• Lead end-to-end execution: Own planning, architecture alignment, engineering delivery, testing, release readiness, production launch, and post-production stabilization for a portfolio of strategic initiatives.
• Drive multi-platform delivery: Provide leadership across Azure Cloud services, web application ecosystems, Salesforce capabilities and integrations, and payment processing platforms.
• Translate strategy into outcomes: Partner with product, business, architecture, security, risk, operations, and infrastructure leaders to convert priorities into roadmaps, executable plans, and measurable results.
• Strengthen engineering excellence: Champion scalable architecture, secure coding, automation, CI/CD, observability, performance engineering, reliability, and disciplined software development lifecycle practices.
• Build high-performing teams: Recruit, develop, coach, and retain engineers; establish clear expectations, empower decision-making, and create succession and capability-development plans.
• Coordinate globally: Align teams, vendors, dependencies, and stakeholders across multiple geographies and time zones, ensuring clear ownership, effective handoffs, and timely escalation of risks and decisions.
• Manage delivery health: Establish transparent governance for scope, schedule, quality, budget, capacity, dependencies, risks, and technical debt; use metrics to guide decisions and continuous improvement.
• Own operational outcomes: Ensure platforms meet availability, resilience, security, compliance, recovery, and support expectations; lead effective incident response and root-cause remediation.
• Influence technology direction: Evaluate emerging technologies, guide build-versus-buy decisions, and shape modernization plans that balance innovation, maintainability, cost, and risk.
• Communicate with impact: Provide concise, data-driven updates to senior leaders and stakeholders, surfacing trade-offs and enabling timely decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven technology delivery experience, including significant experience leading engineering teams across multiple projects/initiatives in parallel.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex, enterprise-scale programs from concept through production and ongoing operations.
• Strong working knowledge of Azure Cloud architecture and services, cloud-native design, integration patterns, APIs, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience overseeing modern web application delivery, including front-end, back-end, security, performance, accessibility, and production support considerations.
• Experience with Salesforce platforms, custom development, integrations, release management, and governance.
• Experience with payment ecosystems, including transaction flows, integrations, reconciliation, resiliency, security, and regulatory or control requirements.
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, resolve cross-team dependencies, and lead distributed teams across geographies.
• Strong financial, vendor, resource, risk, and change-management capabilities.
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and decision-making skills.

Working with Us

As 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.

Philanthropy 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.