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.

Overview

The SRE Community of Practice (CoP) Senior Implementation Lead is responsible for driving the adoption, standardization, and maturity of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices across the organization. This role serves as a key enabler in scaling SRE principles, fostering collaboration, and ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide reliability, observability, and automation goals.

Key Responsibilities

SRE Practice Implementation & Governance

• Lead the strategic implementation of SRE frameworks, aligning with global best practices and business objectives.
• Develop and enforce SRE standards, processes, and governance models to drive operational resilience.
• Define and enable SREs to track key reliability metrics (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets) across critical applications and infrastructure.

Community Building & Knowledge Sharing

• Establish and nurture a strong SRE Community of Practice, promoting knowledge exchange and shared learning.
• Organize technical forums, workshops, and training programs to uplift SRE capabilities across engineering teams.
• Act as a mentor and advisor to SRE teams, enabling continuous improvement in site reliability practices.

Automation & Tooling Enablement

• Drive the adoption of automation-first approaches for incident response, capacity planning, and release engineering.
• Partner with platform engineering teams to standardize observability, chaos engineering, and self-healing mechanisms.
• Identify and implement industry-leading SRE tools and technologies to enhance system resilience.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Engagement

• Work closely with engineering, operations, risk, and compliance teams to embed SRE principles into SDLC and ITSM processes.
• Serve as a bridge between leadership and technical teams, translating strategic objectives into actionable SRE initiatives.
• Advocate for a culture of reliability, blameless postmortems, and continuous learning across the enterprise.
• Empower a distributed community of practitioners to work across organizational partitions and contribute to enabler services and systems

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Evaluate emerging trends in SRE, DevOps, and AI-driven reliability engineering to drive innovation.
• Establish a feedback loop to measure the impact of SRE initiatives and continuously refine strategies.
• Promote resilience engineering techniques to proactively identify and mitigate failure points.

Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or software reliability engineering roles.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, cloud-native architectures, modern hybrid architectures, and observability practices.
• Hands-on experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk, Azure Monitor), and incident management frameworks.
• Proven ability to build and lead communities of practice within large-scale enterprises.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Salary Range:

$164,600 - 288,000 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.

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.

Title: Data Analytics Engineer

Key skills required for the role:

• Advanced data analytics skills using ML, AI and GenAI.
• Expertise in designing data driven AI solution for complex business needs.
• Investment Management or Asset Management experience recommended.
• Expert level understanding of relational database concepts, dimensional database concepts and database architecture and design, ontology and taxonomy design.
• Intellectual curiosity, inclination for independent and self-directed work, and attention to detail.
• Professional experience driving change, transformation, and process improvement initiatives.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders and executive leadership to achieve business outcomes
• Understanding of data security, cyber-security and PII management
• Deep understanding of relational and NoSQL data stores, methods and approaches.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage relationships with all stakeholders, with a focus on setting expectations and maintaining ongoing client satisfaction through effective project management and a strong commitment to customer service.
• Evangelize data strategist working through design, documentation, review and cross team negotiations to support strategic business and technology goals.
• Displays thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology
• Leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
• Provides architecture direction for engineers in support of a technical pattern.
• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt. Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture.
• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
• Participates in defining target state technology architecture and roadmaps. Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state.
• Contribute to a fast-paced Agile team and participate in multiple aspects of planning, documentation, execution, testing and launch of projects
• Interface with global teams to collaborative work on business deliveries.
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models for large scale technology platforms.

Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline is required.
• Seasoned expert with technical and business knowledge and functional expertise that has been developed over several years.
• Experience in systems analysis and application program development.
• Experience with project feasibility, definition requirements, design and/or project leadership.
• Experience with various technical programming languages, and phase report studies is required.

Salary Range:

$114,500 - 194,700 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.

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.

Role Overview

The Specialist, Business Management role sits within the Investment Operations / COO organization and operates at the crossroads of Fee Billing execution, revenue oversight platform development, and business analysis. This role is critical to ensuring the accuracy, transparency, scalability, and future-state evolution of the firm’s fee billing and revenue oversight capabilities.

The Specialist will partner closely with the Fee Billing Team, OCIO and Investment Operations stakeholders, Technology, and Data teams to support the end-to-end invoicing lifecycle while also leading business analysis and requirements definition for enhancements to the Revenue Oversight Platform. The role blends hands-on operational support with analytical rigor, project governance, and strong technical fluency in SQL and Snowflake.

Key Responsibilities

Fee Billing & Revenue Operations Support

• Support the end-to-end invoicing lifecycle, including development, compilation, review, validation, and distribution of client invoices across multiple asset classes and product structures.
• Act as a subject matter expert on fee billing processes, fee schedules, and underlying data flows, proactively identifying risks, breaks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Partner with the Fee Billing Team to investigate and resolve complex billing exceptions, discrepancies, and client inquiries.
• Embed strong risk mitigation, controls, and documentation into all billing and revenue-related processes.

Revenue Oversight Platform Development

• Support the design, build, and ongoing enhancement of the Revenue Oversight Platform, serving as a key liaison between business users and technology teams.
• Perform gap analysis on existing tools, processes, and data to identify functional and technical enhancements.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable artifacts (business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria).
• Participate in testing, UAT, release validation, and post-implementation reviews to ensure platform changes meet business and control expectations.
• Contribute to quarterly product and enhancement roadmaps in partnership with Technology, Data, and Business stakeholders.

