About Northern TrustAs 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.
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Compliance Architect serves as the senior architecture authority across Financial Crimes, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Change portfolios, along with expanding involvement with Legal / Audit technology portfolios.
This role is accountable for establishing target-state architecture, governing technology strategy, accelerating platform modernization, and ensuring regulatory technology solutions operate as an integrated ecosystem.The architect provides strategic leadership across SaaS, cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premise platforms; enterprise data environments; vendor solutions; engineering organizations; and compliance capabilities, ensuring technology investments deliver scalable, resilient, secure, and compliant business outcomes.Major Duties
* Serves as the lead architecture authority for Financial Crimes, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Change portfolios, providing technical leadership across Anti-Money Laundering (AML), KYC, Sanctions Screening, Fraud Prevention, Ethics & Conduct, Trade Surveillance, Electronic Communications Surveillance, Regulatory Change Management, Compliance Risk Assessment, Compliance Testing, Compliance Monitoring capabilities.
* Establishes and maintains the target-state architecture vision across the portfolio, ensuring technology solutions align with regulatory obligations, business strategy, enterprise architecture standards, and long-term technology objectives.
* Develops portfolio-level architecture roadmaps and modernization strategies, identifying opportunities for capability expansion, platform rationalization, cloud adoption, technical debt reduction, cost optimization, and technology transformation.
* Defines and governs enterprise architecture principles, engineering standards, design patterns, and technology reference architectures across SaaS, cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
* Leads evaluation and selection of strategic technology platforms and vendor solutions, performing architecture due diligence and providing recommendations regarding scalability, resiliency, security, integration complexity, supportability, and total cost of ownership.
* Establishes architecture standards and governance processes for commercial, SaaS, and internally developed solutions, ensuring consistency across application, integration, data, infrastructure, and security domains.
* Designs and governs enterprise integration patterns across critical source systems, including
Principal - Head of Compliance Architecture in Kennington employer: Northern Trust
Northern Trust is an exceptional employer, offering a flexible and collaborative work culture that prioritises employee growth and inclusivity. With over 135 years of financial expertise, employees are encouraged to develop their careers while contributing to meaningful philanthropic efforts in the community. The company's commitment to service, integrity, and expertise ensures that partners thrive in a supportive environment, making it an ideal place for those seeking a rewarding career in securities finance.
