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.

Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) is seeking a hands-on Senior Lead Data Engineer to design build and operate modern data and AI-driven solutions. This is a deeply technical role focused on building scalable data platforms and applying Agentic AI to solve real-world data engineering quality and analytics challenges.

Role Overview

This role sits within NTAMs Data & AI engineering organization and partners closely with investment operations and technology stakeholders. The successful candidate will work hands-on across the full data lifecycledata ingestion modeling validation analytics and AI augmentationusing Snowflake as the core data platform.

Key Responsibilities

Design build and maintain scalable data pipelines data models and analytics solutions on Snowflake.

Lead hands-on development of Agentic AI solutions within the data platform focused on automation and augmentation of data engineering and analytics workflows.

Implement intelligent data quality checks QA automation reconciliation and validation frameworks.

Build automated impact analysis capabilities to assess downstream effects of changes to data pipelines schemas and business logic.

Translate business and operational data problems into well-defined agent-based architectures with clear decision boundaries and human-in-the-loop controls.

Integrate AI agents with enterprise data services including Snowflake APIs metadata and lineage services and analytics layers.

Partner with business stakeholders to identify high-value AI and data use cases and deliver production-ready solutions.

Provide technical leadership code reviews and architectural guidance to engineering teams.

Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for data security privacy auditability and responsible AI.

Continuously evaluate emerging data and Agentic AI technologies for practical enterprise adoption.

Agentic AI NTAM Data Platform Context

The role applies Agentic AI specifically within NTAMs enterprise data platform with Snowflake at the core. Agentic AI solutions are expected to augment and automate data engineering and analytics workflows rather than operate as standalone AI systems.

Hands-on responsibilities include building intelligent agents that reason over data metadata and business rules to proactively detect data quality issues perform QA validation assess downstream impact of changes and surface actionable insights for engineering and business users.

All Agentic AI solutions must be production-grade explainable secure and aligned with NTAMs data governance and compliance standards.

Required Skills & Experience

Expertise designing and building data-driven solutions on Snowflake.

Strong experience in data modeling ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehouse best practices.

Hands-on experience delivering Agentic AI or AI-driven automation in the data domain.

Experience with data quality frameworks and data impact analysis.

Strong understanding of relational and dimensional data modeling.

Experience integrating data platforms with APIs metadata services and analytics tools.

Strong programming and problem-solving skills.

Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration skills.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or a related discipline.

10 years of hands-on experience in data engineering and analytics.

Experience working in investment management or asset management banks preferred.

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.

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