Principal Tech PM

About Northern Trust :

Is this the next step in your career Find out if you are the right candidate by reading through the complete overview below.

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.

Senior Technology Program Manager

WHO WE ARE :

Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions and affluent families and individuals globally.

With 130 years of financial experience and nearly 20,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Today, we are going through a metamorphosis starting with our Wealth Management business where we are embracing Agile ways of working and exploring new technologies like cloud, analytics, microservices architecture, etc.

Last but not least, our advanced Digital design systems enable us to put our valued customers at the heart of our user experience.

WHO YOU ARE :

As a Senior Program Manager, you will work closely with business, product and technology teams to drive the execution of Global Family Office (GFO) initiatives and deliver business value to our clients.

You will be interacting with executive and leadership teams as part of the frequent check-in of the program status. You will be working with diverse global talent as part of this program.

Furthermore, you bring :

Expertise in program management of large scale application transformation

Agile experience managing several feature teams and shared services

Experience in the financial services industry, ideally in the High Net worth / Ultra High Net worth segments.

Extensive experience with forecast and budget management for complex initiatives with multiple teams and vendors

Experience running Executive leadership and stakeholder presentations

Understanding of technology interdependencies

Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams from Product, Design, Business and IT

Experience with facilitating agile ceremonies, managing a backlog / release plan, tracking team level metrics, removing blockers

Experience working with global delivery teams including vendors

Experience in status reporting at various levels

Experience in collaboration and productivity tools like Clarity, Beeline, Azure Boards, Confluence, Office 365

WHAT YOU’LL DO :

• Interact with business, product & technology teams to deliver business value to our clients
• Provides leadership support to staff related to agile development
• Contributes to an open culture that enables employees’ development through direct but kind feedback, promotes diverse perspectives and fosters a sense of curiosity and optimism
• Lead implementation teams to ensure quality, completeness and timeliness of solution delivery.
• Lead cross-functional and technical agile teams to deliver client experience, stable platform, automation led CI / D and empower innovation
• Serve as first-line of escalation for the program delivery teams
• Promote self-managing teams
• Foster the culture of learning to nurture a learning organization
• Enable team members to participate and contribute to communities of practice
• Promote a one-team culture accountable for quality
• Coach teams to go above and beyond their expectations to develop creative and innovative solutions (rather than accepting the constraints)
• Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Owners and Scrum Masters in fostering agility
• Change agent for enabling culture of psychological safety, where team members are respected and encouraged to think, speak and act bravely to promote continuous improvement.
• Develop plans that consider the intersection of technology, digital, design and data and creates supporting KPIs to track against business outcomes
• Provide capital and expense budget planning adjusting priorities on a quarterly basis based on business objectives
• Provide thought partnership in establishing and tracking metrics to improve applications’ stability and availability, as well as sustain and improve cost efficiencies and productivity gains

WHY US :

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.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company that is committed to strengthening the communities we serve.

Our talented, driven and energetic people are truly changing the face of Northern Trust. The speed with which we work, the influence of each partner and the focus to positively change the client experience is our common passion.

People are our greatest Wealth, so if you have a genuine desire to work in a fast-paced, Agile, inclusive environment which values teamwork, well-honed problem-solving skills, deadline management, ongoing and comprehensive communication, constant attention to detail, and a commitment to continuous improvement then

seek no more!

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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