Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
The Principal Software Engineer in NTAM (Northern Trust Asset Management) Investments Technology is a senior technical leader with 10+ years’ experience in financial services responsible for architecting and delivering scalable software and data platforms with a strong emphasis on Python-based services, data engineering, and Cloud enablement. Senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) Technical supporting front-office Fixed Income investment platforms. Acts as a strategic liaison between Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Technology teams to drive delivery of scalable, high-performing solutions across portfolio construction, trading, analytics, and risk. Leads complex initiatives, shapes business requirements, and ensures alignment with investment strategy, regulatory standards, and platform modernization goals.
Requirements
- 10+ years’ experience in financial services
- Experience with solutioning and integrating with InvestorTools Perform, Risk models and developing Optimization constraints for Fixed Income portfolio construction.
- Understanding of Asset Management Investments asset classes (equities, fixed income, alternatives), portfolio theory, and investment constraints.
- Experience with Aladdin Enterprise/Charles River (CRD), Bloomberg AIM or other Portfolio and Order Management, integrating Aladdin SaaS to develop Investment tools and processes.
- Experience with financial data providers (e.g., Bloomberg, FactSet, MSCI) and APIs.
Nice To Haves
- Python-based services
- data engineering
- Cloud enablement
Responsibilities
- Serve as SME across Fixed Income products (rates, credit, municipals, derivatives) and investment workflows
- Partner with PMs, Traders, Risk, and Compliance to translate business needs into scalable technology solutions
- Drive domain consistency across portfolio construction, trading, analytics, and reporting platforms
- End-to-end requirements lifecycle (discovery, documentation, validation & delivery)
- Create high-quality artifacts: BRDs, functional specs, user stories, process flows, and data mappings
- Collaborate with SMEs, data and engineering teams to evaluate solution options and define target-state architecture
- Ensure alignment with platform modernization (cloud, APIs, data platforms)
- Define data requirements across positions, pricing, risk factors, cash flows, and analytics
- Validate data quality, reconciliation, and reporting outputs (including FX and performance impact)
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non‑technical stakeholders and influence architectural decisions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve critical production issues, ensuring high availability and performance of applications.
- Define user stories and acceptance criteria, support backlog prioritization & deliver sprint demos and stakeholder updates
- Coordinate UAT across business, vendors, and technology teams, ensure smooth release implementation and adoption.
Benefits
- 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
- other voluntary and well-being benefits
- discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
