Sr Lead, SW Eng

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.

Role: Senior Lead Software Engineer

About Private Passport at Northern Trust:

Private Passport is an application that has been built to deliver key self-service capabilities like balance inquiries, transaction history, mobile deposit capture, and basic document handling. There is a shift from supporting a "self-service" model into a "service excellence" model for all its clients. The application provides the tools to its users to perform both investment and banking tasks. Exciting changes are forecasted for this application to provide intelligence and improved reporting to assist our customers in their investment choices.

Job Description:

• Responsible for leading, designing, developing, testing, and deploying software solutions for Private Passport Accounts pages.
• Propose new designs and modify existing ones to continuously improve performance, functionality, and stability of the system.
• Partner with business leaders and business unit partners to define priorities and deliver custom solutions to solve business problems or address business needs.
• Must be competent to work at the highest technical level of all phases of system design and implementation.
• Provides comprehensive consultation to Business Unit and IT management and staff at the highest technical level on all phases of the project development cycle.
• Provide technical expertise to support and enhance the Private Passport application.
• Provides leadership and guidance to staff, fostering an environment that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and communication.
• Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise. Financial Services experience preferred.
• Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues.
• Overall experience Level: (8-10 yrs)

Qualifications:

• A BS degree in Computer Science or related Computer Engineering or Science curriculum is required.
• At least 8-10 years of professional development experience with significant exposure to working on complex projects with cross-functional teams.
• Strong programming skills in Javascript, React.js, Typescript, Node.js – 5 years minimum.
• Must have proven experience building external facing friendly websites (Includes mobile) using JavaScript frameworks.
• Server-side programming experience with automation and backend support preferred.
• Some SQL skills for developing and optimizing complex stored procedures desirable.
• Experience with agile project methodology and collaboration in Jira/ADO.
• Excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment and management skills, and the ability to work effectively with client and IT management and staff required.
• Skills in working with Opensource technologies, Database technologies, micro service architecture, cloud-native development, continuous build, continuous integration, and continuous deployment desirable.
• Ability to work effectively with end users to define requirements.
• Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Business Unit's goals, resources needed, and to assess and develop the skills of staff.
• Experience in Domain Driven Design desirable.
• Experience with continuous integration and collaboration tools like JIRA, ADO, Bitbucket, GitHub, and Confluence.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Experience in architecting web applications.
• Establishing Team Programming/Design Patterns.
• Establishing Code Testing strategies.
• Atomic Design Integration.
• Lead Level experience leading a team of developers.
• Working with Product Owners and Web Designers to establish roadmaps and work in progress.
• Developing new greenfield and brownfield products using ReactJS.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Responsible for efficiently working with other teams in the organization to help them leverage the micro-FE framework/components library in their quest to modernize their applications.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Facilitate code reviews.
• Ability to debug and resolve defects and solution complex issues.

Should Have:

• TypeScript.
• Storybook Experience.
• Redux or other state management libraries in the React ecosystem.
• Data visualization experience.
• Good sense of UI/UX design.
• Experience with a code style guide (we use the Airbnb style guide).
• Experience working with databases (relational, document, etc.) and writing SQL.
• Experience writing automated tests (e.g., Mocha, Jest, Enzyme, etc.).
• Knowledge of web application security ( Content Security Policy, OWASP, etc.).
• Knowledge of Webpack or similar module bundler.

Secondary Skills:

• Highly motivated, self-directed and possesses solid execution skills.
• Demonstrates critical thinking and probes beyond the surface of the requested data to get at the valuable (actionable) information.
• Able to understand complex technical concepts quickly.
• Detail-oriented but understands broader impacts of requests.
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities as necessary.
• Manages multiple tasks and deliverables simultaneously and in an organized and results-oriented manner.
• Strives to proactively identify and address areas where business process efficiency and effectiveness improvements would make a positive impact on the top and bottom lines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Possesses a strong analytical, quantitative, and objective outlook.
• Excellent people skills are also necessary since this position interacts with all levels of resources across the entire organization.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability emboldens us to explore new ideas. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today.

Reasonable Accommodation:

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people. Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.