Business Analysis & Process Improvement

• Conduct current-state and future-state process mapping across fee billing, revenue calculation, reconciliation, and reporting workflows.
• Lead root-cause analysis on operational issues, data inconsistencies, and process inefficiencies.
• Identify automation and scalability opportunities aligned with digital transformation initiatives.
• Partner with Global Investment Operations, Client Service, Institutional, and Wealth stakeholders to ensure solutions optimize the client and partner experience.

Project Management & Stakeholder Engagement

• Support project governance activities, including documentation of decisions, risks, issues, dependencies, and status reporting.
• Manage and prioritize work intake through backlog management tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira, or equivalent).
• Facilitate working sessions and cross-functional forums to gather requirements, align on priorities, and drive consensus.
• Communicate effectively with operational leaders and senior stakeholders, tailoring messaging to technical and non-technical audiences.

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Strong proficiency in SQL, including writing complex queries to analyze large, structured datasets.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms, including querying, validating, and understanding data models.
• Ability to work comfortably within structured data models and partner with data engineering teams on data sourcing and transformation.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.

Necessary Experience and Education

• 3–5+ years of experience in investment operations, fee billing, business analysis, or related financial services roles.
• Asset Management experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience supporting operational teams while also leading business analysis and project-based work.
• Proven ability to work independently on complex, high-impact initiatives while collaborating effectively across functions.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree or relevant certifications (e.g., Business Analysis, Project Management, Lean/Six Sigma) a plus.

Necessary Skills and Competencies

• Business and gap analysis
• Process improvement and automation mindset
• Strong communication (written and verbal)
• Stakeholder management and influence without authority
• Adaptability in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• High degree of ownership, accountability, and situational awareness

Salary Range:

$114,700 - 194,900 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.

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 Description

Seeking an individual contributor Sr Lead to drive secure enablement of Microsoft 365 Copilot and enterprise AI capabilities within the Data Protection Control Engineering team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating AI-related data protection and compliance controls using Microsoft Purview, Defender, and M365 security services. The Sr Lead will act as a hands-on technical expert, partnering across Security, Compliance, Privacy, and M365 teams to reduce AI-driven data risk while enabling productivity at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as hands-on technical lead for Copilot and AI security controls across Microsoft Purview, Defender, and M365.

Configure, deploy, troubleshoot, and operate controls in ENT and ENTUAT environments; support production changes via approved change windows.

Design and implement Copilot-related controls spanning Information Protection labeling, DLP, Endpoint DLP, Insider Risk, Communication Compliance, Data Lifecycle Management, and DSPM for AI.

Review and secure Copilot platform configurations including web grounding, agents, connectors, transcripts, and retention settings.

Develop alerting, monitoring, automation, and operational runbooks to ensure stability and audit readiness.

Act as subject matter expert, providing guidance to engineering, operations, and governance stakeholders.

Track delivery using Azure DevOps and contribute to Copilot readiness, Zero Trust alignment, and governance activities.

Copilot Effort –

Define and implement Copilot-protected file, group, and site labels and prevent unauthorized content ingestion.

Expand browser and endpoint DLP protections, including copy/paste controls and Copilot prompt security.

Establish AI risk use cases, alerting, and operational workflows within Insider Risk and Communication Compliance.

Operationalize DSPM for AI reporting, oversharing remediation, and continuous reassessment of AI data exposure.

Support AI governance processes including risk assessments, decision logs, and stakeholder reporting.

Must-Have AI Security Skills

LLM security fundamentals and threat modeling, including data exposure and indirect prompt injection risks.

Prompt injection and prompt data leakage mitigation techniques.

Agent and connector risk management, including permissions, grounding sources, and least-privilege access.

AI and model governance concepts such as risk assessments, control mapping, and policy alignment.

Monitoring and alerting for abnormal or risky AI usage patterns.

Qualifications

College degree or equivalent experience in cyber security, engineering, or a related field.

Hands-on experience administering Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

Strong knowledge of data governance, DLP technologies, and information security best practices.

Scripting and automation experience (PowerShell, Python, Power Automate).

Experience with ServiceNow incident and change management processes.

Preferred Skills & Certifications

Experience with M365 services (SharePoint Online, Teams, Exchange, Entra ID), Sentinel, Zscaler, or Symantec DLP.

Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Security/Compliance, CISSP, CISM, CISA, or SANS.

Salary Range:

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.

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.

Role Description

Northern Trust seeks a Cybersecurity AI Delivery Lead to drive execution of strategic cybersecurity projects and programs that enable secure adoption and operation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) including agentic AI systems and Large Language Models (LLMs.)  The Delivery Lead ensures AI solutions are designed and implemented with appropriate identity controls for both human and non-human/agent identities, robust data protection and privacy controls for prompts and training data, and operational monitoring and response controls for AI-enabled services and workloads.

