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 WM Data Platform is going through an extensive Data Modernization moving from On-prem infrastructure to Cloud Technologies for both Self-Serve Analytics and operational runtime needs. The shared data platform needs to be equipped with self-service capabilities and automated infrastructure operations to enhance data engineer experience and organizational efficiency.
We're seeking a Sr Manager for the Platform Engineering Team, that continues to build and own reusable frameworks and patterns for secondary encryption, test data mgmt/ refresh/ automation, data ingestion patterns, IaaC scripts etc. The end goal is to create a data platform as a product for internal data engineers, who can use the capabilities provided to create Data Products for consumption by the other applications/ teams/ data scientists.
Your daily work will involve:
- Partnering with lead of data engineering, solution architects and engineers to understand gaps in the data platform and looking for automation opportunities
- Ensuring there are robust patterns and frameworks established for data ingestion, consumption
- Providing engineering leadership and oversight to the On prem Oracle DBAs, Cloud Engineers and DevOps engineers to ensure
- The data platform is scalable for large amounts of data ingestion and processing without service degradation
- Processes are built for monitoring and optimizing performance
- Implement Chaos Engineering practices and measures that allow the end-to-end infrastructure to function as expected, even if individual components fail
- Test Data Management and Refresh patterns are in place and established for on demand and scheduled refreshes
- Data masking is in place in all non-production environments using enterprise tools and partnering with other enterprise teams / groups
- Team maintains robust data and devOps pipelines build and engineered in partnership with the data engineering squads/ teams
- Partnering with other peers on actively providing input and helping execute on the data modernization efforts
- Engaging in high level break/fix support during disaster recovery scenarios and assists with Production issues when higher level analysis is required.
- Woking closely with architects and other enterprise stakeholders to ensure solution alignment with best enterprise practices.
- You will also be responsible for:
- Performance management of the staff and maximizing the effectiveness by building strong team/technical competencies.
- Recruiting, developing and mentoring high performing and diverse teams across various workgroups. Promote teamwork in problem resolution. Foster an environment of open discussion,
- Ensuring adherence to organizational policies, guidelines and processes
You must have:
- Demonstrated leadership and cross functional collaboration experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong organizational and facilitation skills
- Ability to work under pressure and to prioritize...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
