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About the Role

The Senior Information Architect at Northern Trust shapes the firm’s enterprise data strategy, data modelling standards, and AI-enabled capabilities. This role provides design authority and governance across data models, operating across cloud data platforms and contributing to AI-driven data products.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute with conceptual, logical, and physical data model design aligned to the firm's data mesh and medallion architectures.
• Govern and maintain the enterprise data model library in SqlDBM, enforcing naming conventions, domain standards, and versioning.
• Define and steward canonical data entities and lineage across source, integration, and consumption layers.
• Translate business requirements into rigorous data structures in collaboration with engineering and domain teams.
• Guide teams on the design and effective use of semantic data models, including their application to agentic AI solutions.
• Integrate semantic layers with business glossaries, data catalogues, and lineage tooling.
• Design and maintain semantic models to support agentic-AI capabilities.
• Develop ontologies, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies underpinning enterprise metadata and search.
• Define semantic modelling standards and patterns to ensure consistent meaning, interoperability, and AI readiness across data products.
• Guide and control the creation of data domains that align with the banks underlying capabilities.
• Design data product schemas across Snowflake and Databricks, including Delta Lake structures and access patterns.
• Define and enforce architectural guardrails for data product design, including performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Set design standards and review transformation/pipelines for compliance.
• Embed data contract standards and data quality frameworks across pipeline outputs.
• Leverage Snowflake Cortex / Databricks Genie (or similar) to help engineering teams deliver natural language query and LLM-augmented data products.
• Utilize GitHub Copilot (or similar) to accelerate modelling, documentation, and pipeline development.
• Design and define a set of agentic skills that can be provided to implementation teams.
• Contribute to the firm's AI Champion network, evaluating emerging capabilities and advising on adoption.
• Act as a design authority for data architecture across teams and data domains.
• Partner with enterprise, security, and risk architecture to ensure data solutions align with broader technology and regulatory standards.
• Provide early-stage architectural input to initiative discovery and solution design to reduce delivery risk.
• Present architecture decisions to senior stakeholders, architecture review boards, and regulatory audiences.
• Support regulatory compliance through robust lineage, metadata management, and data quality evidence.
• Mentor junior architects and engineers within the Information Architecture community of practice.

Requirements

• Proven experience in data architecture, data engineering, or information management.
• Proven enterprise data modelling experience at conceptual, logical, and physical levels.
• Hands-on SqlDBM experience (or equivalent modern toolset).
• Proven experience with dbt Labs.
• Good Python skills, API integration, automation.
• Practical Snowflake and Databricks experience including Cortex AI and Genie.
• Working knowledge of OWL, RDF, SPARQL and enterprise ontology design.
• Experience with at least one agentic AI framework.
• GitHub Copilot or equivalent AI coding assistant experience in a professional setting.
• Financial services background preferred; BCBS 239 awareness advantageous.
• Applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom at the time of application and for the duration of employment.
• Northern Trust is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

Skills

• Data Architecture
• Data Engineering
• Information Management
• Enterprise Data Modelling
• Conceptual Data Modelling
• Logical Data Modelling
• Physical Data Modelling
• SqlDBM
• dbt Labs
• Python
• API Integration
• Automation
• Snowflake
• Databricks
• Snowflake Cortex AI
• Databricks Genie
• OWL
• RDF
• SPARQL
• Enterprise Ontology Design
• Agentic AI Frameworks
• GitHub Copilot
• AI Coding Assistant
• Data Mesh
• Data Product Ownership
• Federated Governance
• Knowledge Graph Platforms
• Neo4j
• Neptune
• Thought Leadership
• Community Contributions

Location

• United Kingdom

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

Benefits

• Flexible and collaborative work culture
• Strong history of financial strength and stability
• Movement within the organization is encouraged
• Senior leaders are accessible
• Pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace
• Assisting the communities we serve
• Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history
• Reasonable Accommodation for individuals with health conditions and disabilities

About the Company

• Northern Trust is a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services.
• We guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.
• Founded in 1889, our efforts are aligned with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity.
• We have over 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners.
• We serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
• As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability.
• Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.
• Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture.
• Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.
• A global financial leader with more than 22,000 employees in 23 locations worldwide, Northern Trust empowers our employees to achieve more than just business goals.
• Our focus on work-life balance, career mobility and unique opportunities are just a few of the reasons we’ve been named one of the world’s most admired companies.

Equal Opportunity

• Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities.
• APAC/INDIA EEO STATEMENT It is the policy and practice of Northern Trust to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Northern Trust does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or age. All employment decisions will be made in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our obligations under the law and codes of practice. This includes human resources’ decisions relating to recruitment, terms and conditions of employment, transfers, promotions and access to learning and development.
• Canada EEO STATEMENT Northern Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Hiring and other employment decisions at Northern Trust are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, ancestry, national origin, ethnic origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, sexual orientation, record of offences, marital status, family status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, or local law, regulation, or ordinance.
• EMEA EEO STATEMENT It is the policy and practice of Northern Trust to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Northern Trust does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or age. All employment decisions will be made in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our obligations under the law and codes of practice. This includes human resources’ decisions relating to recruitment, terms and conditions of employment, transfers, promotions and access to learning and development.
• USA EEO STATEMENT It is the policy of The Northern Trust Company to afford equal opportunity in all phases of employment without regard to an individual's age, race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic tests and information, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected status.
• EEO Know Your Rights (U.S.)