Director, Security Architecture
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.
Role Summary
The Director, Security Architecture is a senior technical leader and enterprise security architecture decision authority responsible for guiding and making security architecture decisions across complex, high-risk, and cross-domain technology initiatives.
This role provides authoritative security direction when established standards, reference architectures, or patterns do not provide a clear answer. The Director evaluates technology risk and design trade-offs, resolves complex architecture issues, and ensures decisions appropriately balance security, business objectives, regulatory expectations, and enterprise technology strategy.
The Director may lead a small team of Security Architects responsible for lower-complexity architecture assessments exception management, established-pattern reviews and reference architecture libraries, and other delegated architecture activities, while maintaining direct responsibility for significant, novel, or cross-domain architecture decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a delegated security architecture decision authority for complex, material, or cross-domain technology initiatives.
- Make and document clear, defensible architecture decisions, including required controls, design changes, conditions, or escalation when risk exceeds delegated authority.
- Lead resolution of complex security architecture issues spanning identity and access management, cloud, infrastructure, application security, data security, network security, privileged access, AI, and emerging technology.
- Provide senior technical leadership to Security Authority and Architecture Review Board processes, driving clear and timely decisions without adding unnecessary governance overhe...
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