at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
