Data Engineer

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.

Northern Trust is currently looking for a Data Engineer to join our growing Data Delivery team in the Portfolio Accounting domain. This is a critical role leveraging cloud-based tools and provide thought leadership in enhancing existing data solutions.

The successful candidate will be customer-focused and passionate about leveraging modern data architecture and technology to create significant business impact across organizational boundaries. This engineer will bring experience with SaaS/cloud solutions (Snowflake/Azure), data engineering techniques, DevSecOps automation, and best practices for building, maintaining, and enhancing state-of-the-art big data platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Define and deliver a large enterprise-scale big data ecosystem; evaluate existing data architecture and work with the team members to continuously enhance and evolve the data technology stack.
• Perform hands-on tasks of implementing data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Snowflake SQL and procedures.
• Ensure that all Non-Functional Requirements (e.g., security, performance, availability and DR/fail-over, scalability, compliance etc.) are properly articulated, designed, implemented, and well documented.
• Evaluate, prototype and recommend emerging Cloud data technologies and platforms from open source or vendors. Independently conduct POC projects.
• Communicate complex technical topics to non-technical business personnel and assist with scoping and architecting cloud data solutions.
• Partner with Data Governance team to ensure the completion and accuracy in metadata collections using Collibra.
• Promote data mesh technology to broad user groups in both technology and business organizations.

Required

• At least 8 years of experience developing data and services in an enterprise and/or cloud environment.
• Deep understanding of data warehouse, data lake architecture and data management processes.
• Strong proficiency in developing and optimizing SQL modules.
• Hands-on expertise of multiple modern cloud storages and services such as Snowflake, Azure.
• Hands-on experience of DevOps and automation tooling such as Terraform, and Github.
• Working experience using ETL/analytics tools such as DataBricks, or ADF, etc.
• Skilled in variety of languages or framework, such as Java or Python.
• Familiarity with Data Governance practices and tooling such as Collibra.
• Strong organization and communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

Preferred Specific Skills:

• Knowledge of data analytics technology and methodology, such as advanced analytics or machine learning.
• Experience with DevOps, DataOps and/or MLOps using ADO.
• Working knowledge of data security such as SecuPi.
• Working experience with Azure and AWS cloud data and service offerings.
• Experience in writing scripts for Linux shell and Windows PowerShell.

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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

 
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.