Sr Lead, Solutions Architect - Infrastructure, Cloud, Automation & AI Engineering

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Job Title :  Solutions Architect – Infrastructure, Cloud, Automation & AI Engineering

Reports To:  SQM Manager

Job Overview:

The Solutions Architect is a pivotal role responsible for leading the engineering strategies, product developers, and execution of automation solutions in Infrastructure Quality Engineering team. This includes overseeing a team of product developers, infra automation test engineers and AI developers on various hybrid enterprise infrastructure platforms (Azure, AWS, On-prem Data Centers). The role blends technical leadership with hands-on automation expertise to deliver product features and ensure infrastructure reliability, scalability, and performance across development, staging, and production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure quality engineering programs across enterprise infrastructure, cloud, and platform initiatives.

  
  

• Own automated infrastructure testing strategy, including planning, scripting, execution, monitoring, reporting, and closure.

  
  

• Assess change impact, define test coverage, and validate infrastructure deployments, rollbacks, and core system dependencies.

  
  

• Architect and integrate IaC validation using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.

  
  

• Drive quality efficiency through ServiceNow, ITIL practices, automation, standards, documentation, and process optimization.

  
  

• Partner with Engineering, Operations, DevOps, Security, application teams, and stakeholders to align automation with business goals.

  
  

• Responsible for defect resolutions resulting from architected capabilities and solutions.

  
  

• Define KPIs, report outcomes, and develop team capability through mentoring, training, and continuous improvement.

  
  

• Own and define end-to-end architecture for java based enterprise scalable platforms

  
  

• Drive cloud transformation strategy and execution.

  
  

• Design modular, scalable microservices architecture using Java, Spring Boot, and MS SQL

  
  

• Establish and enforce engineering standards, code/design reviews, and system reliability

  
  

• Enable AI-driven automation and intelligent platform capabilities

  
  

• Lead and mentor 20+ engineers across India and US teams

  
  

• Ensure integration with DevOps and enterprise tools (GitHub, Jenkins, ServiceNow)

  
  

• Drive execution throughput, platform scalability, and operational excellence

  
  

Required Technical Skills:

• Proficiency and Hands-on experience in scripting languages - Python, Bash Scripting, Java, Advanced PowerShell, or similar.

  
  

• Proven expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and relational databases (MS SQL)

  
  

• Experience in scalable platform engineering and microservices design

  
  

• Test lifecycle experience in delivering high quality infrastructure changes with minimal impacts to applications (test planning, test scenario build, test execution, defect/issue management and test health metrics and status reporting)

  
  

• Good understanding of Computer Systems Architecture and Data Center Services and Operations.

  
  

• Infrastructure Administration, Automation Concepts, Diagnostics and Troubleshooting.

  
  

• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or CloudFormation.

  
  

• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, etc.).

  
  

• Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) and log aggregation (ELK/EFK stacks).

  
  

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and associated infrastructure services.

  
  

• Solid grasp of networking, database, security, and compliance as they relate to automated infrastructure deployments.

  
  

• Certifications in cloud architecture or automation (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Terraform Associate) is preferred.

  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

  
  

• 12+ Years Experience in Infrastructure change testing life cycle/Software Testing Lifecycle

  
  

• Strategic thinking with strong architectural vision

  
  

• Proven people leadership and cross-region collaboration

  
  

• Strong ownership mindset and execution excellence

  
  

• Related Certifications in areas of Computer Infrastructure, Testing, and Project Management.

  
  

• Provide leadership, build and maintaining relationships with Stakeholders.

  
  

• Ability to organize and prioritize work and tasks under pressure.

  
  

• Strong troubleshooting mindset and inquisitive mind sets

  
  

• Ability to handle conflict effectively.

  
  

• Able to communicate with all levels of management and peers within the organization, written and verbal.

  
  

• Flexible with the ability to and work under pressure, work based on the infrastructure change schedule and weekends

  
  

• Proactive, strong-minded, quick thinker and assertive.

  
  

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

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