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.

The Master Data Management team within Enterprise Data & Analytics is looking for an MDM Business Architect.  The Master Data Management team is accountable for all data mastered, aggregated, and delivered regarding clients and key relationships.  This may include custodian feeds , external vendor data/reporting feeds, and benchmark data.  The Business Architect will work cross functionally across the organization to solve complex problems and improve data quality in MDM. Will support the MDM to ensure data is defined, classified, managed, and protected in accordance with Northern Trust Policies and Standards as well as external expectations. Primary focus of the business architect is to bridge the gap between business needs and technical implementation, ensuring data quality, governance, and accessibility across the organization.

Major Duties:

• Data Governance Strategy Execution: Assist in the development and execution of master data and data governance strategies in line with organizational goals and data architecture. This includes providing feedback on data standards, policies, and procedures.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to define and implement MDM strategies.
• Ensures that MDM Solution integrate seamlessly with existing business processes and systems and collaborate with existing programs to identify improvement to both data and business processes.
• Serve as a Product Owner for one of the MDM Data Products and facilitate enhanced collaboration with both business and technology stakeholders for the delivery of the product
• Metrics and Reporting: Define metrics and KPIs for the data product and contribute to developing metrics and reports to measure the success of master data initiatives and support in providing updates to senior management.
• Data Training: Leverage knowledge in data management to contribute to team training and development, ensuring up-to-date practices in data governance.  Leverage specific knowledge on master data to ensure data consumers are knowledgeable on data usage.
• Tools and Technology Management: Engage in the operation and management of data governance tools and technologies  keeping updated with new capabilities and utilizing.
• Support: Collaborate with teams across the various divisions to ensure comprehensive integration of master data management practices across the organization.
• Lead MDM initiatives and oversee implementation of releases, including timelines, budgets, resources. Coordinate with project managers to ensure deliverables sign with business expectations

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong understanding of business processes and master data domains (ex: party, account, product etc.)
• Strong experience in MDM platforms
• Knowledge in implementing data quality and data governance principles on master data
• Capable of engaging senior leadership with business, operations, and technology
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Possess proven facilitation and conflict resolution skills
• Possess exceptional analytical, conceptual and problem-solving abilities
• Capable of driving enterprise-wide initiatives to improve data integrity and compliance
• Capable of addressing data issues proactively

Experience:

• A College or University degree and/or equivalent data governance work experience is required.
• 5+ years’ experience in Business Architecture, Data Governance or Data Management.

Salary Range:

$95,600 - 162,400 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

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.