Senior Associate, Security Development & Automation

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management asset servicing asset management and banking services Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the worlds most successful individuals families corporations and institutions.

Since 1889 we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service Expertise and Integrity. Together they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees whom we call partners and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The Senior Associate Security Development & Automation is a hands-on technical contributor who helps protect Northern Trust by engineering automation-first security capabilities. This role supports the design and delivery of AI-enabled workflows API integrations playbooks scripts and platform services that strengthen cyber defense reduce manual operational burden and make security outcomes more consistent measurable and repeatable. The Senior Associate works with security engineering operations infrastructure application risk audit and technology teams to understand high-value security workflows translate them into automation patterns and deliver solutions that improve control execution threat response vulnerability management evidence collection and operational resilience.

What Youll Do

Protect Northern Trust Through Security Driven Development and Automation

Build development and automation capabilities that help protect Northern Trusts technology environment reduce cyber risk and improve the consistency of security execution.

Engineer AI agent-based workflows that support security triage enrichment correlation investigation support evidence collection control validation and remediation orchestration.

Create secure API integrations across security platforms ITSM CMDB vulnerability management cloud network identity data and observability tools to connect signals decisions and actions.

Develop reliable workflow automation assets that remove friction from security operations and make high-value controls easier to operate at scale.

Partner with security architecture platform engineering cloud security IAM threat and governance teams to apply reusable automation standards secure engineering patterns guardrails and operational handoffs.

Key Deliverables

Develop and support security development and automation capabilities that help Northern Trust protect critical services and data including:

Security workflow automation that accelerates discovery response remediation and control validation

API integrations and reusable playbooks that connect security platforms enterprise data sources and operational systems of record

AI-enabled assistants and agents that improve security decision support while respecting enterprise controls approvals and data protection requirements

Design and Build LLM-based vulnerability scanning and remediation solutions.

Integrate LLM capabilities responsibly using enterprise AI platforms such as AI Foundry approved model providers and vendor AI harnesses to enhancenot replacesecurity judgment and control execution.

Develop prompt retrieval orchestration testing and evaluation patterns that make AI-enabled workflows reliable observable secure and aligned to enterprise policy.

Engineer automation with strong authentication authorization secrets handling logging exception handling change control and auditability so solutions can be trusted in production security workflows.

Document architecture runbooks decision logic reusable patterns and operational handoffs so capabilities can be supported governed and improved over time.

Contribute to platform roadmaps vendor integrations and automation priorities by providing practical engineering input tied to risk reduction control effectiveness resiliency stability and reuse.

What Youll Bring

5 years of experience in cybersecurity software engineering security automation cloud engineering platform engineering infrastructure automation or related technology disciplines.

Strong understanding of how development and automation can be used to protect enterprise environments improve control execution and reduce operational risk.

Demonstrated ability to operate as a senior technical contributor: supporting solution design contributing to architecture discussions delivering complex technical work and helping drive adoption through collaboration and practical execution.

Hands-on development skills in Python including API consumption data transformation automation frameworks error handling testing and operational supportability.

Experience integrating security ITSM cloud identity observability or data platforms through REST APIs webhooks event-driven patterns workflow tools or orchestration platforms.

Working knowledge of LLM-enabled solution patterns AI agent workflows retrieval-augmented generation prompt engineering model evaluation AI guardrails and secure use of enterprise AI platforms.

Ability to deliver in a regulated environment with strong attention to audit-ready evidence access controls change management testability resiliency and production support.

Nice to Have

Prior experience in financial services banking asset servicing wealth management or another highly regulated industry.

Experience with ServiceNow workflows Vulnerability Response SecOps CMDB ITSM integrations or similar enterprise workflow platforms.

Experience with Azure AI Foundry Azure Functions Logic Apps GitHub Actions Terraform CI/CD pipelines or cloud-native automation patterns.

Experience building automation for vulnerability management exposure management threat response identity security network security or cloud security operations.

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.

Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trusts history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please email our HR Service Center at or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office established in 2016 is now home to over 3000 employees. The office handles various functions including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to 2024 they volunteered more than 10000 hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.