Sr Implementation Lead, SRE (CoP)

Northern Trust • Chicago, IL

16d

About The Position

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. Overview The SRE Community of Practice (CoP) Senior Implementation Lead is responsible for driving the adoption, standardization, and maturity of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices across the organization. This role serves as a key enabler in scaling SRE principles, fostering collaboration, and ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide reliability, observability, and automation goals.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or software reliability engineering roles.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, cloud-native architectures, modern hybrid architectures, and observability practices.
• Hands-on experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk, Azure Monitor), and incident management frameworks.
• Proven ability to build and lead communities of practice within large-scale enterprises.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• SRE Practice Implementation & Governance Lead the strategic implementation of SRE frameworks, aligning with global best practices and business objectives.
• Develop and enforce SRE standards, processes, and governance models to drive operational resilience.
• Define and enable SREs to track key reliability metrics (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets) across critical applications and infrastructure.
• Community Building & Knowledge Sharing Establish and nurture a strong SRE Community of Practice, promoting knowledge exchange and shared learning.
• Organize technical forums, workshops, and training programs to uplift SRE capabilities across engineering teams.
• Act as a mentor and advisor to SRE teams, enabling continuous improvement in site reliability practices.
• Automation & Tooling Enablement Drive the adoption of automation-first approaches for incident response, capacity planning, and release engineering.
• Partner with platform engineering teams to standardize observability, chaos engineering, and self-healing mechanisms.
• Identify and implement industry-leading SRE tools and technologies to enhance system resilience.
• Collaboration & Cross-Functional Engagement Work closely with engineering, operations, risk, and compliance teams to embed SRE principles into SDLC and ITSM processes.
• Serve as a bridge between leadership and technical teams, translating strategic objectives into actionable SRE initiatives.
• Advocate for a culture of reliability, blameless postmortems, and continuous learning across the enterprise.
• Empower a distributed community of practitioners to work across organizational partitions and contribute to enabler services and systems Continuous Improvement & Innovation Evaluate emerging trends in SRE, DevOps, and AI-driven reliability engineering to drive innovation.
• Establish a feedback loop to measure the impact of SRE initiatives and continuously refine strategies.
• Promote resilience engineering techniques to proactively identify and mitigate failure points.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees