Enterprise Integration Architect

Job Description

Enterprise Integration Architect Enterprise Architectures mission is to design and operate the Capabilities and Platforms that will support Northern Trusts clients for the next decade. Our purpose is to continuously strengthen business-IT alignment around business strategic objectives and improve the return on value from technology. We do this by driving best in class well architecture disciplines and the right technology, at the right time, for the right economics. This Enterprise Integration Architect role will be focused on setting standards and supporting application teams around Integration Architecture. This includes defining processes and practices for API management, Events and Messaging as well as data pipelines and ETL. The role will define enterprise patterns to give design direction to teams and provide guidance around the platforms to deliver the capabilities. Key Responsibilities Define standards, practices and patterns for mature enterprise API lifecycle management, Events, Messaging and ETL Enable the developer experience to be able to leverage the patterns for successful delivery Support enterprise deployment of integration platforms Define enterprise patterns and cookbooks to provide guidance to teams Provide platform guidance for different use cases Consult with teams to improve their delivery maturity for cloud Continuously improve enterprise architecture processes through a product mindset Required Key Skills Broad solution architecture experience Application architectures (e.g. n-tier) and testing Integration architectures (APIs, Event Streaming, Message Queues and ETL) Platform architecture Security architecture - identity and access management, data loss prevention, key management Diagramming (at least one of: Miro, Draw.io, Visio). Knows when to use which kind of diagram to use for each audience: logical architecture, physical architecture, sequence diagram, decision tree. Consulting mindset demonstrating problem solving with a customer focus, with a strong attention to detail Proven skills in consulting and supporting application teams with strong communication skills Comfortable working with chief architects and CIO / CTO level and working in collaborative environment Able to articulate fundamental concepts such how applications deploy APIs and communicate through events and messages, and when each communication type is most appropriate. Understands the implications of sending events versus messages and what the intent is for the subscriber. Understands implications of security on integration, such as secondary encryption, key rotation, certificate management, SSO, etc. Understands what it means to publish APIs and events across an enterprise and is able to establish a strategy for doing so. Knows how to establish non-functional requirements for an integration platform, such as resiliency, RTO, RPO, throughput, latency, etc. Agile application delivery experience Scrum or other agile methods to deliver against product backlog Strong DevOps pipeline experience (GitHub preferred) Preferred Skills Cloud experience (Azure preferred) Integration platforms - Azure API Management, Kafka, Solace Platform as a Service - Containers, Kubernetes Security - Firewalls, Networks, Authentication, Authorization Data platforms - data pipelines, data fabric, database platforms Infrastructure as Code - Terraform Cloud Networking Experience with Azure DevOps / Boards DevOps and CI/CD skills - GitHub pipelines Experience At least 10 years in software delivery and architecture Minimum of bachelors degree in computer science or related discipline