Technology Resiliency Architect

Northern Trust•Chicago, IL

2d•$137,400 - $233,600•Hybrid

About The Position

Technology Resiliency Architect is a senior hands-on architect responsible for embedding resiliency by design across the enterprise technology landscape. The role leads development, governance, and implementation of enterprise resiliency architecture standards across on-premises infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS platforms. Serving as a technical authority in Architecture Review Boards (ARB), this position partners with Business Unit architects and engineering teams to translate enterprise resiliency strategy into practical implementation guidance through Resiliency Implementation Guidelines (RIGs).

Requirements

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)
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

Nice To Haves

Enterprise resiliency transformation initiatives
SRE and reliability engineering frameworks
Observability and monitoring platforms
Cyber recovery and isolated recovery architectures

Responsibilities

Lead resiliency reviews identifying architectural weaknesses and risks
Assess recovery capabilities against defined RTO and RPO targets
Develop remediation strategies and resiliency uplift roadmaps
Promote IaC (Terraform, Ansible), DR automation, and recovery orchestration
Drive configuration/drift management and automated recovery testing
Ensure architecture standards support operational resilience requirements
Provide architectural evidence for audit and regulatory reviews
Collaborate with governance and risk teams to strengthen resiliency controls
Design resilient architectures across on-prem, private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS
Develop patterns for high availability, disaster recovery (DR), and data protection
Identify and eliminate single points of failure in Tier-0 and mission-critical systems
Define technical standards and reusable architecture blueprints covering: DR, PiTR, backup/restore, database resiliency, messaging (Kafka, MQ, Solace), Hybrid cloud recovery, storage replication, application failover patterns
Core ARB member — review designs for resiliency compliance and risk
Identify vulnerabilities, recommend remediation, enforce enterprise patterns
Act as technical gatekeeper for resiliency across all major initiatives
Provide hands-on architecture support for critical applications and platforms
Lead architecture design workshops with BU technology teams
Advise on DR, PiTR, and failover strategies for resilient hybrid architectures

Benefits

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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