Capital Markets Development Lead 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.

Major Duties :

1. Provides comprehensive consultation to business unit and IT
management and staff at the highest technical level on all phases
of the project development cycle.
2. Acts as the principal designer for major systems and their subsystems
utilizing a thorough understanding of available technology, tools and
existing designs.
3. Provides leadership and guidance to staff, fostering an environment
that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and
communication.
4. Consults with business unit partners to determine the most effective
computer utilization to solve business problems or address business
needs.
5. Directs systems projects, including project planning, management
status reporting, systems specifications and implementation.
6. Reviews, negotiates, and maintains vendor contracts and makes
recommendations for purchasing outside services.
7. Communicates with various business areas and outside vendors,
consultants, and clients regarding automation needs.
8. Ensures compliance with all audit requirements including change
control procedures and data security.

Knowledge :

Requires an in-depth knowledge of the system development life cycle, the client area's functions and systems, and applications program development technological alternatives, usually obtained by related work experience or Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and at least eight, typically ten or more years of solid, diverse work experience in IT with a minimum of six years experience in systems analysis and application program development, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Also, requires excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment and management skills, and the ability to work effectively with client and IT management and staff.

Experience :

10 years or more experience with project feasibility, definition requirements, design and/or project leadership.
Experience with various technical programming languages, and phase report studies is required.
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Major Duties
• Liaise with fellow developers
• Designing and implementing microservices which use the spring boot framework.
• Working in compliance with the full Software Development Life Cycle.
• Connecting microservices to interact with databases.
• Understanding of how streaming technologies work such as Kafka.
• Build Azure/AWS pipelines
• Identifying and finding solutions to bugs.
• Ensure you've written adequate test cases to verify design requirements are being met.
• Create well written documentation for the individual microservices.

Knowledge/Skills
• JAVA SDK8 or newer
• Microservices based on Springboot
• Development experience with React
• Azure or AWS Services their integration & Development
• Oracle or similar Database
• Agile Methodology
• Knowledge of full software development lifecycle
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• A positive goal orientated attitude with a focus on delivery

Preferred/ Recommended:
• Familiarity with financial market/instrument/Trade lifecycle
• Ability to write SQL.

Experience
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Overall 10+ Years of Industry experience in IT.
• Experience in agile development methodology.
• Proven ability to collaborate with high-performing teams and individuals throughout the firm to accomplish common goals.

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.