Northern Trust
Principal – GitHub & Azure DevOps Platform Engineering
Tempe, AZ · Principal
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About the role
- This role is accountable for the current and future state of GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, software supply chain security, artifact management, and developer productivity services across the organization.
- You will work closely with engineering, architecture, security, infrastructure, application teams, risk and compliance, along with executive leadership to define and execute the long-term roadmap for enterprise DevOps and developer experience platforms.
Responsibilities
- Drive modernization of software delivery capabilities, including migration from legacy CI/CD tooling and platforms to GitHub and Azure DevOps.
- Lead the migration strategy and execution approach for enterprise-scale CI/CD transformation initiatives.
- Partner with enterprise architecture and engineering leaders to align platform capabilities with broader modernization and cloud strategies.
- Design and implement enterprise CI/CD standards, reusable workflows, templates, and automation frameworks.
- Drive adoption of GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and modern software delivery practices.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, standards, engineering playbooks, and onboarding materials.
- Manage GitHub Copilot consumption, licensing, and budget oversight in partnership with platform, finance, and engineering stakeholders to ensure AI capabilities are adopted responsibly, usage is visible, and value is maximized against spend.
- Lead migration initiatives involving:
- Develop migration factory approaches including inventory, complexity assessment, wave planning, automation, testing, and cutover strategies.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or software delivery platforms.
- Proven experience architecting and operating enterprise-scale GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps environments.
- Deep expertise in CI/CD architecture, pipeline engineering, and software delivery modernization.
- Experience leading large-scale platform transformation and migration initiatives.
- Strong understanding of source control management, repository governance, release management, and software development lifecycle practices.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, reusable workflows, templates, and automation frameworks.
- Strong scripting and automation experience with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Experience operating artifact management platforms such as Nexus Repository or equivalent solutions.
- Strong understanding of software supply chain security, secrets management, dependency management, and DevSecOps principles.
Nice to have
- Experience within highly regulated enterprise environments.
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise Cloud and on-premises and cloud runners.
- Experience with Azure cloud services, identity, governance, networking, and security capabilities.
- Experience with container platforms and Kubernetes-based workloads.
- Familiarity with GitOps and modern deployment methodologies.
- Experience with enterprise observability and monitoring platforms.
- Experience supporting multiple application technology stacks including.NET, Java, Python, Node.js, containerized workloads, and mainframe-integrated delivery pipelines.
- Industry certifications related to GitHub, Azure, DevOps, cloud architecture, security, or platform engineering.
Skills
- About Northern Trust
- As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services,
- Northern Trust (Nasdaq:
- NTRS) is proud to guide the world's most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.
- Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding
- Principles That Endure:
- Service, Expertise, and Integrity.
- Principal Architect - GitHub & Azure DevOps Platform Engineering
Benefits
- Own the technical vision, roadmap, and architecture for GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, Nexus Repository, and related CI/CD platforms.
Company info
- Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust's history and is an essential element of our culture.
Equal opportunity
- Reasonable Accommodation
- If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com, or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
- Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).
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