Enterprise Architect Principal

Posted 15 Days Ago
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Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid
146K-272K Annually
Expert/Leader
Fintech • Insurance • Financial Services
Start-Up Vibes with The Stability of a Fortune 100 Company.
The Role
The Enterprise Architect Principal will lead the technology strategy for Northwestern Mutual's Cloud platform, collaborating with senior leaders and engineering teams to create strategic roadmaps. Responsibilities include mentoring teams, integrating business priorities with enterprise technology strategy, and ensuring alignment with long-term priorities, while fostering a quality-obsessed culture.
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At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Northwestern Mutual (NM) is seeking an Enterprise Architect Principal to join our growing Cloud Platform team. The Cloud Platform team harnesses the power of the public cloud to empower our organization, enabling teams to develop digital solutions for both our clients and internal customers.
Our platforms and experiences drive business acceleration through the valuable abstraction of consistent patterns, robust automation, and a steadfast commitment to delivering value. We prioritize collaboration, scalability, compliance, and user focus, ensuring that our cloud solutions meet the evolving needs of our organization and enhance the end-user experience.
Summary
As a Principal Architect in the Cloud and DevOps organization, you are a recognized expert in multiple technology domains and represent the senior technical leadership within the organization. You will drive the direction of the technology strategy for our Cloud platform, assisting CDO leaders and other senior technical leaders in creating strategic roadmaps and setting priorities to help our engineering partners execute our multi-year strategy.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Set the strategy on teams' service offerings in collaboration with technical products and engineering that support NM's business strategies and outcomes, aligning with technology target state architecture while keeping in lockstep with cloud service providers (CSP) product and feature releases.


  • Teach, mentor, grow, and advise other domain experts, and individual contributors, across several teams in our organization.


  • Lead complex programs that span departments and divisions and act as a single point of accountability for execution and delivery by working backward from the desired outcome.


  • Ability to collaborate and provide leadership in a larger group of technical/engineering leads, Directors, and VPs and be accountable for owning the planning/program to drive efforts towards defined outcomes that align with strategic business goals.


  • A recognized thought leader in their organization in current and legacy technologies like Application Platforms (e.g., Cloud platform vs. Legacy Platform models), CI/CD tooling and practices, Integration patterns, or Master Data Management.


  • Ensures key architectural patterns, engineering practices, and standards are used and drive them across the organization in partnership with EA and ESD. Participates in EA's Federated Architecture roundtable.


  • Ensures business department projects align with the department's long-term priorities (connect projects to strategy)


  • Applies broader organization, process, and technology opportunities to a business department with an "innovation mindset."


  • Assumes a lead role in Identifying cross-departmental synergies and dependencies (including technical) and champion strategies (business and technical).


  • Integrates business priorities into enterprise technology strategy.


  • Partners with teams to identify functional gaps/opportunities and assumes the lead role in developing roadmaps for addressing functional gaps.


  • Continuously reinforce a quality-obsessed culture; re-imagine and establish metrics and processes to elevate the quality continually. Maintaining and continuing to foster a team culture of "you build it, you own it."


  • Take the initiative, work independently, and deliver results-extreme attention to detail and ability to self-audit work.


  • Teach, mentor, and advise other domain experts as well as junior engineers.


  • Lead complex programs and act as a single point of accountability.


Experience and Skills:

  • Bachelors or Master Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred. Advance degrees or certifications are a plus.


  • Over 10 years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, or Cloud.


  • Strong relationships with multiple business and technology stakeholders.


  • Ability to successfully communicate to technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and all levels of detail.


  • Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture.


  • Ability to influence teams, technology, or business leaders on impactful issues and decisions.


  • Track record of successfully driving impactful improvements to large, complex technology ecosystems over an extended period


  • Extensive experience with public cloud - AWS or Azure


  • Certification(s) preferred in cloud space (AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, etc.)


  • Certification(s) preferred in security space (AWS Certified Security - Specialty, CCSP, CISSP, etc.)


Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$146,440.00
Pay Range - End:
$271,960.00
Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please c lick here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

  • Flexible work schedules
  • Concierge service
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Employee resource groups

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HQ: Milwaukee, WI
8,400 Employees
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Year Founded: 1857

What We Do

You’ll Like It Here

At Northwestern Mutual, we believe that our lives and our work matter. And that doing what’s right is good for everyone. We follow through by designing tech that improves the community and cultivating creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere. These guiding principles have allowed our company to grow for more than 160 years.

Here, you’ll be with a team who emphasizes integrity and prioritizes security to design experiences that better everyone. You’ll work in cross functional teams to create optimal solutions that are rooted in innovative strategy and thoughtful execution. And you’re provided development tools and opportunities to become a leader all with the support of a collaborative team. You’ll be surrounded in a culture that values innovation and works to always evolve to stay ahead of trends and client needs.

We are intentional in seeking out team members who will challenge us. Our employees choose us for the career opportunities, commitment to philanthropy and desire to have a meaningful impact in the lives of our clients. You have career passions and goals. We have ambition and opportunity for you to grow your future in tech. Discover today: https://careers.northwesternmutual.com/

Why Work With Us

We invest in our people. We know careers are about choices, so we provide intentional opportunity. Here you can build creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere and revolutionize traditional processes. As a mutual company, our focus is our people — whether professional development or investments in the community. 

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