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Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.\nWith more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.\nThe Principal, Security Development & Automation is a senior technical contributor who helps protect Northern Trust by engineering automation-first security capabilities. This role is responsible for designing and delivering AI-enabled workflows, API integrations, playbooks, scripts and platform services that strengthen cyber defense, reduce manual operational burden and make security outcomes more consistent, measurable and repeatable. The Principal Partner works across security engineering, operations, infrastructure, application, risk, audit and technology teams to identify high-value security workflows, translate them into automation patterns and deliver solutions that improve control execution, threat response, vulnerability management, evidence collection and operational resilience.\nWhat You'll Do\nProtect Northern Trust Through Security Driven Development and Automation\nBuild development and automation capabilities that help protect Northern Trust’s technology environment, reduce cyber risk and improve the consistency of security execution.\nEngineer AI agent-based workflows that support security triage, enrichment, correlation, investigation support, evidence collection, control validation and remediation orchestration.\nCreate secure API integrations across security platforms, ITSM, CMDB, vulnerability management, cloud, network, identity, data and observability tools to connect signals, decisions and actions.\nDevelop reliable workflow automation assets that remove friction from security operations and make high-value controls easier to operate at scale.\nPartner with security architecture, platform engineering, cloud security, IAM, threat and governance teams to create reusable automation standards, secure engineering patterns, guardrails and operational handoffs.\nKey Deliverables\nOwn development and automation capabilities that help Northern Trust protect critical services and data, including:Security workflow automation that accelerates discovery, response, remediation and control validation\nAPI integrations and reusable playbooks that connect security platforms, enterprise data sources and operational systems of record\nAI-enabled assistants and agents that improve security decision support while respecting enterprise controls, approvals and data protection requirements\nDesign and Build LLM-based vulnerability scanning and remediation solutions.\n\nIntegrate LLM capabilities responsibly using enterprise AI platforms such as AI Foundry, approved model providers and vendor AI harnesses to enhance-not replace-security judgment and control execution.\nDevelop prompt, retrieval, orchestration, testing and evaluation patterns that make AI-enabled workflows reliable, observable, secure and aligned to enterprise policy.\nEngineer automation with strong authentication, authorization, secrets handling, logging, exception handling, change control and auditability so solutions can be trusted in production security workflows.\nDocument architecture, runbooks, decision logic, reusable patterns and operational handoffs so capabilities can be supported, governed and improved over time.\nInfluence platform roadmaps, vendor integrations and automation priorities based on risk reduction, control effectiveness, resiliency, stability and reuse.\nMentor junior team members\nWhat You'll Bring\n15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, security automation, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation or related technology disciplines.\nStrong understanding of how development and automation can be used to protect enterprise environments, improve control execution and reduce operational risk.\nDemonstrated ability to operate as a principal-level technical partner: setting direction, influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, leading complex technical delivery and driving adoption across teams without relying on direct authority.\nHands-on development skills in Python, including API consumption, data transformation, automation frameworks, error handling, testing and operational supportability.\nExperience integrating security, ITSM, cloud, identity, observability or data platforms through REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven patterns, workflow tools or orchestration platforms.\nWorking knowledge of LLM-enabled solution patterns, AI agent workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, model evaluation, AI guardrails and secure use of enterprise AI platforms.\nAbility to deliver in a regulated environment with strong attention to audit-ready evidence, access controls, change management, testability, resiliency and production support.\nNice to Have\nPrior experience in financial services, banking, asset servicing, wealth management or another highly regulated industry.\nExperience with ServiceNow workflows, Vulnerability Response, SecOps, CMDB, ITSM integrations or similar enterprise workflow platforms.\nExperience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, GitHub Actions, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines or cloud-native automation patterns.\nExperience building automation for vulnerability management, exposure management, threat response, identity security, network security or cloud security operations.\nWork Authorization\nApplicants must have the right to work in Ireland at the time of application and for the duration of employment.\nPlease note that Northern Trust is unable to provide employment permit sponsorship for this role. This includes Critical Skills Employment Permits, General Employment Permits, Intra-Company Transfer Employment Permits, Stamp 1G permissions, and other employment permits under Irish immigration frameworks.\nWorking with Us\nAs 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 committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.\nPhilanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.\nReasonable Accommodation\nNorthern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. 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