Director, SW Engineering

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.

Role: Director, SW Engineering

In this role you will be accountable for the consistency in quality, overall performance, engineering soundness, security, execution of sprints, support and maintenance of all software engineering for the account open initiative.  You will participate in scrum ceremonies, project design discussions, business discussions, code reviews and even the hands-on creation or modification of software.  This position is a leadership role who will directly lead software engineering teams and collaborate with leaders from other teams (e.g. product management, security, infrastructure, and operations) to make engineering decisions, work through issues and align the product roadmap to our business outcomes.  Leadership and organizational skills are required to develop and manage the OKRs for the initiative.  You are familiar with operating in a hybrid environment, including on-prem, public cloud (I.E. Azure, AWS, GCP etc. ) and SaaS/PaaS partners.  You will partner and work closely with product leaders to ensure alignment with Northern Trust, Product and Technology OKRs for this high profile initiative.

Your day-to-day

·       Foster the development and maintenance of common engineering approaches consistent with organizational standards and industry best practices

·       Establish and maintain a balanced iteration cadence with a professional level of quality across all sprints

·       Understand cloud product development, managed cloud services, and able to provide technical and strategic feedback on improvement to the cloud product strategy total cost of ownership.

·       Use “Voice of the Customer” contributions from Product and business teams to continually improve solution design quality

·       Work with the product owners to apply the overall business strategy and priority to the software engineering backlog, working with business partners and software engineering team leaders to assist in sprint planning.

·       Continually improve cloud deployment practices to enable shorter release cycles

·       Work side by side with the Architecture and Engineering team to keep the software engineering roadmap aligned to company goals.

·       Partner with Product and engineering leadership to establish, manage and foster the improvement of processes such as agile practices, deployment planning, change management, on -call rotations, etc.

·       Maintain the integrity and efficiency of software engineering processes

·       Ensure laws, company policies, practices and procedures are followed by team members

Skills

·       Proven experience leading teams in the development and deployment of solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.

·       Hands-on experience in a multitude of domains including agile development, business analysis, software engineering, database design, enterprise software architecture, technology leadership and software quality assurance.

·       Extensive and relevant experience prioritizing the work of others, challenging and resolving interruptions to prioritized work, resolving interpersonal conflict and motivating and organizing teams.

·       Demonstrated solid understanding of scalable technology architectures

·       Hands-on technical experience solving business problems in, but not limited to one or more of the following business areas:  operations, back office systems, and/or business process re-engineering, workflo