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Director, SW Engineering

Northern Trust Corporation
Chicago, Illinois, US
Full-time

About Northern Trust

If your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.

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.

Job Description Summary

Will be responsible for managing Message Gateway and SWIFT applications. Conducts the performance management process, identifies training and development needs, and establishes performance standards for the division / unit / function.

Participates in developing the strategic plan and manages the unit's expenses.

Job Details

  • Implementation experience with in-house Java based messaging platforms and vended platforms and have knowledge on payment domain.
  • Recent experience with estimating and managing technology enablement projects and managing towards a budget.
  • Minimum 7 years of people management experience, including contract workforce and full-time employees.
  • Expert level analytical skills, both qualitative and quantitative; intellectually curious; excellent problem-solving abilities and ability to break apart issues and come up to speed on new issues, attention to detail.
  • Must be able to work through ambiguous requests and shape into concrete needs and Jira / ADO elements.
  • Familiar with latest trends in agile and devops, along with respective tools.
  • Business acumen toward commercial outcomes.
  • Process oriented to ensure proper governance is followed, and identify improvements where gaps exist.
  • Transformation of on-prem solutions to cloud experience is required.
  • Financial services industry background preferred.
  • Manages an applications unit or function. Establishes performance standards for the unit. Conducts the performance management process, identifies training and career development needs.
  • Determines staffing needs, makes hiring and firing decisions, handles salary administration, and ensures resources are available to accomplish priorities.

Develops and manages diversity programs and programs for the unit.

  • Reviews, negotiates, and maintains vendor contracts and makes recommendations for purchasing outside services.
  • Ensures compliance with all audit requirements including change control procedures and data security.
  • Provides leadership and guidance to staff, fostering an environment that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and communication.
  • Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity.

Knowledge : Knowledge of Java, Messaging applications such as MQ, Kafka etc, Pivotal cloud foundry, Oracle database, Azure public cloud.

Experience : A College or University degree in Computer Science and / or relevant proven work experience is required.

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

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

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