Software Engineering Director

6 days ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Northern Trust Full time

About Northern Trust

A Fortune 500 company, Northern Trust is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution with a rich history dating back to 1889.

We take pride in providing innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity.

Key Responsibilities

This role is accountable for the consistency in quality, overall performance, engineering soundness, security, execution of sprints, support, and maintenance of all software engineering for the account open initiative.

You will participate in scrum ceremonies, project design discussions, business discussions, code reviews, and hands-on creation or modification of software.

This leadership role will directly lead software engineering teams and collaborate with leaders from other teams to make engineering decisions, work through issues, and align the product roadmap to our business outcomes.

Requirements

  • Foster the development and maintenance of common engineering approaches consistent with organizational standards and industry best practices.
  • Establish and maintain a balanced iteration cadence with a professional level of quality across all sprints.
  • Understand cloud product development, managed cloud services, and provide technical and strategic feedback on improvement to the cloud product strategy total cost of ownership.
  • Use 'Voice of the Customer' contributions from Product and business teams to continually improve solution design quality.
  • Work with product owners to apply the overall business strategy and priority to the software engineering backlog, working with business partners and software engineering team leaders to assist in sprint planning.
  • Continually improve cloud deployment practices to enable shorter release cycles.
  • Work side-by-side with the Architecture and Engineering team to keep the software engineering roadmap aligned to company goals.
  • Partner with Product and engineering leadership to establish, manage, and foster the improvement of processes such as agile practices, deployment planning, change management, on-call rotations, etc.
  • Maintain the integrity and efficiency of software engineering processes.
  • Ensure laws, company policies, practices, and procedures are followed by team members.

Skills and Experience

Proven experience leading teams in the development and deployment of solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Hands-on experience in a multitude of domains including agile development, business analysis, software engineering, database design, enterprise software architecture, technology leadership, and software quality assurance.

Extensive and relevant experience prioritizing the work of others, challenging and resolving interruptions to prioritized work, resolving interpersonal conflict, and motivating and organizing teams.

Demonstrated solid understanding of scalable technology architectures.

Hands-on technical experience solving business problems in, but not limited to, one or more of the following business areas: operations, back-office systems, and/or business process re-engineering, workflow automation, robotics process automation, document life-cycle management.

About Northern Trust

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.

Join a workplace with a greater purpose and build your career with us.

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