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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.\nRole Overview\nThe Senior Lead Software Engineer is responsible for providing hands-on technical leadership across the design, development, modernization, and delivery of digital solutions supporting the Client Onboarding & Enrollments portfolio.\nThis role combines deep software engineering expertise with architecture influence, cloud engineering, DevOps, AI-assisted development, and team enablement. The Senior Lead partners closely with Product, Architecture, Engineering, QA, SRE, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performing digital products.\nThe role serves as a senior technical leader across engineering teams, driving engineering standards, mentoring engineers, addressing complex technical challenges, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, risk, and governance requirements.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnical Leadership & Engineering\nLead the design, development, implementation, and modernization of complex enterprise digital solutions.\nRemain hands-on with Java/JEE, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and modern web applications.\nProvide technical direction across multiple applications, components, and engineering teams.\nLead technical design and architecture reviews to ensure scalability, security, performance, resiliency, and maintainability.\nEstablish and promote clean-code practices, reusable engineering patterns, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and spec-driven/contract-first development.\nPerform and guide code reviews, technical deep dives, proof-of-concepts, and resolution of complex engineering challenges.\nPartner with architects and senior engineers to define and continuously improve engineering standards and reference patterns.\nCloud, Platform & Modernization\nDesign and deliver cloud-native solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure and modern engineering practices.\nProvide technical leadership across Azure compute, networking, storage, integration, security, and cloud database capabilities.\nDrive modernization of legacy applications and services toward scalable, API-first, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures.\nEnsure solutions are designed for availability, observability, scalability, performance, resiliency, and operational supportability.\nProvide technical guidance for data architecture, integration patterns, Oracle/SQL, Elasticsearch, MQ/Solace, and related enterprise technologies.\nDevOps, Quality & Automation\nChampion Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure automation practices.\nDrive Test-Driven Development and comprehensive automation across unit, integration, regression, and system testing.\nStrengthen CI/CD pipelines and release practices to improve deployment reliability, quality, and delivery velocity.\nPartner with DevOps and SRE teams to improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboarding, incident response, and production readiness.\nIdentify recurring operational issues and drive engineering improvements that reduce technical debt and improve application stability.\nAI-Assisted Engineering\nChampion responsible adoption of AI-assisted software engineering tools and practices to improve developer productivity, quality, and engineering effectiveness.\nIdentify opportunities to incorporate AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, code generation, testing, documentation, and engineering productivity capabilities into development workflows.\nEstablish effective engineering practices that combine AI-assisted development with appropriate code review, testing, security, and governance controls.\nEngineering Excellence & Team Enablement\nMentor and develop engineers across design, coding, testing, cloud engineering, DevOps, and production support disciplines.\nProvide technical guidance to Lead and Senior Software Engineers while promoting strong engineering ownership and accountability.\nFoster a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.\nLead by influence across engineering teams and help drive alignment on technology decisions, standards, and strategic technical priorities.\nPromote reusable engineering capabilities and patterns that improve consistency and accelerate delivery across the portfolio.\nApplication Reliability, Risk & Governance\nMonitor application and platform health and lead resolution of complex stability, performance, scalability, and resiliency issues.\nIdentify, assess, and mitigate technology, operational, security, and engineering risks.\nEnsure appropriate controls are incorporated into application design, development, deployment, and operational processes.\nProactively address vulnerabilities, technical debt, and production risks to maintain application reliability and resilience.\nEnsure solutions comply with organizational architecture standards, security policies, technology controls, regulatory expectations, and governance requirements.\nCollaboration & Strategic Influence\nPartner closely with Product, Business, Architecture, QA, SRE, Security, Infrastructure, and other technology teams.\nTranslate business requirements and strategic priorities into scalable technical solutions and engineering roadmaps.\nCommunicate complex technology decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nInfluence technology direction and engineering priorities through technical expertise and data-driven recommendations.\nCollaborate effectively with globally distributed teams across North America, EMEA, and India.\nProactively identify dependencies, constraints, technology risks, and opportunities while recommending pragmatic solutions.\nRequired Qualifications\nTechnical Skills\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant hands-on development and technical leadership experience.\nDeep expertise in Java/JEE, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise application development.\nStrong experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure.\nStrong experience with Oracle, SQL, Elasticsearch, MQ/Solace, and enterprise integration technologies.\nSolid understanding of distributed systems, API design, event-driven architecture, data modeling, and application performance optimization.\nStrong experience with CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.\nPractical experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and spec-driven/contract-first development.\nExperience with Linux, networking, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, observability, and application security.\nUnderstanding of application architecture, cloud architecture, security, scalability, availability, and resiliency principles.\nLeadership & Professional Skills\nProven ability to provide hands-on technical leadership across complex engineering initiatives.\nDemonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate engineering practices across teams.\nAbility to lead and influence technology decisions without relying on direct reporting authority.\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, design, and problem-solving capabilities.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to communicate architecture and engineering decisions clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.\nComfortable operating in complex, fast-paced, globally distributed enterprise environments.\nEducation & Experience\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.\n8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading complex application development initiatives.\nExperience working within Agile product and engineering organizations.\nExperience delivering enterprise-grade systems in regulated environments.\nExperience with digital products, workflow automation, transaction processing, client onboarding, or financial services platforms is preferred.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMicrosoft Azure certification, particularly Azure architecture or development certifications.\nExperience with AI-assisted software development and engineering productivity tools.\nExperience with large-scale application modernization and cloud migration.\nExperience designing highly available distributed and event-driven systems.\nExperience establishing reusable engineering patterns, frameworks, or platform capabilities across multiple teams.\nExperience operating mission-critical applications in highly regulated enterprise environments.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nEngineering teams consistently deliver secure, resilient, scalable, and high-quality digital products.\nTechnical solutions align with long-term architecture strategy while meeting immediate business and client needs.\nCI/CD, automation, testing, observability, and DevOps practices improve delivery reliability and time-to-market.\nCloud-native and modernization initiatives measurably improve application scalability, maintainability, and operational resilience.\nEngineers grow in technical capability, ownership, design thinking, and engineering discipline.\nAI-assisted development is adopted responsibly to improve engineering productivity while maintaining quality, security, and governance.\nArchitecture and engineering decisions effectively balance innovation, delivery speed, operational stability, risk, and long-term maintainability.\nSalary Range:\n$114,500 - 194,700 USDSalary 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.\nWork Authorization\nApplicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).\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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