Overview

About Northern Trust: Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution with a history of operation since 1889. We provide innovative financial services to leading individuals, families, and institutions, guided by service, expertise, and integrity. With over 130 years of financial experience and more than 22,000 partners, we serve sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

We are looking for a visionary Capability Business Architect to join our Global Payments & Liquidity team. This role translates strategic intent into executable business capabilities, ensuring our payment and liquidity operations are future-ready, resilient, and aligned with enterprise goals. As a Business Architect, you will bridge high-level business strategy and operational delivery, define and evolve business capabilities, design target operating models, and guide transformation initiatives that enhance our global financial infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Strategic Alignment & Capability Design
  • Partner with senior leaders to shape the strategic roadmap for global payments and liquidity.
  • Define and evolve business capabilities, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business goals.
  • Develop target operating models and business architecture blueprints that guide transformation and delivery.

• Architecture Development & Delivery Enablement
  • Translate strategic objectives into actionable business models, process flows, and capability maps.
  • Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure architectural designs are implemented effectively and sustainably.
  • Provide architectural oversight across programmes to ensure consistency, scalability, and compliance.

• Stakeholder Engagement & Facilitation
  • Engage with cross-functional teams including Finance, Treasury, Technology, Risk, and Compliance.
  • Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and governance forums to align stakeholders and drive consensus.

• Process & Performance Optimisation
  • Analyse current-state processes and systems to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
  • Support the development of KPIs and metrics to measure business architecture performance and value delivery.

• Risk & Regulatory Compliance
  • Ensure architectural designs adhere to global regulatory standards.
  • Identify and mitigate risks associated with payment and liquidity operations.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, or related field (Master's degree preferred).
• Extensive experience in business architecture within financial services, ideally in payments and liquidity.
• Strong understanding of payment ecosystems, liquidity platforms, and treasury operations.
• Experience with capability modelling, business process design, and transformation delivery.

Skills & Competencies

• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect vision to execution.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management.
• Comfortable navigating complex environments and driving change.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on delivering high-quality outcomes.

Why Join Us?

• Shape the future of global financial operations in a strategic role.
• Work in a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive environment.
• Access to professional development and career growth opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability support exploration of new ideas. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to the communities we serve. We invite you to 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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people. Apply today and discuss your flexible working requirements so we can achieve greater—together.