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/Department:
This role is for a technology portfolio supporting various suite of applications for Fund administration/Asset servicing business. This portfolio is responsible for supporting a critical business function deliver Net Asset Value to clients using in-house as well as vended products. Application stack includes various technology from Mainframe, .Net, Java and is going through modernization to cloud based architecture leveraging microservices, Kafka, CI/CD, test automation strategy and so on.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
Guides the development, specification and communication of application or infrastructure architectures used by multiple business or application systems.
Provides extensive, in-depth, technical consultation to the clients, partners, and IT Management to develop plans and directions to assure the integration of corporate business area requirements.
Thoroughly understands decision process issues of technology choice, such as design, data security, client server communication, etc.
Partner with Management in the building of new and on-going vendor relationships
Evaluates and selects from existing and emerging technologies those options best fitting business/project needs
Promotes sharing of expertise through consulting, presentations, and documentations, etc.
Experienced, functional expert with technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise
Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous projects
Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to help improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity
Strategic in developing, implementing, and administering programs within functional areas
Provides guidance to team members, fostering an environment that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and communication
Skills/qualifications:
The successful candidate will benefit from having:
In-depth knowledge of various Software Development Life Cycle Application development frameworks
Manage entire technology platform for the portfolio including access controls, Vulnerabilities, Disaster recovery plans, release planning, testing standards etc
Experience working with Microsoft Azure, AWS, hybrid, and multi-cloud systems
Very good understanding of zero-trust architecture and working experience with relevant tools/technologies
Knowledge related Artificial Intelligence/Machine Language, Devops pipeline, IaC, and relevant tools
Very good understanding of concepts related to docker, container, serverless computing, and Kubernetes
Must be able to represent the team in technical discussions and drive towards deliverables with minimal guidance
Deep knowledge of application or infrastructure systems architecture, usually having experience with multiple system technologies.
Excellent consultative and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with client, partner, and IT management and staff.
Strong knowledge/understanding of Azure or related cloud development along with Java, Microservices, APIs, Kafka etc
Strong collaboration skills and analytical ability
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline and experience in information technology, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
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.
