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.
Northern Trust Asset Management Technology team is looking for an experienced leader to help drive requirements, analysis and implementation of technology deliverables in partnership with business product owners and quants across Multi Assets Analytics and Research. You will be responsible to lead and solve for complex business, logic, data and technical challenges in areas such as building models and other complex systems in close collaboration with business product owners and quants. You will be responsible for the end to end development cycle - from requirement gathering to the tech delivery of the end product. You are expected to leverage both your technology skills along with statistics financial and mathematics abilities while working with smart, talented people across our business.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business product owners and quantitative teams to understand help drive technology platform and solutions to meet quantitative and analytics needs for Multi Assets and Quant Research business.
- Deeply understand the goals and business context of ongoing muti assets analytics and investment strategies and provide strategic direction to develop the technology roadmap aligned with the business vision.
- Lead development of code libraries and solutions that leverage and appropriately augment existing structures to meet the needs of the research-driven investment and analysis processes, often in the absence of clearly documented specifications.
- Lead and work with developers to identify which interim solutions (e.g., tools, applications, reports, data structures, etc.) have matured sufficiently to transition to a production environment, and produce specifications for such solutions, enabling IT to elevate strategically targeted prototypes to production.
- Identify and evaluate the most appropriate methods, tools, datasets and technology solutions to address requirements.
- Partnering with Product owners and Quants to help implement models to inform the investment decision making process
- Building large scale distributed computing programs to generate insightful analytics and present results in user-friendly visualization
- Implement standards, processes, and tools for numerical library testing and code quality controls
- Review implementation of complex models and algorithms focusing on requirement verification and code quality. Conduct code review with peers and model developers and obtain their feedback.
- Innovate and improve proprietary models and algorithms; design and deliver in terms of high reliability, resiliency and scalability
- Solves unique problems that have a broad impact and delivery of business value
- Leads disciplinary or cross-functional initiatives of notable risk; uses sophisticated analytical thought to identify innovative solutions
- Leverage program management skills to ensure in timely and under budget delivery of tech initiatives/programs.
Tech, business and leadership skills
- Strong domain...
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