Director of Software Engineering

18 hours ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Northern Trust Full time
About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a leading global financial institution with a rich history dating back to 1889. As a Fortune 500 company, we have established ourselves as a trusted partner for individuals, families, and institutions seeking innovative financial solutions.

Our commitment to service, expertise, and integrity has enabled us to maintain a strong reputation in the industry. With over 130 years of experience and a global presence, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using cutting-edge technology and exceptional service.

Role Overview

The Director of Software Engineering will be responsible for ensuring the consistency and quality of software engineering across all initiatives. This role will lead software engineering teams and collaborate with leaders from other teams to make engineering decisions, resolve issues, and align the product roadmap with business outcomes.

The successful candidate will have experience leading teams in the development and deployment of solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP. They will also possess hands-on experience in agile development, business analysis, software engineering, database design, enterprise software architecture, technology leadership, and software quality assurance.

Key Responsibilities
  • 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.
Requirements
  • Proven experience leading teams in the development and deployment of solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • Hands-on experience in 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 operations, back office systems, and/or business process re-engineering, workflow automation, robotics process automation, document life-cycle management.
  • Directs systems projects, including project planning, management status reporting, systems specifications, and implementation.
  • Ensures compliance with all audit requirements, including change control procedures and data security.
  • Knowledge of programming languages, various business applications, the computer industry, and various design and programming techniques is required to direct systems projects and resolve business problems with effective computer utilization.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills are needed for systems guidance.
Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability are assets that enable 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.

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.

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