Major Duties

Program Delivery:

• Lead global, cross-functional teams consisting of security engineers, platform engineers, data/ML engineers, product owners, and consultants to drive successful execution of strategic cybersecurity and AI security projects and programs.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define expected benefits, risk-reduction outcomes, and measurable control objectives for AI-enabled capabilities; ensure successful achievement through project completion.
• Plan and execute delivery of AI-related IAM controls (e.g., workload identities, managed identities/service principals, least privilege, approval workflows, secrets/key management) to govern access by AI services and autonomous agents.
• Plan and execute delivery of AI-related data protection controls (e.g., data classification, DLP, encryption/key management, retention, masking/tokenization, prompt/response handling, embedding and vector store protections) aligned to enterprise privacy and regulatory requirements.
• Plan and execute delivery of AI-related security operations controls (e.g., logging/telemetry for AI requests, abuse monitoring, anomaly detection, SIEM/SOAR integrations, incident response playbooks, red teaming, and continuous validation).
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies to ensure successful project completion. This includes AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, sensitive information disclosure, excessive agency, insecure output handling, and model theft.
• Develop integrated project schedules including effort estimates and task sequencing; ensure projects are optimally coordinated across product teams, control owners, and platform teams for efficient delivery.
• Lead resolution of conflicts and escalations in support of project or program delivery.
• Create and submit weekly project/program status reports that are accurate, timely, and comply with team guidelines; provide clear, executive-ready risk and decision narratives.
• Establish and maintain a project artifact repository; review deliverables to ensure quality and adherence to internal software delivery methodology as well as AI lifecycle governance.

Communication and Stakeholder Management:

• Develop project charters; develop and execute project communication plans.
• Facilitate engagement with cross-impacted technology and business stakeholders.
• Translate complex AI/LLM and agentic-system concepts (architecture, data flows, model behavior, controls) into clear, actionable plans and decisions for stakeholders.
• Identify and execute approaches to resolve complex problems through critical thinking, structured analysis, and fact-based recommendations.

Change / Risk Management:

• Define and document project scope and ensure scope alignment to project objectives and goals.
• Perform and follow project change control procedures for scope, resources, and financials where required.
• Ensure adherence to technology Change Management requirements and procedures for system implementations and AI model/service releases.
• Drive AI security and risk activities across the delivery lifecycle including AI threat modeling, control design reviews, testing/evaluation, and go-live readiness assessments.

Financial Management

Oversee financial management and performance for projects including:

• developing and/or managing project-specific capital and expense budgets including all financial form submissions required by internal finance teams
• preparing and submitting timely monthly forecasts (i.e., Clarity PPM)
• proactively analyzing and managing monthly budget variance
• optimizing spending on assigned projects
• participation in annual budget planning

Staff Management

• Identify project resource needs and work with leadership to ensure staffing requirements are met.
• Manage project resources to deliver tasks, optimize resource utilization, and resolve conflicts.
• Provide constructive performance feedback regarding staff performance to leadership and line managers.
• Foster a supportive project delivery environment that encourages participation, teamwork, and collaboration.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required:

A successful candidate for the role will have at least 10 years of overall experience including in the Financial Services industry, with at least 5 years’ experience leading and managing high-visibility technology projects that involve Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, the candidate will possess:

• Strong executive presence and communication skills with experience leading high-visibility initiatives in a fast-paced program environment.
• Cybersecurity Project Management Experience – leading and driving execution of cybersecurity projects related to Identity & Access Management (e.g., PAM, IGA, IAA), Data Protection, Security Operations, Attack Surface Management, or adjacent control domains.
• AI Delivery & Security Experience including delivering AI/ML or GenAI capabilities (including LLM and agentic AI solutions) in regulated environments, with demonstrated expertise in securing AI services, data pipelines, and AI-enabled applications.
• Agentic AI & LLM Technical Fluency, including working knowledge of LLM application patterns (e.g., tool/function calling, orchestration, vector/embedding stores), agent frameworks, and common failure modes (hallucinations, prompt injection, excessive agency).
• AI-Related IAM Controls – experience designing/implementing identity and access controls for AI services and agents (e.g., workload identities, managed identities/service principals, OAuth/OIDC flows, RBAC/ABAC, privileged access workflows, secrets and API key management, approval, and just-in-time access).
• AI-Related Data Protection Controls – experience implementing data governance and protection controls for training/grounding data and user prompts/responses (e.g., classification, DLP, encryption/CMK, tokenization/masking, retention, secure data sharing, access logging, and data residency considerations).
• AI Security Operations Controls – experience operationalizing monitoring and response for AI services (e.g., audit and diagnostic logging, telemetry for model endpoints, abuse monitoring, anomaly detection, SOC runbooks, incident response for data leakage or model misuse).
• Framework & Threat Modeling Knowledge – familiarity with AI governance and security frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) and AI threat catalogs (e.g., OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS) and ability to translate them into delivery requirements, controls, and measurable outcomes.
• Organizational Savvy – experience working within a matrixed organization to drive delivery of complex projects involving multiple disciplines.
• Critical Thinking Skills – ability to oversee ambiguous or complex issues including identifying creative resolution paths and gaining alignment and support from leadership and stakeholders to bring to resolution.
• Superior Communication Skills – ability to translate complex work into digestible terms; able to articulate ideas and information verbally and in writing for varying audiences, including senior executives.
• Initiative – evidence of taking initiative at suggesting improvements and anticipating the needs of leadership, program stakeholders, and team members.
• Organizational Skills – able to manage multiple simultaneous work deliverables and prioritize them accordingly.
• Delivery Mindset – has a delivery mindset with a bias for action, curiosity to learn, challenge, and enhance processes.
• Expert Analytical Skills – able to assemble data, analyze patterns and trends, and draw conclusions and recommendations; rely on data to guide decisions.
• Financial Management Experience – managing project budgets between $250K to $3M comprised of internal and external labor.
• Knowledge of and experience working in software delivery lifecycle methodologies (e.g., Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, etc.) and AI lifecycle controls (e.g., model release governance, testing/validation evidence).
• Experience in demand & capacity management.
• Proficiency with: Project planning tools such as MS Project, Azure DevOps (or similar), Clarity PPM, Microsoft Office 365 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), MS Teams
• A College or University degree; MBA or relevant advanced degree a plus.
• Current PMP certification is strongly preferred but not required.
• Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM) and/or AI/Cloud certifications (e.g., Azure, AWS) a plus.

