Senior Lead Architecture Solutions

About the role

The Senior Lead Architecture Solutions role at Northern Trust drives technology decision‑making, vendor relationship management and the evaluation of emerging technologies across the organisation. You will act as a functional expert, bridging business needs with technical solutions to improve efficiency and productivity.

Key responsibilities

• Understand and influence technology choice decisions, including capacity, response time, data interfacing and client‑server communication.
• Build and maintain new and ongoing vendor relationships.
• Evaluate and select existing and emerging technologies that best fit business and project requirements.
• Promote expertise sharing through consulting, presentations and documentation.
• Lead complex, cross‑disciplinary initiatives and provide strategic guidance within functional areas.

Required profile

• Deep knowledge of application or infrastructure systems architecture with experience across multiple technologies.
• Excellent consultative and communication skills, able to work with client, partner and IT management.
• Strong project management and analytical abilities.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Legal right to work in the United Kingdom for the duration of employment.

Required skills

• Assembler language proficiency.
• Experience with several high‑level programming languages.