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.
The 'Director - Application Development' role is a key position within Northern Trust's Shared Services Application group with responsibility for managing large scale strategic programs. Emphasis will be placed on candidate's ability to manage operations, mature the governance model, achieving tactical & strategic priorities and enforcing effective risk management across multiple programs. The successful individual will build and maintain vital relationships with all facets of Business and Technology organizations.
Principal Responsibilities:
Leadership and Management
- Provide strategic thinking, thought leadership, and guidance on identifying key risks and assessing the design and operating effectiveness of controls supporting applications and large programs.
- Plan, oversee and direct the activities of Technology division to achieve the organization objectives, and for timely reporting on test, control, audit and regulatory matters to executive management.
- Show integrity and a risk minded approach to challenges and a sustained drive to ensure completion of objectives.
- Establish strong working relationships and communications with key stakeholders globally.
Operational:
- Ensure that the Technology organization is enabled to meet their objectives, including internal and external requirements. Manage global staff to ensure day-to-day technology operations are effective.
- Develop and review periodic metrics and ensure key messages are communicated to stakeholders across all technology and business areas.
- Show the ability to communicate complex problems into a simplified way, that would then support a discussion with senior management/stakeholders.
- Conduct and/or manage special projects and ad hoc requests to support the senior leadership team.
- Work closely with the business continuity management and risk partners to ensure a unified approach to resiliency across the organization.
Requirements:
Skills:
- 15+ years experience in Application development domain.
- 5+ years of experience managing multiple Technology Application development teams, preferably in a Director role.
- Solid understanding of financial services technology landscape, preferably in Corporate Action & Income processing domain.
- Extensive experience in planning and execution of large scale Technology Development Programs.
- Experience interfacing at executive level to represent and support technology initiatives/goals.
- Experience managing multiple vendor resources/contracts in support of program objectives.
- Experience managing applications ranging from legacy Mainframe, vended applications & Cloud based technologies (Azure, PCF).
Competencies:
- Highly motivated, self-starter who deals well with ambiguity and can drive execution across an organization.
- Ability to develop a strategic plan and drive through strategic & tactical deliverables.
- Strong critical thinking,...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
