Lead SW Eng

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.

Major Duties

• Consults with Business Unit and IT management and staff on all phases of the project development cycle.
• Helps to design major systems and their subsystems utilizing a solid understanding of available technology, tools and existing designs.
• Design and develop high-performance programming language components used by trading applications.
• Provide technical expertise to support and enhance core brokerage application.
• Operates independently; has in-depth knowledge of business unit / function
• As subject area expert, provides comprehensive, in-depth consulting and leadership to team and partners at a high technical level
• Carries out activities that are large in scope, cross-functional and technically difficult
• Role is balanced between high level operational execution and development, and execution of strategic direction of business function activities.
• Ensure code meets standards and tested appropriately in the platform
• Be part of platform transformation journey and help in reengineering and improve the current set of applications

Knowledge/Skills

• 8-12 Years of experience working in large data warehousing projects, implementing data warehouses, data marts, ETL, BI solutions etc.
• Strong understanding of dimensional design techniques, star and snowflake schemas, building facts, dimensions, implementing SCD, various types of facts and dimensions etc.
• Familiarity with modern data architectures, data vault 2.0 , data lake, data fabric, data mesh, medallion architecture etc.
• Strong experience in data engineering, ETL/ELT, Informatica, DataStage, DBT or equivalent ETL tools
• Strong experience with RDBMS, writing complex SQL and SQL Optimization
• Working Experience in Snowflake or Databricks will be preferred
• Proficiency in Python, with experience using libraries like Scikit-learn, Pandas, and NumPy.
• Experience with scheduling and batch orchestration tools like Control-M
• Basic understanding of NLP, time-series analysis, machine learning and statistical models
• Data visualization skills for ad-hoc and exploratory analysis, Power BI or Tableau
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience with financial markets data and concepts.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Nice to have experience in prompt engineering and experimentation with LLM-based features.

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.