineage across source, integration, and consumption layers

Help with the translation of business requirements into rigorous data structures in collaboration with engineering and domain teams

Guide teams on the design and effective use of semantic data models, including their application to agentic AI solutions

Semantic & Knowledge Modelling Integrate semantic layers with business glossaries, data catalogues, and lineage tooling

Design and maintain semantic models to support agentic-AI capabilities

Help develop ontologies, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies underpinning enterprise metadata and search

Define semantic modelling standards and patterns to ensure consistent meaning, interoperability, and AI readiness across data products

Guide and control the creation of data domains that align with the banks underlying capabilities

Data Engineering & Platforms Design data product schemas across Snowflake and Databricks, including Delta Lake structures and access patterns

Define and enforce architectural guardrails for data product design, including performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency

Set design standards and review transformation/pipelines for compliance

Embed data contract standards and data quality frameworks across pipeline outputs

Agentic AI & AI-Assisted Development Leverage Snowflake Cortex / Databricks Genie (or similar) to help engineering teams deliver natural language query and LLM-augmented data products

Utilize Git Hub Copilot (or similar) to accelerate modelling, documentation, and pipeline development

Design and define a set of agentic skills that can be provided to implementation teams

Contribute to the firm's AI Champion network, evaluating emerging capabilities and advising on adoption

Enterprise Architecture & Design Assurance Act as a design authority for data architecture across teams and data domains

Partner with enterprise, security, and risk architecture to ensure data solutions align with broader technology and regulatory standards

Provide early-stage architectural input to initiative discovery and solution design to reduce delivery risk Governance & Stakeholder Engagement Present architecture decisions to senior stakeholders, architecture review boards, and regulatory audiences

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