Technology Cyber Resiliency Architect

About Northern Trust

Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services. Founded in 1889, the company adheres to three guiding principles: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. These principles guide the firm's business conduct, which it strives to instill in its partners and provide to its clients and the communities it serves worldwide.

Role Overview

The Sr Principal Solutions Consultant – Cyber Resiliency plays a pivotal role at the intersection of Cyber Security, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering, and Resiliency Engineering. This role is responsible for leading the design, engineering, and validation of enterprise cyber resilience capabilities across the firm's global technology estate.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead enterprise cyber resilience architecture patterns across on-prem, private cloud, public cloud (AWS, Azure), and critical SaaS providers.

• Develop isolated recovery environments (IRE) / clean room recovery, cyber vault and immutable backup architectures, and point-in-time recovery (PiTR) strategies.

• Ensure resilience is embedded into Tier-0 architecture and design standards.

• Develop severe-but-plausible cyber-attack scenarios aligned to real-world threats and translate them into end-to-end recovery execution models across infrastructure, applications, and data layers.

• Lead development of cyber recovery playbooks orchestrating response across Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Application teams, Business Continuity, and Global Command Center.

• Define recovery sequencing, escalation paths, clean data validation, and operational command structures.

• Facilitate enterprise cyber recovery tabletop exercises and simulations, validate end-to-end recovery execution, cross-team coordination, RTO achievement, and data integrity.

• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.

• Identify systemic gaps and failure points across cyber recovery capabilities, manage a cyber resilience gap remediation backlog, and partner with engineering teams to implement architectural improvements.

• Ensure Tier-0 and critical business services have defined recovery strategies, validated playbooks, and mapped dependencies, and assess and validate cyber recovery capabilities of critical third-party vendors and SaaS providers.

• Participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) to enforce cyber resilience standards, contribute to Resiliency Implementation Guidelines (RIGs) and enterprise patterns, and ensure new solutions meet enterprise cyber recovery requirements.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience across infrastructure architecture, cloud engineering, cyber security engineering, and resiliency/disaster recovery engineering.

• Proven track record designing cyber recovery or disaster recovery architectures in large-scale enterprise or financial services environments.

• Experience in data center architecture, compute, storage, virtualization, backup and recovery platforms, AWS and Azure hybrid cloud architectures, security, identity and access management, threat and attack vectors, data protection and resilience, backup/restore, immutable storage, point-in-time recovery, DR architectures, cyber vault/clean room recovery, and dependency mapping and failure analysis.

• Strong systems thinking and dependency mapping skills.

• Experience developing technical playbooks and recovery procedures.

• Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• GSIB or highly regulated financial institution experience.

• Experience designing Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE).

• Experience running enterprise cyber tabletop exercises.

• Familiarity with operational resilience regulatory frameworks.

Experience

• Experience in cyber resilience architecture.

• Experience in scenario engineering and testing.

• Experience in enterprise recovery orchestration.

• Experience in cross-domain technical leadership.

• Experience in crisis response coordination.

• Experience in continuous improvement and gap remediation.

• Experience in Tier-0 and third-party alignment.

• Experience in architecture governance and RIG alignment.

Salary Range

$164,600 - 288,000 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, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.