Chicago, IL
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.
NT Intranet
Senior Lead, Solutions Architect
About Northern Trust
Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions and affluent families and individuals globally. With over 130 years of financial experience and nearly 20,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company that is committed to strengthening the communities we serve!
Who We Are
NT Intranet is a development team dedicated to delivering innovative and differentiated experiences to Northern Trust partners. The NT Intranet team is committed to growing and supporting a diverse team, with a collaborative environment that provides educational and career growth opportunities. As a NT Intranet Senior Lead/Architect, you will drive the NT Intranet development of a large-scale website and mobile experience that aligns with our partner and stakeholder business needs.
What You Will Do
The NT Intranet Senior Lead/Architect is a strong communicator who takes ownership of the technical leadership, encourages the team to mature our Intranet delivery, and
- Contributes to an open culture that enables employees' development through direct but kind feedback, promotes diverse perspectives and fosters a sense of curiosity and optimism
- Works with the technical leadership team to define a technical architecture for NT Internet digital capabilities
- Drives delivery of Intranet solutions to align with business needs
- Ensures the realization of the desired business outcome by implementing solutions and tracking those through to final development
- Exercises judgement based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
- Serves as objective escalation point for conflicts during the development process
- Mentors the team as needed to remove impediments, achieve project goals and grow less experience team members
- Provide solutions to complex problems
- Carries out the most complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and strategic execution
- Define best practices and development guidelines and ensures the team is aligned to those standards
- Consistently displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the rest of the team to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity
- Ensures compliance and identifies and escalates risks, with an eye toward change control procedures and data security
- Defines and monitors metrics to improve applications' stability and availability, as well as sustain and improve cost efficiencies and productivity gains
- Highly flexible and adaptable to change
- Exhibits excellent oral and written communication skills
- Builds relationship with our business partners and vendors as needed
Your Knowledge and Skills
As an NT Intranet Senior Lead/Architect, you
must have
the following experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience supporting teams and mentoring developers on the application of Lean, Agile and continuous learning practices
- 12+ years of application development experience using modern technical frameworks and architecture, including experience leading a technology team
- Development and delivery of multi-channel applications (web, mobile, API, etc.) and modern architectures
- Development and delivery of content management system based applications (SharePoint, Akumina, etc.)
- Experience with REACT, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Java, Spring and Cloud technologies
- Experience with databases such as Oracle
- Understanding of the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) and/or other methodologies
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Strong leadership and organizational skills with ability to structure efficient and effective teams
- Knowledge of various website application designs and
- programming techniques
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and develop innovative solutions to meet project expectations
- Experience managing and implementing website security and risk agendas
The following
nice-to-haves
represent just a few of the other experiences that may be relevant to this position
- Business knowledge of financial services applications
We're interested in learning more about the experiences that you would bring to Northern Trust. Apply here, or check out our other open positions at
northerntrustcareers.com.
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
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.