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Job Summary:
Northern Trust is a global leader in innovative wealth management and banking services, seeking a Technology Cyber Resiliency Architect. This role is responsible for leading the design and validation of enterprise cyber resilience capabilities across the firm's technology estate, ensuring critical services can recover from cyber events while meeting regulatory expectations.
Responsibilities:
• Define and lead enterprise cyber resilience architecture patterns across on-prem, private cloud, public cloud (AWS, Azure), and critical SaaS providers
• Design capabilities including:
• Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE) / Clean Room Recovery
• Cyber vault and immutable backup architectures
• Point-in-Time Recovery (PiTR) strategies
• Identity and access recovery mechanisms
• Ensure resilience is embedded into Tier-0 architecture and design standards
• Develop severe-but-plausible cyber-attack scenarios aligned to real-world threats: ransomware, identity compromise, data corruption, cloud control plane compromise, and supply chain attacks
• Translate scenarios 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
• Ensure playbooks are actionable, tested, and executable under crisis conditions
• Design and 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
• Partner with engineering teams to implement architectural improvements, enhance recovery automation, and strengthen identity and infrastructure resilience
• Track and report resilience maturity improvements
• Ensure Tier-0 and critical business services have defined recovery strategies, validated playbooks, and mapped dependencies
• Assess and validate cyber recovery capabilities of critical third-party vendors and SaaS providers; integrate into enterprise recovery strategies
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) to enforce cyber resilience standards
• Contribute to Resiliency Implementation Guidelines (RIGs) and enterprise patterns
• Ensure new solutions meet enterprise cyber recovery requirements
Qualifications:
Required:
• 12+ years across infrastructure architecture, cloud engineering, cyber security engineering, and resiliency / disaster recovery engineering
• Large-scale enterprise or financial services environments
• Proven track record designing cyber recovery or disaster recovery architectures
• Data center architecture: compute, storage, virtualization
• Backup and recovery platforms
• AWS and/or Azure — hybrid cloud architectures
• Cyber incident response
• Identity and access management
• Threat and attack vectors
• Backup / restore, immutable storage, point-in-time recovery
• DR architectures, cyber vault / clean room recovery
• Dependency mapping and failure analysis
• Ability to design enterprise-scale recovery architectures
• Strong systems thinking and dependency mapping
• Experience developing technical playbooks and recovery procedures
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives
Preferred:
• 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
Company:
Northern Trust is a global leader in delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking. Founded in 1889, the company is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.