Salary Range:

$137,400 - 240,400 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.

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.

Continue to Learn, Grow and Evolve

No matter what greater means to you, we can help you find it. We believe in empowering our partners with the resources, support, and opportunities to achieve greater and reach their full potential. A strong focus on individual career development and growth is just one way we help you reach your goals.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to strengthening the communities in which we live and work.

Who We Are

We are committed to growing and supporting a diverse team, with a collaborative environment that provides educational and career growth opportunities.

Director, Finance Technology

As a Director, Finance Technology, you will be responsible for providing leadership, guidance, and direction in developing Northern Trust’s Finance Technology capabilities and platforms and accountable operational excellence of core Finance technology platforms that support Northern Trust’s financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and business decision‑making.

The role involves working closely with Finance leadership, Regulatory stakeholders, and Technology teams across the enterprise to modernize and operate critical Finance platforms.

Key areas of responsibility include Financial Planning & Forecasting, Accounting Rules Engine (ARE), Subledger and General Ledger platforms, Regulatory Reporting (including FR2052a), and Finance Data & Controls enablement. In this role, you will ensure strong alignment between Finance strategy and technology execution, while driving platform modernization, delivery excellence, and high‑performing teams.

Scope of Accountability

Primary Platforms & Capabilities

• Financial Planning & Forecasting platforms
• Accounting Rules Engine (ARE) and subledger capabilities
• General Ledger integrations and close enablement
• Regulatory and liquidity reporting platforms (including FR2052a)
• Finance data lineage, controls, and reconciliation enablement

Stakeholder Coverage

• Finance (Controller, CFO org, Planning & Treasury)
• Risk & Regulatory partners
• Corporate Technology & Data platforms
• External vendors and strategic partners

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Transformation

• Define and execute the Finance Technology strategy and roadmap, aligned to Finance modernization and regulatory priorities.
• Lead enterprise‑scale Finance transformation initiatives, including accounting engine modernization, platform consolidation, and data standardization.

Delivery & Platform Ownership

• Own end‑to‑end delivery, stability, and evolution of Finance platforms across Planning, ARE, GL, and Regulatory Reporting.
• Ensure platforms meet regulatory, audit, SOX, and operational resilience expectations, with strong controls and traceability.

Business Partnership

• Partner with Finance and Treasury leadership to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Provide clear executive‑level visibility into risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.

Engineering & Operating Model

• Lead and develop high‑performing global engineering and product teams.
• Drive disciplined execution across Agile delivery, release management, and incident response.
• Reduce key‑person risk and improve sustainability through talent development and succession planning.

Vendor & Financial Management

• Govern strategic vendors and platform providers, ensuring delivery quality, cost discipline, and roadmap alignment.
• Optimize technology spend while improving platform reliability and capability depth.

Success Measures

• Reliable, well‑controlled Finance and Regulatory reporting outcomes
• Measurable progress in Finance platform modernization
• Improved data quality, reconciliation, and audit confidence
• Predictable delivery and reduced operational risk
• Strong leadership bench and sustainable global operating model

Required Experience & Profile

• Senior technology leadership experience within Finance, Accounting, or Regulatory platforms in a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong technical foundation with prior hands‑on engineering or architecture experience.
• Deep understanding of finance data flows, accounting processes, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Proven ability to lead complex, multi‑stakeholder transformation programs.

Knowledge and Skills Required

• Strong leadership experience across technology, people, and processes within Finance and Accounting domains.
• Hands‑on experience delivering Finance technology solutions supporting:
• Financial Planning & Forecasting
• Accounting Rules Engines / Subledger platforms
• General Ledger integrations
• Regulatory and liquidity reporting (e.g., FR2052a)
• Deep understanding of finance and accounting data flows, controls, reconciliation, and data lineage.
• Proven experience modernizing or operating large‑scale Finance platforms in a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong technical background with hands‑on development, architecture, or platform engineering experience earlier in career.
• Expertise in vendor management and strategic partnerships, including delivery governance and cost management.
• Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and mature global technology teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior Finance, Risk, and Technology stakeholders.

Education

A College or University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance Systems, or equivalent relevant work experience is required.

Salary Range:

$164,600 - 288,000 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.

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.

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Director of Software Engineering to lead our Enterprise DevSecOps function. This strategic leadership role is responsible for driving the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of our DevSecOps practices across a large-scale enterprise environment comprising over 700 applications and nearly 7,000 CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines.

The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise in on-prem/Mainframe and cloud-native technologies, modern DevOps practices, and security-first engineering with strong leadership capabilities to manage a geographically distributed team of up to 20 DevOps engineers and developers across onsite and offshore locations.

