Lead Software Engineer

Northern Trust - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

10,001+ employees

Real Estate

About the position

The Lead Software Engineer at Northern Trust will oversee the development life-cycle of applications and services within the Mutual Funds Automation development team. This role requires a deep understanding of the applications, providing technical expertise, and ensuring the stability of both production and non-production environments. The engineer will work closely with various stakeholders to align technology solutions with business needs while actively participating in Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Obtain a detailed understanding of the applications and act as a technical expert when interfacing with teams and management.
• Provide technical expertise, training, and leadership to other staff, ensuring secure coding and robust architecture guidelines are met.
• Develop and maintain computer programs including designing, coding, testing, debugging, and installation.
• Resolve incidents/failures and ensure closure within service level agreements, performing root cause analysis and providing solutions.
• Support audit and regulatory compliance activities.
• Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to ensure solution alignment with enterprise practices.
• Contribute to strategic planning and long-range technology direction for the business unit.
• Develop technical specifications and guide development for business initiatives and technology changes.
• Evaluate and select technologies that best fit business and enterprise needs.
• Provide in-depth technical consultation to clients and IT management to assure integration of corporate business requirements.
• Work within an Agile scrum team framework, participating in sprint activities and meetings.
• Conduct feasibility studies and design system requirements for complex software projects.
• Update knowledge and skills to keep up with industry advancements.
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs and investigating problem areas.
• Ensure timely addressing of priority incidents to avoid major issues.
• Support scheduled weekend activities including production releases and disaster recovery events.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of application development experience using Java and other object-oriented technologies.
• Experience working on Cloud-based Java applications.
• Development of Java J2EE applications.
• Application integration using API, REST, and SOAP web services.
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture applications and cloud-based services, preferably PCF.
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of OAuth 2.0, Ping Federate, and Zscaler.
• Database/Stored Procedure experience preferably with DB2, Oracle >= 11g versions.
• Knowledge of code version control tools - GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, etc.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Spring, Web services, APIs such as JDBC, Hibernate, Eclipse IDE.
• Understanding of Unix Shell Scripting and Legacy platform.
• Experience in messaging gateways - Kafka, Solace, MQ.
• Cloud Computing concepts and deployment; PCF, AWS, Microsoft Azure.
• Programming analysis and design expertise with trading applications and knowledge of Capital Markets.
• Understanding of Appian low code applications.
• Working experience on SaaS products.
• Knowledge of monitoring/log aggregation APM tools like App Dynamics, Splunk, Dynatrace, ELK.
• Familiar with Linux environment and scripting.
• Understanding of Test Driven (TDD) and Behavior Driven (BDD) development.
• Understanding of Business Object or Reporting tools.
• Understanding of mainframe files and SFTP setup.

Benefits

• Flexible and collaborative work culture.
• Opportunities for career growth and movement within the organization.
• Commitment to assisting the communities served by the company.