Senior Lead Full Stack Developer

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.

Role Overview

The Senior Lead Full Stack Developer will provide handson technical guidance owning the design build and operational stability of critical services and integrations. This role is accountable for delivering highquality scalable and resilient solutions while setting engineering standards and guiding development teams.

The role combines deep technical execution with leadership responsibilities acting as the primary technical authority for Javabased services eventdriven processing and cloudnative deployments on Azure.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Delivery & Ownership

• Lead the design and development of full stack services using event driven architecture.
• Own endtoend delivery of features and technical capabilities from design through production support.
• Ensure services are reliable observable and operationally ready prior to release.

Backend & Integration Development

• Design and implement backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build and maintain REST APIs that integrate with vended application and upstream and downstream systems.
• Design and operate eventdriven workflows using Kafka including producers consumers retries and error handling.

Data & Persistence

• Design and manage data models and access patterns using Azure Cosmos DB.
• Ensure data consistency performance and scalability aligned integration patterns.
• Partner with data and platform teams on schema evolution and data governance requirements.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Deploy and operate services on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Contribute to containerization Helm charts and CI CD pipelines.
• Partner with platform teams to ensure best practices around scaling resiliency and cost efficiency.

Operational Excellence & Stability

• Act as a senior escalation point for production issues.
• Lead root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes for systemic issues.
• Ensure monitoring alerting and logging are implemented and tuned for actionable insights.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Provide technical direction and codelevel guidance to engineers within the workstream.
• Set expectations for code quality testing and engineering discipline.
• Mentor senior and midlevel developers promoting ownership and continuous improvement.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner closely with product owners architects and upstream and downstream teams.
• Communicate technical risks tradeoffs and delivery impacts clearly to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Contribute to planning dependency management and delivery commitments.

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills (Mandatory)

• Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot.
• Handson experience with Kafka in production environments.
• Strong REST API design and implementation experience.
• Experience with Azure Cosmos DB including performance and scalability considerations.
• Experience deploying and operating services on Azure AKS.

Additional Qualifications

• 12 plus years of software development experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience building and supporting distributed cloudnative systems.
• Working knowledge on data engineering and modern data platform such as Snowflake Databricks.
• Strong understanding of production support observability and operational readiness.
• Experience working in regulated or highavailability environments preferred.
• Excellent problemsolving communication and leadership 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.