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.

Cloud Data Platform Engineer

Position Overview

The Principal - Cloud Data Platform Engineer is responsible for designing building and maintaining scalable secure and high-performance cloud-based data platforms that support analytics machine learning and enterprise data needs. This role ensures that data solutions are optimized for performance cost and reliability while meeting governance compliance and business requirements. The engineer collaborates closely with data scientists analysts architects and business stakeholders to deliver modern data capabilities on cloud platforms. Should have deep technical expertise strong design judgment and the ability to influence without authority.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Development

• Design implement and maintain cloud-native data platforms (e.g. AWS Azure).
• Develop and optimize data pipelines for ingestion transformation and processing of structured semi-structured and unstructured data.
• Build reusable frameworks and automation for data workflows monitoring and scaling.
• Ensure data storage and compute solutions are optimized for performance security and cost efficiency.
• Integrate cloud data services with enterprise applications APIs and third-party tools.

Data Management & Governance

• Implement data quality lineage and cataloging solutions across the data platform.
• Enforce governance security and compliance standards (e.g. GDPR HIPAA SOC2).
• Work with architects and security teams to implement role-based access encryption and audit controls.
• Support metadata management data discoverability and enterprise-wide data democratization.

Operations & Reliability

• Manage the operational health of the cloud data platform including monitoring alerting and troubleshooting.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines for data services and platform components.
• Implement disaster recovery backup and failover strategies.
• Continuously optimize platform performance cost and scalability.

Collaboration & Innovation

• Partner with data scientists BI teams and application developers to enable advanced analytics and AI/ML workloads.
• Evaluate emerging cloud data services and recommend adoption based on enterprise needs.
• Provide technical expertise in designing cloud-based data architectures and solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best practices in cloud engineering and data development.

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Data Engineering or related field (Masters preferred).
• 15 years of total work experience in technology infrastructure.
• 10 years of experience in data engineering cloud engineering or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS or Azure).
• Strong experience with big data and data processing frameworks (e.g. Spark Databricks Flink).
• Proven expertise in building data pipelines with tools like Apache Airflow dbt Kafka or similar.

Skills & Competencies:

• In-depth knowledge and experience with Snowflake Databricks or similar cloud data platforms.
• Extensive knowledge and real hands-on experience of AI/ML data pipelines and feature engineering.
• Exposure to regulated environments (financial services healthcare etc.).
• Proficiency in SQL and one or more programming languages (Python Java or Scala).
• Deep understanding of cloud-native data services (e.g. AWS Redshift Glue S3 Athena; Azure Synapse Data Factory; GCP BigQuery Dataflow).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform CloudFormation Pulumi).
• Knowledge of FinOps principles for cost-efficient data platform design.
• Strong problem-solving communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Excellent communication mentorship and ability to influence cross-functional teams.

Key Success Metrics

• Uptime performance and reliability of the cloud data platform.
• Data availability quality and accessibility for business and analytics use cases.
• Efficiency and scalability of data pipelines and processing.
• Cost optimization and resource utilization of cloud data services.
• Adoption and satisfaction of data platform services by business and analytics teams

Success Indicators

• Stable scalable and secure data platforms running in production.
• Reduced data incidents and faster rootcause resolution.
• Improved developer productivity through reusable frameworks and standards.
• Strong technical mentorship and uplift of data engineering capabilities.
• Trusted technical advisor to architecture security and business leadership.

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.