Sr Lead, SW Eng

Northern Trust • Chicago, IL

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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. Job Description AND Principal Responsibilities The Cash Development Sr Lead is responsible for leading the development team and deliverables within the Cash and Corporate Technology. This role covers the bank’s core cash processing applications. The candidate will lead the team of Level 2-3 development and support personals, participate in resolving significant incidents involving required stakeholders. The candidate will also provide clear and concise business communication during discussion with product and architecture teams. The successful candidate will work across application development, application support, infrastructure, and business teams to provide technical solutions, deliver production changes, participate in application audit requirements, matters requires attention, resolve incidents and ensure root-cause analysis is completed and remediation is done. This position is a critical role working closely with the core business operations teams, application development teams, application product and solution architecture team. Primary responsibility is to lead the application development team and work with vendor, product team and architecture team in delivering technical solutions. Assign work responsibilities to all team members and make sure the stories are delivered in-time and with utmost correctness and hygiene. Work closely with solution architecture and product team for providing business solutions. Should be flexible for upskilling and manage team members of same and different skill sets. Availability to provide coverage during weekends in case of change implementation, scheduled DR events, release validation efforts and in cases of major issues / failure reported. Responsible for leading and implementing Disaster Recovery tests including FED resiliency tests. Technical expertise with installing MTS core service pack and snapshots Provide L3 support for production incident calls, involve needed teams in the call to fast-track the work around and get production back to BAU within SLA. Review and Maintain high standards of knowledge documentation in SharePoint/repository. Develop and maintain excellent relationships and communication with global stakeholders, self / other IT teams, and business areas. Ability to work with vendors and support staff on support tickets and follow up regularly till resolution is found. Coordinate with upstream and downstream teams proactively for any risks or potential issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent
• 10-12 years of experience in application development preferably in Banking domain
• Must have - Strong experience with Unix, Oracle and enterprise web application architectures and modern frameworks
• Technical Expertise with MTS/UPF product, Entia database, RGW
• Experience with shell scripting
• Experience with IBM MQ, Solace
• Batch Support experience using Control-M
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools like Dynatrace, CA APM, Sitescope
• Experience with Service Now (IT Service Management tool)
• Experience in leading team
• Experience in Agile Processes.
• Experience communicating with non-technical/business stakeholders using appropriate language suitable for the communicating technical issues and talking points

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge and understanding of financial applications
• Knowledge and understanding of application servers, databases and networks in a corporate enterprise infrastructure.
• Knowledge of Java , Spring boot

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading the development team and deliverables within the Cash and Corporate Technology.
• Lead the team of Level 2-3 development and support personals, participate in resolving significant incidents involving required stakeholders.
• Provide clear and concise business communication during discussion with product and architecture teams.
• Work across application development, application support, infrastructure, and business teams to provide technical solutions, deliver production changes, participate in application audit requirements, matters requires attention, resolve incidents and ensure root-cause analysis is completed and remediation is done.
• Lead the application development team and work with vendor, product team and architecture team in delivering technical solutions.
• Assign work responsibilities to all team members and make sure the stories are delivered in-time and with utmost correctness and hygiene.
• Work closely with solution architecture and product team for providing business solutions.
• Be flexible for upskilling and manage team members of same and different skill sets.
• Provide coverage during weekends in case of change implementation, scheduled DR events, release validation efforts and in cases of major issues / failure reported.
• Responsible for leading and implementing Disaster Recovery tests including FED resiliency tests.
• Provide L3 support for production incident calls, involve needed teams in the call to fast-track the work around and get production back to BAU within SLA.
• Review and Maintain high standards of knowledge documentation in SharePoint/repository.
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships and communication with global stakeholders, self / other IT teams, and business areas.
• Ability to work with vendors and support staff on support tickets and follow up regularly till resolution is found.
• Coordinate with upstream and downstream teams proactively for any risks or potential issues.

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
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees