Hiring: Principal - Head of Compliance Architecture Company: Northern Trust Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 12:53:18 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : CI/CD, CPT, Change Management, Data Warehouse, Databricks, Enterprise Architecture, Event-Driven, Kubernetes, Microservices, Product Management, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, SaaS, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Vendor Management, Wealth Management About the job Experience: •Enterprise architecture leadership across multiple business domains and technology portfolios. •Financial services, banking, regulatory, risk, compliance, audit, or financial crimes technology environments. •Delivery and governance of SaaS, cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premise solutions. •Enterprise data architecture, data engineering, analytics, and integration platforms. •Vendor solution evaluation, architecture governance, and technology modernization initiatives. Required Skills: •Establishes and maintains the target-state architecture vision across the portfolio, ensuring technology solutions align with regulatory obligations, business strategy, enterprise architecture standards, and long-term technology objectives. •Develops portfolio-level architecture roadmaps and modernization strategies, identifying opportunities for capability expansion, platform rationalization, cloud adoption, technical debt reduction, cost optimization, and technology transformation. •Defines and governs enterprise architecture principles, engineering standards, design patterns, and technology reference architectures across SaaS, cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premise environments. •Leads evaluation and selection of strategic technology platforms and vendor solutions, performing architecture due diligence and providing recommendations regarding scalability, resiliency, security, integration complexity, supportability, and total cost of ownership. •Establishes architecture standards and governance processes for commercial, SaaS, and internally developed solutions, ensuring consistency across application, integration, data, infrastructure, and security domains. •Provides strategic oversight of enterprise data architecture, including data acquisition, transformation, governance, lineage, quality, analytics, reporting, and AI enablement capabilities leveraging technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, cloud data platforms, real-time streaming technologies, and enterprise data ecosystems. •Establishes architecture standards supporting modern cloud and distributed systems including API-led architectures, event-driven integration, microservices, container platforms, cloud-native services, and platform engineering practices. •Provides architectural leadership and governance for critical compliance technology platforms, including AML and transaction monitoring solutions, Actimize, sanctions screening platforms, fraud management solutions, ServiceNow IRM, regulatory change platforms, surveillance technologies, and audit automation capabilities. Qualifications: •Designs and governs enterprise integration patterns across critical source systems, including payment systems, trade processing platforms, client onboarding systems, sanctions screening platforms, master data management solutions, regulatory reporting systems, and operational platforms. •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, and at least fifteen or more years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise architecture, software engineering, data architecture, or technology leadership. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!