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 digit products.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise digital solutions aligned with business and technical requirements.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams while promoting engineering best practices.
- Drive application, data, and event-store optimization, including logging, monitoring, reporting, dashboarding, and security administration.
- Ensure code quality through architecture reviews, testing, and adherence to development standards.
- Champion Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud engineering practices to improve delivery speed and reliability.
- Collaborate with product, business, and technology stakeholders to define solutions and strategic priorities.
- Monitor system health, resolve stability and scalability issues, and drive continuous improvement.
- 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.
- Ensure compliance with organizational standards, security policies, and governance requirements.
Required Qualifications
- 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. MQ/Solace, and enterprise integration technologies.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines/DevOps practices.
- Experience with Agile methodologies, and Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge of Linux, cloud platforms, VMware, networking, and security technologies.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineering teams.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5–7+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience working in Agile environments.
- Experience with digital product, workflow automation, and transaction services within financial services environments is a plus.
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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