Jobs at Northern Trust

Processes physical securities and settlement activity, including deposits, withdrawals, transfers, corporate actions, and trade settlements. Resolves exceptions, verifies security transfer requirements with transfer agencies, supports internal partners, and responds to trade-related inquiries. The role requires financial instrument knowledge, analytical problem-solving, strong communication, multitasking, independent work, teamwork, and customer-service orientation.

Develop and maintain scalable full-stack applications using Java, React, and Spring Boot for a financial services SaaS platform. Responsibilities include modernizing legacy applications, designing architecture, coding, testing, debugging, documenting solutions, collaborating with SQA teams, gathering requirements, and supporting junior developers. The role requires Agile development, CI, test automation, secure coding practices, cross-team collaboration, technical leadership, and mentoring.

Leads customer identity and access management user experience initiatives, solving complex problems and improving existing solutions. Applies UX expertise across teams, analyzes varied information sources, builds consensus around sensitive or difficult topics, and serves as a resource for less experienced colleagues. May lead small projects with manageable risks and resources.

Onboard investment clients to the Omnium platform by coordinating with clients, service providers, IT, and shared services teams. Support multiple implementation projects, maintain project tracking documents, provide meeting updates, resolve trade breaks, validate portfolio data, perform reconciliations, document internal controls, and ensure timely, accurate client setup within established control frameworks.

Supports strategic Middle Office initiatives by translating business needs into development requirements, managing backlogs and workstreams, coordinating testing and implementation, and reporting delivery status, risks, dependencies, budgets, and forecasts. Partners across business, technology, testing, and shared services; facilitates governance meetings; drives issue resolution, stakeholder communication, process improvement, automation, and continuous improvement across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Analyzes cybersecurity threat-management information using established procedures, standard practices, and professional judgment. The role solves routine problems, exchanges information, supports team objectives, and delivers assigned contributions within deadlines. It requires conceptual knowledge of cybersecurity theories, practices, and procedures, along with general business knowledge gained through education or experience.

Leads cybersecurity threat management initiatives, solves complex security problems, applies advanced analytical judgment, recommends best practices, and guides teams or moderately complex projects to improve security-related products, processes, or services.

Lead large-scale organizational change initiatives by assessing stakeholder impacts, developing change and communication plans, measuring readiness and adoption, coordinating change workstreams, and supporting training and sustainment. The role partners with program teams, builds organizational change capabilities, mentors colleagues, and integrates change efforts across transformation programs.

Manages client relationships and resolves investment-related queries, produces client reports, supports understanding of investment impacts, and maintains process and service-level objectives. Collaborates with internal stakeholders to improve workflows, leads efficiency projects, oversees junior staff deliverables, identifies training needs, and provides guidance on investment banking processes and financial markets.

Supports alternative investment funds, including private equity, hedge funds, real assets, and fund-of-funds. Handles fund formation documents, investor onboarding, regulatory filings, legal research, transaction closings, capital calls, transfers, redemptions, entity records, and side-letter obligations. Coordinates with investors, administrators, compliance teams, auditors, external counsel, and government agencies. Requires strong knowledge of private fund structures, securities regulations, AML/KYC processes, and SEC and state filing requirements.

Manages and scales the Trust and Advisory Professional Apprenticeship Advisor Development Program. Responsibilities include learning design, content refinement, facilitation, stakeholder consulting, mentoring coordination, communications, performance measurement, and strategic learning project execution. The role partners with senior leaders to deliver scalable talent development solutions that improve employee performance and build advisor talent.

Owns the Coupa Risk Assess platform, including configuration, workflows, integrations, governance, data quality, reporting, access controls, and production support. Partners with procurement, risk, compliance, technology teams, and vendors to gather requirements, prioritize enhancements, manage testing and releases, support audits, and improve third-party risk processes. Maintains documentation, training, dashboards, and operational metrics while serving as the platform’s primary business relationship manager.

Leads product strategy, roadmap development, prioritization, and delivery for Private Passport investment and wealth management experiences. Translates complex portfolio data and investment concepts into intuitive digital capabilities across desktop and mobile. Partners with business, engineering, data, design, risk, compliance, and operations teams on requirements, APIs, integrations, Agile delivery, analytics, launch readiness, and continuous improvement.

Leads development and architectural evolution of an AI-powered code security scanner. Responsibilities include building user-facing dashboards and workflows, implementing secure authentication, extending backend scanning and orchestration services, integrating LLM-based security analysis, automating vulnerability validation and reporting, enhancing scalability, and mentoring junior engineers.

Lead development and architectural evolution of an AI-powered code security scanner. Build secure user-facing applications, reporting dashboards, backend orchestration and scanning services, LLM integrations, vulnerability analysis workflows, authentication, authorization, and cloud-native solutions. Mentor engineers and drive platform modernization, scalability, automation, testing, and long-term enhancements for enterprise applications in regulated environments.

Leads strategic initiatives across Transfer Agency to improve operational effectiveness, redesign processes, implement technology-enabled transformations, and enhance governance. Partners with cross-functional stakeholders, facilitates workshops, develops future-state operating models, creates metrics and dashboards, supports change management, and monitors benefits realization. The role identifies automation opportunities, documents workflows, supports adoption and training, and drives continuous improvement through data-informed decision-making.

Owns complex wealth management client onboarding and transition events from intake through completion. Coordinates documentation, account opening, funding, asset transfers, fees, tax and risk requirements across front-office, operations, and specialist teams. Provides client status communication, tracks milestones, resolves issues, escalates delays, facilitates review meetings, verifies completion readiness, and identifies process improvements. Requires strong financial-services operations knowledge, cross-functional coordination, communication, judgment, and attention to detail.

Conducts risk reviews, tests operational controls, supports governance and reporting, evaluates incidents and losses, performs RCSA activities, reviews policies, escalates control issues, and leads remediation and operational loss event activities across Asset Servicing.

Executes operational risk and control reviews, tests processes, analyzes incidents and losses, supports RCSA activities, validates audit remediation, and recommends control enhancements. The role partners with global Operations stakeholders, reviews policies and procedures, monitors regulatory adherence, facilitates risk initiatives, and contributes to control governance, reporting, and strategic change.

Leads enterprise phishing and social engineering simulations, including email, smishing, and vishing campaigns. Manages awareness platforms, designs risk-based scenarios, analyzes behavioral trends, develops dashboards and leadership reporting, and creates targeted cybersecurity education. Partners with cybersecurity, technology, risk, compliance, communications, and business teams to improve secure behaviors and continuously enhance the program based on emerging threats and campaign data.