This role requires a forward-thinking leader with strong AI skills and experience in Agentic SDLC and Agentic DevOps methodologies to drive innovation and automation at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Define and execute the enterprise DevSecOps strategy aligned with organizational goals, ensuring security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle
• Drive the adoption of AI-powered automation, Agentic SDLC, and Agentic DevOps practices to enhance developer productivity, reduce cycle times, and improve software quality
• Establish and maintain DevSecOps governance frameworks, standards, and best practices across all development teams
• Partner with executive leadership, architecture teams, and business stakeholders to align technology initiatives with business objectives
• Lead technology evaluation and selection for DevSecOps tooling, ensuring optimal return on investment

Team Management & Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of up to 20 DevOps engineers and developers across onsite and offshore locations
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration across geographically distributed teams
• Establish clear performance objectives, conduct regular performance reviews, and create career development paths for team members
• Manage resource allocation, capacity planning, and workload distribution across multiple projects and priorities
• Build and maintain strong relationships with offshore partners and ensure effective collaboration across time zones

Technical Operations & Platform Management

• Oversee the maintenance, optimization, and evolution of approximately 7,000 CI/CD and IaC pipelines supporting 700+ applications
• Drive excellence in our Azure cloud infrastructure including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps (ACA), Static Web Apps, and other Azure services
• Ensure robust CI/CD practices using GitHub for source code management and GitHub Actions for pipeline automation
• Maintain and optimize microservice architectures across diverse technology stacks including .NET, Java, Python, and ReactJS
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code practices using industry-leading tools and methodologies

Security & Quality Assurance

• Champion security-first development practices through comprehensive integration of security tools throughout the SDLC
• Manage and optimize code quality scanning with SonarQube, ensuring code meets enterprise quality standards
• Oversee software composition analysis (CxOne SCA) and static application security testing (CxOne SAST) programs
• Drive Infrastructure as Code security scanning using WIZ to identify and remediate vulnerabilities
• Manage dynamic application security testing (DAST) using Insight AppSec to identify runtime vulnerabilities

Testing & Reliability Engineering

• Lead functional test automation initiatives using Selenium and Playwright frameworks
• Oversee performance testing programs using LoadRunner to ensure application scalability and reliability
• Drive chaos engineering practices using Chaos Monkey to improve system resilience and fault tolerance
• Establish and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs for platform reliability and team performance

Change & Release Management

• Oversee change and release management processes through ServiceNow integration
• Ensure compliance with enterprise change management policies and regulatory requirements
• Drive continuous improvement in release velocity while maintaining stability and security
• Coordinate cross-functional release activities and manage release calendars

AI Integration & Innovation

• Pioneer the adoption of AI-powered development tools and intelligent automation across the DevOps toolchain
• Lead initiatives in Agentic SDLC implementation, leveraging AI agents to automate code reviews, testing, and deployment decisions
• Drive Agentic DevOps practices including intelligent pipeline optimization, predictive failure detection, and automated incident response
• Evaluate and implement AI/ML solutions for code generation, security vulnerability detection, and performance optimization
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, driving innovation within the organization

Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions for CI/CD and Infrastructure as code (IaC) pipeline development
• Deep expertise with Microsoft Azure cloud services and resources, particularly AKS, ACA, and Static Web Apps, Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible Tower.
• Extensive knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservice architecture
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and practices (Terraform for Azure)

Experience:

• ~10 years of progressive experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
• ~5 years of experience in engineering leadership roles, including managing distributed teams
• Proven track record of leading large-scale DevOps transformations in enterprise environments
• Experience managing teams of 15+ engineers across multiple geographic locations

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field; Master's degree preferred
• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
• 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, including managing distributed teams
• Proven track record of leading large-scale DevOps transformations in enterprise environments
• Experience managing teams of 15+ engineers across multiple geographic locations

Technical Expertise

• Deep expertise with Microsoft Azure cloud services, particularly AKS, ACA, and Static Web Apps, Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible Tower.
• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipeline development
• Extensive knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservice architectures
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages including .NET, Java, Python, and JavaScript/ReactJS
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and practices (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates)
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and security-first development practices

Security & Quality Tools

• Experience with code quality tools (SonarQube or equivalent)
• Knowledge of SAST/SCA tools (Checkmarx CxOne, Snyk, or similar)
• Familiarity with IaC security scanning (WIZ, Checkov, or equivalent)
• Experience with DAST tools (Insight AppSec, OWASP ZAP, or similar)

AI & Emerging Technologies

• Strong AI skills with practical experience implementing AI-powered solutions in DevOps workflows
• Understanding of AI/ML fundamentals, LLMs, and their application in software development
• Experience with AI coding assistants and automated code review tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Agentic SDLC methodologies and implementation
• Hands-on experience with Agentic DevOps practices including AI-driven pipeline automation
• Experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright)
• Knowledge of performance testing tools (LoadRunner, JMeter)
• Experience with chaos engineering practices (Chaos Monkey, Gremlin)
• ServiceNow administration or integration experience
• Relevant certifications: Azure Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS certifications, or equivalent
• Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government)

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and execute long-term DevSecOps strategies aligned with business goals
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to present complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Collaboration: Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, vendors, and executive stakeholders
• Change Management: Experience leading organizational change and driving adoption of new technologies and practices
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills with the ability to solve complex technical and organizational challenges
• Innovation: Passion for emerging technologies and continuous improvement; entrepreneurial mindset

Salary Range:

$164,600 - 288,000 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.

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.

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.

Your Role

The SVP, AI Architect will serve as a strategic member of the Enterprise Architecture organization, providing expert guidance, thought leadership, and hands-on support across all areas of generative AI and machine learning within the enterprise. This role is responsible for shaping and influencing the organization’s AI strategy, ensuring that innovation is pursued with intention, security, and appropriate governance.

In this role, the AI Architect will drive controlled and sustainable AI adoption, enabling meaningful efficiency gains through intelligent automation, process optimization, and the integration of advanced AI capabilities into enterprise solutions. Success requires a deep and ongoing awareness of emerging AI technologies, evolving industry best practices, and the rapidly shifting landscape of generative AI.

