Senior Analyst, 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.

Job Description: Associate, Java Full Stack Engineer & Support

For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and 18,500 employees globally. We serve the world’s most-sophisticated clients – from sovereign wealth funds and the wealthiest individuals and families, to the most-successful hedge funds and corporate brands.

We burnished our reputation as a global leader delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions enabled by sophisticated, leading technology. And through it all, we continually laid a solid, forward-looking foundation on which future generations can continue growing and achieving greater.

We are looking for an individual with a passion for growing skills as well as solving complex and challenging problems. The person will be part of Shared Services Global Technology Group and will be responsible for Troubleshooting Production issues and providing code fixes, handling Client Queries & communications, Automate repetitive activities to increase efficiencies, collaborating with business stakeholders and writing quality, accurate, testable code along with the right architecture, and deployments of Technical changes. He will work with a geographically dispersed, agile team to effectively translate requirements into solutions and seamlessly interface with business partners and technical staff.

Major Duties

• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle including Production Support
• Implementing and maintaining Java applications with Oracle Backend that are often high-volume and low-latency, required for mission-critical systems
• Writing well-designed, efficient, and testable code
• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging
• Ensuring designs comply with specifications
• Understand, define, develop, test, deploy and support change requests
• Preparing and producing releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement
• Interact with project and application stakeholders.
• Coordinate development activities with other teams.
• Provide clear development progress or any roadblocks in Scrum calls
• Ensure software is developed in alignment with Bank standards, best practices and performance requirements.
• Implement opportunities to improve production stability and automate manual tasks
• Investigating, diagnosing, and solving application issues.
• Build solutions to fix production issues and participate in ongoing software maintenance activities including DR’s ( Disaster recovery)
• Work with application, infrastructure, messaging and data teams to identify and resolve support issues.
• Attend on-call after office hours including weekend to support High and Critical production issues.
• Monitor and attend to all alerts and escalate production issues as needed to relevant Stakeholders
• Problem resolution in an analytical and logical manner, to troubleshoot root cause and resolve production incidents.
• Work with the team to resolve problems, improve production reliability, stability, and availability.
• Follow the ITIL processes of Incident, Problem & Change Management.

Knowledge/Skills

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or higher as well as related field of study
• 4+ years of professional experience in software development
• Good understanding of Object Oriented technology and standard Java development frameworks, including OOD and OOP skills.
• Experience in using IDEs like Eclipse 3.x, IntelliJ IDEA
• Experience in front-end and back-end software development in the Java environment and able to go into code to investigate and fix issues
  • Hands on exposure to Java,
  • Understanding of Modern Spring Frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Services, Spring Security, etc.), and REST API Development
  • Understanding of UI Development skills using React JS, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Working knowledge of SQL(Preferably Oracle, MSSQL).
• Experience  of troubleshooting common database issues.
• Good understanding of Unix commands and Scripting.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of Financial Domain and Trade Life Cycle
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) experience using Bamboo or any other CI/CD tool ( Preferrable Azure DevOps)
• Good understanding of Build tools like MAVEN, Gradle and SCM tools like GIT.
• Basic understanding of Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience of Utilizing technological skills to automate repetitive tasks
• Knowledge of DB Performance Tunning
• Basic understanding of Messaging like KAFKA, RabbitMQ, Solace.
• Understanding Agile techniques preferred
• Administer the automated job scheduling system, Control-M.
• Knowledge of Monitoring tools such as Dynatrace
• Experience in incident management, understanding of ticket workflows and use of escalation.
• Working knowledge of Cloud.
• Good to have NoSQL knowledge.
• Good understanding of Change Management process and tools
• Experience with ServiceNow is beneficial.

Personal

• Excellent Analytical and Problem Solving Skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Highly flexible and adaptable to change
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to work well with people
• Willingness to sometimes work unsociable hours
• Enthusiasm for continual learning

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.