Specialist, Data Science

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.

Key Responsibilities

AI System & Agentic Workflows

• Design build and optimize agentic AI systems using modern agent frameworks (e.g. LangGraph AutoGen Haystack Agents ReAct-style agents).
• Implement multi-agent collaboration patterns task orchestration memory architectures tool integrations and reasoning-enhancing strategies.
• Develop secure robust and scalable toolcalling and function-execution flows for agents operating in dynamic environments.

RAG Architecture & LLM Applications

• Architect and deploy RAG pipelines including:
  • Document ingestion text splitting metadata extraction
  • Vector database integration (e.g. Postgress)
  • Query transformation retrieval optimization re-ranking and grounding
• Evaluate and optimize RAG components for latency accuracy hallucination reduction and domain specificity.
• Integrate RAG workflows with LLMs from OpenAI Azure OpenAI Anthropic or open-source models.

Data Science & Machine Learning

• Build and maintain endtoend ML pipelines including feature engineering model training hyperparameter tuning and deployment.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) statistical modeling and experiment design.
• Implement MLOps practices for versioning monitoring and model governance.

Software Engineering & Deployment

• Build production-grade APIs and microservices for AI systems.
• Work with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) to deploy scalable and cost-efficient AI infrastructure.
• Establish CI/CD workflows for model deployment evaluations and automated testing.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Expertise

• 78 years of industry experience in AI/ML engineering data science or fullstack AI solution architecture.
• Strong proficiency in Python including libraries such as PyTorch TensorFlow LangChain/LangGraph LlamaIndex Hugging Face and Scikit-learn.
• Deep understanding of LLMs embeddings vector search and RAG best practices.
• Experience with agentic AI architectures tool-calling and autonomous agent design.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based AI services (Azure AI AWS SageMaker GCP Vertex AI).
• Strong data engineering fundamentals (Spark SQL ETL pipelines).
• Experience deploying AI systems in production using containers (Docker) Kubernetes or serverless architectures.

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation capabilities.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product Engineering Data DevOps).
• Ownership mindset with strong focus on delivering high-quality solutions.

Preferred (Nice-to-Have) Skills

• Experience with evaluation frameworks (e.g. RAGAS LangSmith DeepEval).
• Familiarity with knowledge graph augmentation for enterprise RAG.
• Exposure to multi-modal AI systems (vision speech structured data).
• Understanding of data privacy compliance and AI safety practices.

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 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 .

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.

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.