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 worlds 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 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Overview

The SRE Community of Practice (CoP) Senior Implementation Lead is responsible for driving the adoption standardization and maturity of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices across the organization. This role serves as a key enabler in scaling SRE principles fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide reliability observability and automation goals.

Key Responsibilities

SRE Practice Implementation & Governance

• Lead the strategic implementation of SRE frameworks aligning with global best practices and business objectives.
• Develop and enforce SRE standards processes and governance models to drive operational resilience.
• Define and enable SREs to track key reliability metrics (SLOs SLIs error budgets) across critical applications and infrastructure.

Community Building & Knowledge Sharing

• Establish and nurture a strong SRE Community of Practice promoting knowledge exchange and shared learning.
• Organize technical forums workshops and training programs to uplift SRE capabilities across engineering teams.
• Act as a mentor and advisor to SRE teams enabling continuous improvement in site reliability practices.

Automation & Tooling Enablement

• Drive the adoption of automation-first approaches for incident response capacity planning and release engineering.
• Partner with platform engineering teams to standardize observability chaos engineering and self-healing mechanisms.
• Identify and implement industry-leading SRE tools and technologies to enhance system resilience.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Engagement

• Work closely with engineering operations risk and compliance teams to embed SRE principles into SDLC and ITSM processes.
• Serve as a bridge between leadership and technical teams translating strategic objectives into actionable SRE initiatives.
• Advocate for a culture of reliability blameless postmortems and continuous learning across the enterprise.
• Empower a distributed community of practitioners to work across organizational partitions and contribute to enabler services and systems

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Evaluate emerging trends in SRE DevOps and AI-driven reliability engineering to drive innovation.
• Establish a feedback loop to measure the impact of SRE initiatives and continuously refine strategies.
• Promote resilience engineering techniques to proactively identify and mitigate failure points.

Qualifications & Experience

• 10 years of experience in SRE DevOps platform engineering or software reliability engineering roles.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles cloud-native architectures modern hybrid architectures and observability practices.
• Hands-on experience with automation CI/CD pipelines monitoring tools (Dynatrace Prometheus Splunk Azure Monitor) and incident management frameworks.
• Proven ability to build and lead communities of practice within large-scale enterprises.
• Excellent communication leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension) health and welfare benefits (medical dental vision spending accounts and disability) paid time off parental and caregiver leave life & accident insurance and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

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.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us andapply 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 .

We hope youre 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.