Lead Software 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.

Introduction: 

Northern Trust Shared Services Technology team is seeking an experienced and dynamic individual to join the Mutual Funds Automation development team. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer who will be responsible for all development life-cycle events of applications and services along with providing support to our business and technology teams to ensure stability of both production and non-production environments.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Obtain a highly detailed understanding of the applications for which the role is responsible with a goal of acting as a technical expert when interfacing with internal and external teams and senior management.
• Provide technical expertise at the highest-level including training, leadership and guidance to other applications or infrastructure architecture staff, ensuring secure coding and robust architecture guidelines are met.
• Develop and maintain computer programs including designing, coding, testing, debugging, and installation.
• Resolve incidents/failures and ensure closure within the service level agreement. Perform root cause analysis and provide solution/work around for incidents.
• Provide support for audit and regulatory compliance related activities.
• Work closely with architects and other enterprise stakeholders to ensure solution alignment with best enterprise practices.
• Provide input into strategic planning and long-range direction for technology in the business unit.
• Develop technical specifications and guide development for application’s business initiatives, technology changes and migrations.
• Evaluate and select from existing and emerging technologies those options best fitting business and enterprise needs.
• Thoroughly understand decision process of technology choice, such as capacities, response time, data interfacing, client server communication, industry standard technologies and new industry trends.
• Provide in-depth technical consultation to clients, partners, and IT management to develop plans and directions to assure the integration of corporate business requirements.
• Work within an Agile scrum team framework; taking stories and tasks during the sprint, participating actively with product backlog refinement, daily stand-up, and bi-weekly sprint boundary meetings.
• Conduct feasibility studies and design system requirements for complex software development projects.
• Actively update knowledge and skills to keep up with advancements in industry advances and software.
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes and investigating problem areas.
• Ensure priority incidents are being addressed in a timely manner to avoid major incidents.
• Support scheduled weekend activities including production releases and disaster recovery events.
• Role is balanced between high level operational execution and development, and execution of strategic direction of business function activities.

Qualifications and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in application development experience using Java and other object-oriented technologies.

• Required expertise:
  • Experience working on Cloud based – Java applications.
  • Experience in development of Java J2EE applications.
  • Application integration using API, REST and SOAP web services.
  • Experience with Service Oriented Architecture applications and cloud-based services, preferably PCF.
  • Working knowledge of DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Understanding of OAuth 2.0, Ping Federate and Zscaler.
  • Database/Stored Procedure experience preferably with DB2, Oracle >= 11g versions.
  • Knowledge of code version control tools – GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, etc.
  • Desired experience with Spring, Web services, APIs such as JDBC, Hibernate, Eclipse IDE.
  • Understanding of Unix Shell Scripting and Legacy platform.
  • Experience in messaging gateways – Kafka, Solace, MQ.
  • Cloud Computing concepts and deployment; PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure etc.
• Good to have:
  • Programming analysis and design expertise with trading applications and knowledge of Capital Markets related acumen and required capabilities.
  • Understanding of Appian low code applications.
  • Working experience on SaaS products.
  • Knowledge of monitoring/log aggregation APM tools like App Dynamics, Splunk, Dynatrace, ELK, etc.
  • Familiar with Linux environment and scripting.
  • Understanding of Test Driven (TDD) and Behavior Driven (BDD) development.
  • Understanding of Business Object or Reporting tools.
  • Understanding of mainframe files and SFTP setup.
• Team player including:
  • Positive attitude and respect for peers; works well with both business and technology partners.
  • Excellent consultative and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with internal and external clients, business partners, and technology staff. 
  • Ability to learn quickly and think and work independently.
  • Desire to learn and understand the business processes of the applications for which the role is responsible.
  • Shows ownership of work from inception to deployment and support in production.
  • Self-reliant and fully responsible for their deliverables.

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.