Northern Trust

Lead, SW Full Stack Eng

Chicago, IL

No sponsorship$100k-$169kDetected 7 days ago

JavaSpringFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLAzureCloud PlatformsCI/CDLinuxDevOpsRESTAgileLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams while promoting engineering best practices.
Ensure code quality through architecture reviews, testing, and adherence to development standards.

Lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise digital solutions aligned with business and technical requirements.
Drive application, data, and event-store optimization, including logging, monitoring, reporting, dashboarding, and security administration.
Collaborate with product, business, and technology stakeholders to define solutions and strategic priorities.
Identify, assess, and mitigate technology, operational, and security risks by implementing effective controls, ensuring compliance with governance standards, and proactively addressing vulnerabilities to maintain application reliability, resilience, and regulatory compliance.
The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for leading the design, development, and delivery of digital solutions supporting the Client Onboarding & Lifecycle Management (CLM) portfolio within Global Engineering.
This role provides hands-on technical leadership, drives engineering excellence, and partners with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing dig it products.

5+ years of full-stack Java/JEE development experience.
Strong expertise in Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices, and web application development.
Experience with Oracle, SQL, Elasticsearch.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines / DevOps practices.
Experience with Agile methodologies, and Azure DevOps.
Knowledge of Linux, cloud platforms, VMware, networking, and security technologies.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
5-7+ years of software engineering experience.
Experience working in Agile environments.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Experience with digital product, workflow automation, and transaction services within financial services environments is a plus.

Champion Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud engineering practices to improve delivery speed and reliability.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Monitor system health, resolve stability and scalability issues, and drive continuous improvement.
Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
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.
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities.

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.

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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