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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.

Title

Lead Middleware engineer

MAIN DUTIES

Northern Trust Enterprise Middleware Service team is looking for a senior messaging system engineer to build out, maintain, and troubleshoot the bank's rapidly expanding messaging infrastructure including Kafka, MQ and Solace. You will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Manage all environments (Development, Testing and Production) of Confluent Kafka cluster and Solace appliances
  • Install, configure and provide support for functional and performance testing of new features of modern messaging system.
  • Work with application developers in POCs to design solutions with novel and advanced product features
  • Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability by monitoring and testing application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
  • Design and maintain security, backup, disaster recovery and redundancy strategies
  • Design of expansion of current cluster and integration of existing cluster with cloud
  • Hands on development of automation to maintain and expand current system.
  • Architect the roadmap for messaging systems in the bank
  • Provide 3rd level support and act as the technical leader of offshore support team
  • Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for product modernization and problem resolution

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Qualifications

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Minimum of 5+ years of Confluent Kafka administration experience

Minimum of 15+ years of messaging system experience

Confluent certified administrator and/or developer a +

Experience with messaging systems such as IBM MQ and Solace

Skills sets

The following are required skills

  • Extensive experience with Confluent Kafka admin and development
  • Experience with messaging systems such as IBM MQ and Solace
  • Expert knowledge of scripting (Python, Java, etc.)
  • Knowledge/experience with GIT and CI/CD
  • Familiarity with REST APIs
  • with Automation tools a + (Ansible, Azure DevOps, etc.)
  • Familiarity/experience
  • General UNIX support skills (services, bash, scripting, etc.)
  • Experience with Confluent Cloud a+
  • Experience with other middleware or streaming platforms a +
  • Experience with Docker, PCF, or other container platforms a +
  • Experience with ADO and Scrum a +
  • Must have good communication skills and habit to create project documentation
  • Must be a self-starter

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.