The ideal candidate understands how AI can augment and streamline the developer experience, improve delivery velocity, and enhance solution quality. Equally important is the ability to bridge business objectives with technical architectures—translating complex concepts into actionable strategies and ensuring that AI solutions align with enterprise priorities, value drivers, and risk management frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide input, guidance, and expertise on generative AI and machine learning within the enterprise

• Drive controlled growth in AI initiatives and deliver efficiency gains through automation and AI adoption

• Stay abreast of the latest AI developments and technologies

• Advise on how AI can enhance the developer experience and consult with application development teams

• Bridge the gap between business and technology by aligning technical solutions with business needs

• Drive AI governance through Architecture Review Boards

Preferred Skills

• Deep experience with generative AI, machine learning, and enterprise‑grade AI/ML systems in regulated industries.

• Strong enterprise architecture background and ability to align AI solutions with business strategy.

• Expertise in AI governance, regulatory frameworks, and implementing compliant risk controls.

• Proven experience scaling AI adoption across cross‑functional teams.

• Familiarity with AI architecture frameworks, MLOps best practices, and CI/CD for agentic applications.

• Mastery of Azure AI Foundry and working knowledge of AWS generative AI tools.

• Strong understanding of RAG applications and advanced prompt engineering techniques.

• Knowledge of tradeoffs across leading model providers and alignment to enterprise constraints.

• Experience tuning vector databases such as Postgres, Databricks, and Azure Search.

• Ability to define measurable AI ROI and differentiate AI vs automation use cases.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in AI, Data Science, Computer Science, or related field.

• Professional certifications in AI, machine learning, cloud architecture, or enterprise architecture.

• Experience with compliance and regulatory aspects of AI in financial services.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and experience with AI/ML frameworks.

• This role is primarily not a hands-on role, though building PoC and demo applications should be within their skillset so the chosen candidate should have strong programming skills, likely in Python or any OOP language (Java, C/C++, C#/.NET, Rust, Go, etc.).

• Model training or fine tuning experience

• Holds an Advanced cloud certification in Azure

• Experience with LangChain, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Databricks SDKs for ML

Salary Range:

$137,400 - 240,400 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.

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.

As an Associate Cyber Security Engineer in CIAM, you’ll design, implement, and operate secure, resilient client authentication and authorization services. You will work hands‑on across Okta (client IDP), PingAccess/PingFederate, and Okta Identity Governance (OIG). You will be part of an agile scrum team and collaborate with application teams across the bank to help build secure solutions for Azure applications and Java APIs and with our frontend team on a React login experience to deliver friction‑right security.

Key responsibilities:

Identity & Access Engineering

• Configure and operate Okta tenant policies, routing rules, branding, and customizations for the client login experience; implement secure enrollment and recovery flows.
• Implement Okta OIG capabilities (campaigns for access certifications, request workflows for enrollments, management of entitlements/bundles); assist in connector setup, data imports, and reporting.
• Support PingFederate/PingAccess (SAML/OIDC integrations, policy enforcement, token lifecycles, mTLS/headers) and help plan cutovers to Okta where feasible.

Application & API Security

• Partner with Java teams to secure APIs (OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWT validation, scopes/claims, Spring Security filters).

Cloud Security (Azure)

• Integrate CIAM with Azure services.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Apply CIAM controls for client password handling, secure transport, lockouts, profile‑change notifications, and auditability as defined in our IAM standards.
• Contribute to CIAM metrics, fraud/risk signals, and governance enhancements in alignment with our roadmap.

Operations & Collaboration

• Build/run automation (scripts/workflows), maintain runbooks, and resolve incidents with root‑cause analysis.
• Partner across platforms that span Microsoft, Okta, Ping and related services per IAM architecture scope.

Salary Range:

$80,800 - 133,400 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.

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.

Title: Principal Software Engineer

Role Overview

The Principal Software Engineer in NTAM Investments Technology is a senior technical leader with 10+ years’ experience in financial services responsible for architecting and delivering scalable software and data platforms with a strong emphasis on Python-based services, data engineering, and Cloud enablement . This role partners closely with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders in NTAM Investments to build secure, reliable, and high‑performance systems, while setting engineering standards and mentoring other engineers.

The ideal candidate has deep hands‑on expertise in Python /C#, React, strong SQL and data modeling capabilities, experience deploying on Microsoft Azure/Cloud, and demonstrated ability to design data driven performant financial applications.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Technical ownership, clearly communicate trade‑offs, risks, and dependencies to senior investment and technology stakeholders.
• 8+ year experience in leading the design, development, and deployment of scalable solutions using Python/C#, Azure services, and SQL‑based data platforms
• Define and enforce coding standards, architecture best practices, and development workflows through design and code reviews
• Drive modern architecture patterns including API‑driven microservices and event‑driven (pub/sub) systems
• Design and optimize SQL data models, queries, and stored procedures in Snowflake for performance and scalability
• Establish strong testing and quality standards, including unit testing and API test automation
• Champion adoption of GitHub Copilot as an AI‑assisted development capability (pair programming, refactoring, debugging, test generation) while ensuring SDLC discipline remains intact (peer review, testing, approvals, CI gates, scanning).

Collaboration, Influence & Mentorship

• Partner cross‑functionally with data engineering, architecture, and product teams to deliver cohesive solutions.
• Mentor and coach engineers across levels, raising the overall technical engineering practices.

• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non‑technical stakeholders and influence architectural decisions.

• Guide the team in best practices for SQL database design, optimization, and data integrity.

• Drive CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation for faster, reliable deployments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve critical production issues, ensuring high availability and performance of applications.

