Senior Lead Full Stack Engineer at Northern Trust in Chicago, Illinois

Job Description:

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 world's 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 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Northern Trust is currently looking for a full-stack engineer - Sr. Lead to join our growing Portfolio Accounting and Data Services team. This is a hands-on role in an enterprise-wide data and digital transformation initiative and deliver excellent user experience for delivering Accounting services to Northern's Clients.

A successful candidate will be customer-centric with a passion for leveraging modern cloud architectures and technology to make significant business impacts across organizational boundaries. The candidate specializes in full stack development and implementing endto-end components of custom applications. S/He Involves designing and developing the UI, business logic, data & integration layer along with testing and maintenance of these layers -- creating, querying & manipulating databases, APIs and integration, Front-end code (HTML/CSS, bootstrap, React JS) and web stack back-end technologies (Java, Springboot and Azure cloud etc.).

This full-stack lead will bring in the experience of SaaS/cloud solutions (Azure)/web development and best practices in building, maintaining, and enhancing state of the art client-facing applications in a hybrid-cloud environment.

Responsibilities:

Work with Data Engineers and Software Engineers to design and deliver a Cloud-based application as the layer of Northern Trust's Accounting platform.

Manage production deployments of the full-stack application on Azure environments and help system troubleshooting and defect triage in production.

Provide technical support and assistance in troubleshooting, configuring, and performance tuning packaged solutions and tools, such as Azure Kubernetes Services, AirFlow and etc.

Partner with Agile Scrum Master to keep the team organized, on track, and focused on priorities.

Document business requirements and application architecture and developmental best practices related to system design.

Evaluate, prototype, and recommend emerging Cloud technologies and platforms from open source or vendors.

Independently conduct POC projects.

Be a hands-on practical leader to ensure both functional and non-functional requirements (e.g., security, performance, availability and DR/fail-over, scalability, compliance etc.) are properly articulated, designed, implemented, and well documented in the entire software development life cycle.

Communicate complex technical topics to non-technical business and senior executives and assist with scoping and architecting cloud data solutions.

Required

10+ years development experience using Java, Springboot, SQL and NoSQL databases

Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and development patterns and best practices

3+ years of experience designing and building cloud-native applications, microservices preferably using Azure or AWS

Strong experience deploying and hosting applications in containers and Kubernetes

Experience in Single Page Applications using React

Strong Experience in Software Delivery following Agile practices and Azure DevOps

Strong understanding of REST APIs and how to use them in practice.

Strong Experience with continuous integration and collaboration tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, Bitbucket, GitHub and Confluence.

Strong Experience with unit testing and test automation tools and frameworks like JUnit, Jasmine, Jest etc.

Experience with Azure, AKS a plus

Preferred Specific Skills:

Experience with DevOps or DevSecOps.

Knowledge of IaC and automation such as Terraform preferred.

Knowledge of the financial services industry, Portfolio Accounting preferred

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.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's 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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com .

We hope you're 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.