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- Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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.
Sr Lead, SW Eng
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Job Description Summary
Under general direction provides consultation to business unit and IT management and staff at technical level on all phases of the project development cycle. Designs major systems and their subsystems utilizing an understanding of available technology, tools and existing designs. Works closely with client management to identify and specify the complex business requirements. No direct management responsibilities, but is accountable for the effectiveness, quality and timeliness of project design decisions and how easily these designs can be implemented. Experienced, functional area expert with technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise. Must be competent to work at a technical level of all phases of system design and implementation.
Job Description
Major Duties
1. Provide consultation to business unit and IT management and staff at ta high technical level on all phases of the project development cycle.
2. Designer for systems and their subsystems utilizing a thorough understanding of available technology, tools and existing designs.
3. Provide leadership and guidance to junior staff, fostering an environment that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and communication.
4. Consult with business unit partners to determine the most effective computer utilization to solve business problems or address business needs.
5. Help direct systems projects, including project planning, management status reporting, systems specifications and implementation.
6. Review, negotiate, and maintain vendor contracts and makes recommendations for purchasing outside services.
7. Communicate with various business areas and outside vendors, consultants, and clients regarding automation needs.
8. Help ensure compliance with all audit requirements including change control procedures and data security.
9. Coordinate with application vendors and vendor support teams for incident triaging/resolution and for periodic application upkeep via. Patches
10. Track application EOL/EOS status and work with Enterprise Architect on remediation measures
11. Track vulnerabilities and other risk items with the application and underlying tech stack
Knowledge Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.
In-depth knowledge of the system development life cycle, the client areas functions and systems, and applications program development technological alternatives
Analytical ability, strong judgment and management skills, and the ability to work effectively with client and IT management and staff.
Highly flexible and adaptable to change.
Leadership and organizational skills are required to help determine the Business Units goals, resources needed, and help assess and assist in the development of the skills of the staff.
Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline is required.
Seasoned expert with technical and business knowledge and functional expertise that has been developed over several years.
Experience in systems analysis and application program development.
Experience with project feasibility, definition requirements, design and/or project leadership.
Experience with various technical programming languages, and phase report studies is required.
Candidate must have 13+ years of experience working on below technologies
Java/J2EE technologies
Oracle Database (incl. SQL performance monitoring and performance tuning)
Unix/shell scripting
Messaging technologies (MQ, Solace, Kafka)
Application Monitoring Tools (Dynatrace, APM etc)
Application Servers Weblogic, Websphere etc.
experience with Oracle FLEXCUBE application development version 12.x and higher
Implementation/Development
GitHub for release pipeline management
DevOps experience
Below additional skills are nice to have
Design and Development of Spring Boot based microservices deployable on cloud platforms.
Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Data JPA , Spring JMS. Spring MVC, Spring Cloud)
XML technologies
Event Driven Microservices (JMS or Kafka).
Creating Automated Test Cases using Junit and Mockito
Build and Deploy tools, CI/CD Pipelines
Knowledge of React JS and Droolswould be an added advantage
Application development and implementation experience with PCF and Azure cloud
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
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Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.