• Architect AI-driven applications, integrating machine learning models into production systems.

• Establish and maintain Copilot instruction files and reusable agent skills to encode team conventions (architecture guardrails, naming/testing standards, security expectations), reducing repetitive prompting and improving consistency of generated output across repositories. (preferred)

• Partner with DevOps / platform teams to drive measurable outcomes (e.g., cycle time improvements, testing automation adoption) and proactively manage bottlenecks created by increased throughput and review load.

Domain Knowledge (Highly Preferred)

• Experience with solutioning and integrating with Axioma portfolio optimizer, Risk models and developing Optimization constraints for Fixed Income portfolio construction.
• Understanding of Asset Management Investments asset classes (equities, fixed income, alternatives), portfolio theory, and investment constraints.
• Experience with Aladdin Enterprise/Charles River (CRD), Bloomberg AIM or other Portfolio and Order Management, integrating Aladdin SaaS to develop Investment tools and processes.
• Experience with financial data providers (e.g., Bloomberg, FactSet, MSCI) and APIs.

Salary Range:

$137,400 - 233,600 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.

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.

About Us

The Private Passport Platform is a core, client‑facing digital platform that supports wealth management clients and partners across account access, money movement, document exchange, investments, and secure collaboration. It is a cornerstone of our broader digital strategy and is actively evolving toward a modern, cloud‑based architecture with improved resiliency, scalability, and user experience.

Our team works closely with Product, Design, Architecture, Security, and Data partners to deliver features that are secure, reliable, and intuitive—while supporting both web and mobile experiences at scale.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer (Full‑Stack) to provide hands‑on technical leadership for the Private Passport Platform.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the design and delivery of complex full‑stack features
• Set engineering standards and guide technical decisions
• Act as a go‑to technical leader for engineers, product partners, and architects
• Balance hands‑on development with technical oversight and mentorship

This is a builder‑leader role - you will write code, review code, influence architecture, and help the team deliver reliably at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead the end‑to‑end design and implementation of full‑stack solutions across web, API, and backend services
• Partner with architecture and platform teams to align solutions with cloud and security standards for Private Passport
• Make sound technical decisions that balance speed, quality, security, and long‑term maintainability
• Identify and address technical debt, performance risks, and reliability gaps

Hands‑On Engineering

• Build and maintain high‑quality, production‑ready code across frontend and backend layers
• Lead and participate in code reviews, setting a high bar for quality and clarity
• Support mobile and web experiences, ensuring consistency and reliability across channels

Team Enablement & Mentorship

• Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, and constructive feedback
• Help engineers grow their technical depth and system‑level thinking
• Promote best practices in testing, observability, and operational readiness

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product and Design to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Partner with Security, Data, and Platform teams to ensure compliance, resilience, and performance
• Contribute to PI planning, technical forums, and leadership discussions for the Private Passport Platform

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain server-side logic using Java/Spring Boot
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices for seamless integration with front-end applications.
• Work with relational databases and NoSQL databases, ensuring data integrity and performance.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g., OAuth).
• Develop responsive and interactive user interfaces using React.js and related libraries (e.g., Redux, React Router).
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and optimize front-end performance for a seamless user experience.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate wireframes and designs into functional components.
• Integrate front-end and back-end components to create cohesive, end-to-end solutions.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues across the stack to ensure application reliability and performance.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices and coding standards.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives).
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other developers to deliver features on time and within scope.
• Contribute to code reviews, ensuring high-quality code and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Optimize applications for scalability, performance, and security.
• Participate in the evaluation and adoption of new tools, frameworks, and methodologies.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. Experience is the most relevant factor.
• Experience building secure, client‑facing applications
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and cloud‑based architectures
• 5+ years of experience with multiple programming languages such as Java/Spring Boot, JavaScript, React Ecosystem, Python, SQL/NoSQL, as well as unit testing frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud-native engineering, using PaaS, and microservices on cloud platforms such as AKS on Azure.
• Prior experience using methodologies & tools such as Scrum, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Checkmarks etc. to deliver high-quality products rapidly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud‑native architectures and modernization efforts
• Background in financial services or regulated environments
• Experience supporting mobile + web platforms used by external clients
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, and observability

Why Join This Team

• Work on a high‑impact platform that directly supports clients and advisors
• Influence the technical direction of a strategic, evolving digital platform
• Collaborate with experienced product, design, and architecture leaders

Opportunity to shape how modern engineering practices are applied at scale

Salary Range:

$99,600 - 169,200 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.

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.

At Northern Trust, we're leading the AI evolution through our One Horizon AI Program, embedding responsible, enterprise-scale AI capabilities to drive growth, resiliency, and productivity. With a start-up perspective, we're fundamentally transforming how our business operates and how we serve our clients. We're building AI capabilities in the cloud, from agentic AI systems and agent workspaces to production ML pipelines, along with the teams and responsible AI governance structures needed to support their development and deployment. Join us and be a part of our multi-year transformation journey to embed responsible, scalable AI capabilities across the enterprise—enabling intelligent automation, data-driven insights, and enhanced client and partner experiences. You'll have access to cutting-edge AI technologies and the latest development tools, real autonomy to shape our AI strategy, and opportunities to solve unique challenges at the intersection of AI and finance as you help create the agentic AI future for Northern Trust.

