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.
NT Asset Management technology team is seeking an experienced and dynamic technology leader to lead the delivery of technology solutions for our Investment Management Research platform.
As a core member of the Investment Management Technology Practice, you will lead the team on various initiatives to deliver technology solutions that enables our Investment Management research across asset classes.
As a senior leader, you will work across technology and business teams maximizing performance levels, agility and effectiveness through high degree of decision making, communication, empathetic leadership, talent management and mentoring.
You will bring technical skills and solutioning experience including how of build vs buy 3rd party solutions in Investment Research domain.
Major Responsibilities
- Focused on delivering exceptional solutions and solving business challenges across the Investment Management Research domain. The candidate will also focus on improving communications and overall engagement, strong and long term relationships with business partners on a day-to-day basis and building long-term relationships between business partners and technology stakeholders that foster trust and transparency.
- Collaborate with business product owners and quantitative teams to understand help drive technology solutions to meet research needs across asset classes and Products like Equities, FI, Multi Assets, Alternative and ESG etc.
- Deeply understand the goals and business context of ongoing quant research 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.
- Aligns technology strategy with business-based decisions and fosters consensus at all levels of the organization to ensure the achievement of business objectives.
- Collaborate with Architecture and Data teams to create roadmaps that enable business growth and the future state of the business.
- Plan, evaluate and hire great talent. Set the performance standards and provide mentoring and training to develop and grow direct reports.
- Ensures compliance with all audit, security and risk management requirements.
- Invests significant efforts to keep self-updated with fintech emerging products/technology capabilities to integrate as off the shelf products to find optimum solutions and be able to advise build vs buy options.
- Should be able to work in a fluid and dynamic environment, and understand how to effectively...
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