Sr Lead Data Engineer

About Northern Trust:

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.

Sr Lead Data Engineer

Key skills required for the role:

• Expertise in designing data driven solution on Snowflake for complex business needs.
• Investment Management or Asset Management experience recommended.
• Design the database, data models, ETL processes, and data warehouse applications through the use of best practices, tools and patterns.
• Expert level understanding of relational database concepts, dimensional database concepts and database architecture and design, ontology and taxonomy design.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Business or Finance or equivalent experience.
• Intellectual curiosity, inclination for independent and self-directed work, and attention to detail.
• Professional experience driving change, transformation, and process improvement initiatives.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders and executive leadership to achieve business outcomes
• Understanding of data security, cyber-security and PII management
• Deep understanding of relational and NoSQL data stores, methods and approaches.
• Advanced data analytics using ML, AI and GenAI

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage relationships with all stakeholders, with a focus on setting expectations and maintaining ongoing client satisfaction through effective project management and a strong commitment to customer service.
• Evangelize data strategist working through design, documentation, review and cross team negotiations to support strategic business and technology goals.
• Displays thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology
• Leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
• Provides architecture direction for engineers in support of a technical pattern.
• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt. Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture.
• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
• Participates in defining target state technology architecture and roadmaps. Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state.
• Contribute to a fast-paced Agile team and participate in multiple aspects of planning, documentation, execution, testing and launch of projects
• Interface with global teams to collaborative work on business deliveries.
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models for large scale technology platforms.

Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline is required.
• Seasoned expert with technical and business knowledge and functional expertise that has been developed over several years.
• Experience in systems analysis and application program development.
• Experience with project feasibility, definition requirements, design and/or project leadership.
• Experience with various technical programming languages, and phase report studies is required.

Salary Range:

$114,500 - 194,700 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

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.