The Enterprise AI team at Northern Trust is part of our Technology group and performs data science research and develops applied AI solutions to solve problems that 1) are not adequately addressed by available commercial solutions, 2) enhance the customer and/or employee experience and 3) provide Northern Trust with a competitive advantage. We are at the forefront of rolling out Generative AI solutions and frameworks for the bank from Proof of Concepts tofull stack development of solutions and vendor evaluations.  We also serve to inspire and empower applied data science practitioners by facilitating high-quality data science education and collaboration within Northern Trust as well as with top universities and research institutions.

As a visionary AI Developer Leader, you will be a key player in developing, deploying, and maintaining state-of-the-art Generative AI solutions within the Azure cloud environment. Your role will focus on leading a team of AI engineers and working closely with other teams and architects to complete projects and provide guidance general AI topics and trends. This role requires a deep and proven understanding of traditional machine learning, current AI technologies and patterns as well as cloud computing, software engineering principals as well as strong leadership and the ability to guide a team through the entire AI solution lifecycle, from concept to production.

As a team manager, you will be expected to:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of AI developers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Define and execute the technical global strategy for AI solution development on Microsoft Azure, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Oversee the design and development of AI models and algorithms to solve complex business problems.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in MLOps & LLMOps, ensuring scalable, reliable, and efficient AI model deployment and management.
• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI/ML technologies, particularly within the Azure ecosystem, and evaluate their potential application.
• Conduct code reviews, provide technical guidance, and contribute to the architectural design of AI systems.
• Poses excellent problem-solving, analytical skills and strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of AI solutions.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources
• Communicate project status and results to stakeholders.
• Have proven experience with Azure AI services, including Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services, Copilot Studio and AI Foundry (or similar ISP tools).
• Have a deep understanding of Generative AI and LLMs, evaluation metrics and theory behind LLMs & conversational AI
• Full understanding of the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern and various tradeoffs.
• Have a working knowledge of MCP and A2A protocols for Agentic based flows.
• Have a working knowledge of AI based AI frameworks such as: LangChain, AutoGen, LangGraph, LamaIndex etc...
• Have a deep and working knowledge of IAC and automation
• Well versed in Software Quality Management (SQM) concepts and procedures.
• Be familiar with containerization i.e. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for managing and scaling containerized AI applications.
• Comply with industry standards, best practices and regulations for AI solutions.
• Work across multiple projects in a fluid environment where work is required across the full research lifecycle from forming a hypothesis, acquiring data, and developing ETL-style software to presenting findings.
• Provide guidance to other software development teams as prototypes and frameworks are engineered for full production environments

To be successful, you’ll have: proven experience in:

• AI/ML development (5+ years), with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role.
• Infrastructure as code (IAC) experience in any language, Terraform is preferred
• Full stack Azure application development
• Security related concepts and controls, particularly in the cloud environment: OAuth, virtual networks, subnets, private endpoints, authentication mechanisms, identities and RBAC.
• Data protection and encryption techniques and tooling such as key vaults, encryption keys, masking and concepts such as BYOK.
• DevOps including CI/CD techniques and tools particularly Azure based and Github repos
• Running large scale (either in parallel and/or distributed) training and inference jobs on private or public cloud infrastructure
• Developing open-source software in a collaborative environment, desired but not required.
• Experience in any Graph Database development is desired but not required.

Tools/Languages required: Python, Common Python libraries (NumPy , Pandas, Sklearn, etc.), Linux based operating systems, and basic development tools (Python IDEs, source control, etc.)

Tools/Languages preferred: Advanced distributed machine learning frameworks (e.g. Keras, TF, etc.)

Education required: Computer Science undergraduate degree and strong statistical background.

Preferred Qualifications: Data Science graduate degree, finance sector experience or coursework.

Certifications:  Certifications in Azure Security or DevOps are preferred, but not required. Azure AI Engineer Associate or equivalent are preferred, but not required.

Salary Range:

$164,600 - 288,000 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.

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.

Sr Lead Data Engineer

Key skills required for the role:

• Expertise in designing data driven solution on Snowflake for complex business needs.
• Investment Management or Asset Management experience recommended.
• Design the database, data models, ETL processes, and data warehouse applications through the use of best practices, tools and patterns.
• Expert level understanding of relational database concepts, dimensional database concepts and database architecture and design, ontology and taxonomy design.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Business or Finance or equivalent experience.
• Intellectual curiosity, inclination for independent and self-directed work, and attention to detail.
• Professional experience driving change, transformation, and process improvement initiatives.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders and executive leadership to achieve business outcomes
• Understanding of data security, cyber-security and PII management
• Deep understanding of relational and NoSQL data stores, methods and approaches.
• Advanced data analytics using ML, AI and GenAI

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage relationships with all stakeholders, with a focus on setting expectations and maintaining ongoing client satisfaction through effective project management and a strong commitment to customer service.
• Evangelize data strategist working through design, documentation, review and cross team negotiations to support strategic business and technology goals.
• Displays thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology
• Leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
• Provides architecture direction for engineers in support of a technical pattern.
• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt. Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture.
• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
• Participates in defining target state technology architecture and roadmaps. Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state.
• Contribute to a fast-paced Agile team and participate in multiple aspects of planning, documentation, execution, testing and launch of projects
• Interface with global teams to collaborative work on business deliveries.
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models for large scale technology platforms.

Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline is required.
• Seasoned expert with technical and business knowledge and functional expertise that has been developed over several years.
• Experience in systems analysis and application program development.
• Experience with project feasibility, definition requirements, design and/or project leadership.
• Experience with various technical programming languages, and phase report studies is required.

Salary Range:

$114,500 - 194,700 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.