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.

Our Entitlement Practice is in the midst of transforming its core products and platforms to enable industry leading capabilities and achieve forward looking, strategic outcomes. Northern Trust is looking for a technically savvy and seasoned Full Stack Engineering to help lead Entitlements in defining and delivering innovative, leading edge, cost-effective technology solutions to progress their strategy.

This role would have the opportunity to work with some of the latest technologies and methodologies, have excellent exposure to highly experienced and tech savvy resources, and collaborate with multiple application teams, vendors, and business partners around the globe. This position will be responsible for working closely with Senior Entitlement Technology, Practice, and Product leaders to understand the business and technical goals; help define solutions, target technologies and designs, and high level roadmaps to achieve these goals; and ensure day to day design decisions across Entitlement Technology Teams and projects align to the enterprise and business strategies and objectives.

Job Description AND Principal Responsibilities

• The position will work closely with some highly experienced and tech savvy resources & collaborate with multiple application teams/business partners around the globe.
• Review complex requirements/JIRA stories and translate into effective, efficient, high performing solutions that leverage fit for purpose patterns and technologies.
• Create Design documents, technical specifications incorporating input and direction from Solutions Architects

• Work with Architects to define flow and structure of data, consumed from APIs and external data sources.
• Review design, code of more junior developers to ensure quality outcomes
• Mentor and provide knowledge shares for more junior developers, to upskill team capabilities
• Assist support teams in understanding the modules created and document support procedures where necessary.
• Knowledge and experience with various development methodologies, such as Agile/Lean, Scrum, Incremental, Rapid Application Development, Waterfall, etc.
• Articulate and effective communicator, able to influence others through sound judgment and good sense, using both technical and business user friendly language.
• Excellent technical writing skills
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills.
• Experience ensuring application security and quality through the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) and leveraging static analysis tools such as, SonarQube/Checkmarx/Appspider/CAST AIP

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions and affluent families and individuals globally. With over 130 years of financial experience and nearly 20,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company that is committed to strengthening the communities we serve!

We recognize the value of inclusion and diversity in culture, in thought, and in experience, which is why we are honored to receive the following awards in 2021:

• Gender Equality Index Member, Bloomberg
• Top Financial & Banking Company, Black EOE Journal, Hispanic Network Magazine, Professional WOMAN'S Magazine

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of America's best banks and most sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today.

Experience/ Skills

Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in IT industry

Required Skills:

• Understands and experience with majority of application development & technology stack:
  • DevOps and Continuous Integration - Atlassian Bamboo, Maven or Gradle or similar tools; Rest API Development
  • Spring Framework, including Spring Security
  • Spring Integration
  • Spring Boot/Cloud
  • Google Analytics
  • Quartz, Spring Batch
  • Messaging: Kafka, Solace, MQ
  • PL/SQL, Redis, NoSQL - Marklogic, SOLR, etc.
  • REACT, Angular, JQuery
  • Java, J2SE, Java Serve Pages, XML/XSLT, JSON
  • JSON, AJAX, JDBC, JPA/ORM framework
  • Kubernetes
  • API gateway/ZUUL
• Understands cloud architectures as well 12 factor application development
• Experience working with the React framework, Redux and supporting middleware
• Experience designing highly scalable, highly available, and highly performant applications
• Experience defining design standards and best practices
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Preferred/ Recommended Skills:

• Understanding of BaNCS or IM Actions platforms.
• Understanding of ISO 20022 SWIFT message processing.
• Knowledge of Corporate Actions, Income and/or Tax processing.