Sr Lead SW Engg

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.

About the Role

The Northern Trust Company seeks a senior Lead, DevSecOps and AI Engineer that will assist in the execution of the strategic vision of Northern Trust Asset Management’s Distribution Technology capabilities. The successful candidate will be strong technical leader and will be responsible in the development of a comprehensive technology platform.

We are looking for a DevSecOps & AI Engineer to join our high-performing team at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, applied AI and application security. This is a hands-on engineering role designed for someone who thrives on solving complex technical problems and shaping secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms.

You’ll work across a broad spectrum of engineering pipelines—from web applications to microservices, infrastructure-as-code, and AI/ML workflows, primarily on Microsoft Azure. This role offers a unique opportunity to embed security and automation into every layer of our digital delivery, within the demanding and highly regulated context of financial services.

Job Description and Key Responsibilities

• Build and secure multi-domain CI/CD pipelines, including
  • Application development (e.g., microservices, UI)
  • Infrastructure provisioning using Terraform
  • Machine Learning and AI deployment workflows on Azure AI
• Design and implement DevSecOps automation, integrating security tools and compliance gates (SAST, DAST, IaC scanning, etc.) into GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Provision and manage Azure cloud environments, including AKS, AI services, and other resources through infrastructure-as-code.
• Collaborate closely with developers, data scientists, platform engineers, and security stakeholders to ensure secure-by-design delivery across all technology layers.
• Monitor and observe systems in production using tools like Azure Application Insights, Dynatrace and proactively resolve issues.
• Contribute to architecture decisions that balance agility, performance, security, and regulatory requirements.

What We’re Looking For

Must-Have Skills

• 10+ years of total experience in software development.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering or Platform Engineering roles
• Proven ability to engineer and scale complex systems in production
• Able to guide and mentor junior developers
• Solid understanding of DevSecOps principles and integration into CI/CD pipelines
• Strong expertise in:
  • Azure cloud services and ecosystem (e.g. AKS, Azure AI, Azure Resource Manager etc.)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform
  • GitHub / GitHub Actions
  • Security tooling: Checkmarx, SonarQube, Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Monitoring and observability (Azure Application Insights, Dynatrace or similar)

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Familiarity with MLOps / securing AI/ML pipelines.
• Awareness of data privacy, risk, and model governance frameworks in AI.
• Experience working in or with highly regulated industries.
• Knowledge of and hands-on experience with GitOps

Soft Skills

• Excellent communicator and team collaborator across domains.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with attention to both system design and implementation details.
• Comfortable in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments typical of finance and banking.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.