Senior Principal, Security Solutions Architect

Northern Trust is continually adapting to increasing information security threats which requires scalable, sustainable infrastructure designed around sound security principles.

This position is an expert responsible for infrastructure architecture and engineering initiatives with an explicit focus on alignment with information security and risk reduction in the technology portfolio.

The ideal candidate would have a strong IT cross-functional background and experience in securing complex technical solutions. This role reports to the Director of Infrastructure Architecture and Strategy and is part of the Global Technology Infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Drive infrastructure information security architecture by aligning processes, IT software and hardware, local and wide area networks, people, operations, and projects with the organization's overall security strategy

• Interprets and/or approves security requirements relative to the capabilities of new information technologies

• Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues

• Interacts closely with the Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, and Information Security to evaluate options and make decisions on go forward security architectures, models and principles

• Interfaces frequently with information security industry groups to stay abreast of emerging security trends

• Ensure information security is core to public, private and hybrid cloud architecture and deployment

• Ensure platform delivery aligns with information security roadmap

• Collaborates with vendors to achieve the platforms outcomes

Required:

Experience

• Requires a college or university degree and/or relevant proven work experience, organizational, leadership, and management skills to provide knowledge to the functional business
• Extensive experience, that has been developed over 15+ years, in change / design initiatives, covering such areas as operations, IT and product development; with a track record of accomplishment in large, complex projects and change initiatives
• Experience in the area of Information Security

Knowledge/Skills:

• Multi-disciplinary IT practitioner with specialization information security, and network and systems administration and automation
• Skills in translating broad strategic intent into actionable plans and directions to enable delivery
• Authoritative knowledge of information security technology architecture, networking, application and automation
  • infrastructure architecture
  • information security
  • cloud architectures - public, private and hybrid
  • application architecture
• Excellent leadership, organizational skills and management skills, are required to meet goals
• Ability to work in matrix organization to drive change
• Person must have excellent negotiation and conflict management skills and have experience working with senior stakeholders
• Excellent writing, problem solving, presentation and storytelling skills

Preferred:

• Industry certification such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC