Information Architect

Northern Trust
Chicago
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 137,400 - 240,400Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Stakeholder communication","Governance","Mentorship","Design authority","Collaboration"]

Design and govern Northern Trust’s enterprise data architecture, including conceptual/logical/physical data models, canonical entities, and end-to-end lineage. Build semantic and knowledge models that support metadata, search, and agentic AI capabilities. Partner on data product schemas and platforms across Snowflake and Databricks (including Delta Lake), enforcing architectural guardrails, data contracts, and quality. Act as a design authority, present decisions to stakeholders, and mentor junior architects.

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Northern Trust
Northern Trust
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Information Architect

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Job Summary

Design and govern Northern Trust’s enterprise data architecture, including conceptual/logical/physical data models, canonical entities, and end-to-end lineage. Build semantic and knowledge models that support metadata, search, and agentic AI capabilities. Partner on data product schemas and platforms across Snowflake and Databricks (including Delta Lake), enforcing architectural guardrails, data contracts, and quality. Act as a design authority, present decisions to stakeholders, and mentor junior architects.
Location: Chicago
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and contribute to conceptual, logical, and physical data model design aligned to data mesh and medallion architectures.
  • •Govern and maintain the enterprise data model library in SqlDBM, enforcing naming conventions, domain standards, and versioning.
  • •Design semantic layers and knowledge models (ontologies, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies) to support enterprise metadata, search, and agentic AI capabilities.
  • •Create data product schemas across Snowflake and Databricks (Delta Lake structures), defining architectural guardrails and embedding data contracts and quality frameworks.
  • •Serve as design authority for data architecture, presenting decisions to stakeholders and mentoring junior architects within the community of practice.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 137,400 - 240,400
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:401kPensionHealth InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveParental LeaveLife InsuranceDisability

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience in data architecture, data engineering, or information management.
  • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • •Enterprise data modelling experience across conceptual, logical, and physical levels.
  • •Hands-on SqlDBM experience (or equivalent modern toolset) and proven experience with dbt Labs.
  • •Practical Snowflake and Databricks experience, including Cortex AI and Genie, with good Python skills and API integration.
Experience:Financial services
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Stakeholder communicationGovernanceMentorshipDesign authorityCollaboration
Tech Stack:SqlDBMSnowflakeDatabricksDelta LakeDbtDbt LabsPythonGitHub CopilotSnowflake CortexDatabricks GenieOWLRDFSPARQLOntologiesTaxonomiesControlled vocabulariesData meshData productData lineageAgentic AI

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Northern Trust
Global financial services firm providing wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking solutions to institutions, corporations, and affluent individuals, with a focus on custody, investment management, and technology-driven services.
Industry: Asset Management
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Chicago, United States
Founded: 1889
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