Director, SW Engineering

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: Director, SW Engineering

In this role you will be accountable for the consistency in quality, overall performance, engineering soundness, security, execution of sprints, support and maintenance of all software engineering for the account open initiative.  You will participate in scrum ceremonies, project design discussions, business discussions, code reviews and even the hands-on creation or modification of software.  This position is a leadership role who will directly lead software engineering teams and collaborate with leaders from other teams (e.g. product management, security, infrastructure, and operations) to make engineering decisions, work through issues and align the product roadmap to our business outcomes.  Leadership and organizational skills are required to develop and manage the OKRs for the initiative.  You are familiar with operating in a hybrid environment, including on-prem, public cloud (I.E. Azure, AWS, GCP etc. ) and SaaS/PaaS partners.  You will partner and work closely with product leaders to ensure alignment with Northern Trust, Product and Technology OKRs for this high profile initiative.

Your day-to-day

·       Foster the development and maintenance of common engineering approaches consistent with organizational standards and industry best practices

·       Establish and maintain a balanced iteration cadence with a professional level of quality across all sprints

·       Understand cloud product development, managed cloud services, and able to provide technical and strategic feedback on improvement to the cloud product strategy total cost of ownership.

·       Use “Voice of the Customer” contributions from Product and business teams to continually improve solution design quality

·       Work with the product owners to apply the overall business strategy and priority to the software engineering backlog, working with business partners and software engineering team leaders to assist in sprint planning.

·       Continually improve cloud deployment practices to enable shorter release cycles

·       Work side by side with the Architecture and Engineering team to keep the software engineering roadmap aligned to company goals.

·       Partner with Product and engineering leadership to establish, manage and foster the improvement of processes such as agile practices, deployment planning, change management, on -call rotations, etc.

·       Maintain the integrity and efficiency of software engineering processes

·       Ensure laws, company policies, practices and procedures are followed by team members

Skills

·       Proven experience leading teams in the development and deployment of solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.

·       Hands-on experience in a multitude of domains including agile development, business analysis, software engineering, database design, enterprise software architecture, technology leadership and software quality assurance.

·       Extensive and relevant experience prioritizing the work of others, challenging and resolving interruptions to prioritized work, resolving interpersonal conflict and motivating and organizing teams.

·       Demonstrated solid understanding of scalable technology architectures

·       Hands-on technical experience solving business problems in, but not limited to one or more of the following business areas:  operations, back office systems, and/or business process re-engineering, workflow automation, robotics process automation, document life-cycle management

·       Directs systems projects, including project planning, management status reporting, systems specifications and implementation. May also implement and help identify measures to improve applications stability and availability, sustain and improve cost efficiencies and productivity gains

·       Ensures compliance with all audit requirements including change control procedures and data security

·       Knowledge of programming languages, various business applications, the computer industry, and various design and programming techniques is required to direct systems projects and resolve business problems with effective computer utilization.

·       Analytical and problem solving skills are needed for systems guidance.

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.