Senior Director Software Development

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.

Looking For:

Seasoned, multi-disciplinary technology leader with deep alternative investments domain knowledge and broad functional expertise.

• Partner with business stakeholders to design end-to-end platforms, defining components and interactions that support the target operating model.
• Provide strategic direction across technology teams, aligning execution with enterprise goals and influencing senior leadership on outcomes.
• Translate business strategy into technology outcomes by surfacing cross-functional concerns, synthesizing inputs, and building consensus on solutions.
• Build, develop, and organize teams to drive program-level initiatives.
• Manage multiple units or functions through managers and technical leads, overseeing project planning, status reporting, specifications, and implementation for major software solutions.
• Mentor and develop less-senior leaders through coaching and structured growth opportunities.
• Deliver value iteratively and with a sense of urgency.
• Lead capability technology delivery across multiple teams of developers, quality assurance, support and change management technology experts.
• Set performance standards; run performance management; identify training and development needs; and build management capability for advanced leadership roles.
• Manage vendor relationships to ensure outcomes (quality, performance, and scalability) meet business demands.
• Define and govern technical architectures (security, observability, scalability, reliability, and recovery) and ensure compliance.
• Ensure compliance with audit requirements, including change control procedures and data security.
• Improve technology team effectiveness and productivity, and identify opportunities to help business teams do the same.

• Demonstrate in-depth functional industry knowledge of alternative investment financial services.
• Demonstrate 10+ years of success designing and building enterprise-level applications, including complex data architectures, in a highly regulated environment (e.g., financial services).
• Demonstrate 10+ years of progressive responsibility leading technical teams (e.g., developers, data engineers, business analysts, quality assurance, and production support).
• Demonstrate understanding of data shape and context design to enable efficient and effective AI/LLM usage.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of modern data storage architectures and data modeling.
• Demonstrate knowledge of microservices architecture, cloud-native development, CI/CD, and automated builds.
• Demonstrate understanding of modern security architectures, including implementing secure applications and protecting PII and HSI in public cloud environments.
• Demonstrate understanding of financial markets and financial instrument types.
• Demonstrate experience with Agile project methodology and collaboration.
• Show strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Communicate effectively in writing and verbally, including with senior executive management.
• Adapt quickly and effectively to change.

B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline required; M.S. preferred.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa) 

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

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 [email protected].

 
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.