Lead Software Engineer

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.

DevOps within Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) Investments Technology is responsible for designing implementing and optimizing scalable DevOps and cloud engineering practices supporting portfolio management trading and analytics platforms.

This role partners closely with engineering teams product owners and investment stakeholders to deliver reliable secure and high-performance systems through modern CI/CD cloud infrastructure and automation frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to enable fast reliable software delivery
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform ARM templates Bicep)
• Build and manage cloud-native environments (Azure) for application hosting data processing and services
• Establish DevOps best practices for build deploy release and version control workflows

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Deploy and manage applications across Azure services (App Services AKS Functions Azure DevOps Key Vault Storage)
• Optimize system scalability performance and cost efficiency
• Implement cloud security practices including identity/access management secrets management and compliance controls

• Implement observability frameworks using tools like Azure Monitor Application Insights logging & alerting systems
• Ensure high availability resiliency and disaster recovery for critical investment platforms
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of production incidents

• Drive automation across:
  • Build/test/deploy pipelines Environment provisioning Testing frameworks (unit integration performance)
• Reduce manual effort and improve time-to-market through CI/CD optimization
• Promote use of AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot) to improve developer productivity

Collaboration & Delivery

• Partner with developers QA and product teams to embed DevOps in Agile delivery processes
• Support sprint planning release planning and continuous delivery pipelines
• Act as a bridge between engineering and operations ensuring alignment on delivery and production readiness

Leadership & Mentorship

• Provide technical guidance to engineers on DevOps practices and cloud architecture
• Champion DevOps culture across teams (automation ownership reliability)
• Influence architecture decisions for scalable cloud-first systems

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in DevOps cloud engineering or platform engineering
• Strong experience with:
  • Azure Cloud (DevOps App Services Functions Storage networking)
  • CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / ARM / Bicep)
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language:
  • Python Bash PowerShell or C#
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes preferred)
• Strong understanding of SDLC Agile practices and release management

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.