Sr Manager WM Data Platform Engineering

Company:  Northern Trust
Location: Chicago
Closing Date: 03/11/2024
Salary: £100 - £125 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

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.

The WM Data Platform is going through an extensive Data Modernization moving from On-prem infrastructure to Cloud Technologies for both Self-Serve Analytics and operational runtime needs. The shared data platform needs to be equipped with self-service capabilities and automated infrastructure operations to enhance data engineer experience and organizational efficiency.

We're seeking a Sr Manager for the Platform Engineering Team, that continues to build and own reusable frameworks and patterns for secondary encryption, test data mgmt/ refresh/ automation, data ingestion patterns, IaaC scripts etc. The end goal is to create a data platform as a product for internal data engineers, who can use the capabilities provided to create Data Products for consumption by the other applications/ teams/ data scientists.

Your daily work will involve:

  • Partnering with lead of data engineering, solution architects and engineers to understand gaps in the data platform and looking for automation opportunities
  • Ensuring there are robust patterns and frameworks established for data ingestion, consumption
  • Providing engineering leadership and oversight to the On prem Oracle DBAs, Cloud Engineers and DevOps engineers to ensure
    • The data platform is scalable for large amounts of data ingestion and processing without service degradation
    • Processes are built for monitoring and optimizing performance
    • Implement Chaos Engineering practices and measures that allow the end-to-end infrastructure to function as expected, even if individual components fail
    • Test Data Management and Refresh patterns are in place and established for on demand and scheduled refreshes
    • Data masking is in place in all non-production environments using enterprise tools and partnering with other enterprise teams / groups
    • Team maintains robust data and devOps pipelines build and engineered in partnership with the data engineering squads/ teams
  • Partnering with other peers on actively providing input and helping execute on the data modernization efforts
  • Engaging in high level break/fix support during disaster recovery scenarios and assists with Production issues when higher level analysis is required.
  • Woking closely with architects and other enterprise stakeholders to ensure solution alignment with best enterprise practices.
  • You will also be responsible for:
    • Performance management of the staff and maximizing the effectiveness by building strong team/technical competencies.
    • Recruiting, developing and mentoring high performing and diverse teams across various workgroups. Promote teamwork in problem resolution. Foster an environment of open discussion,
    • Ensuring adherence to organizational policies, guidelines and processes

You must have:

  • Demonstrated leadership and cross functional collaboration experience
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Strong organizational and facilitation skills
    • Ability to work under pressure and to prioritize tasks
    • Ability to attract and retain top talent
  • Expertise in designing lakehouse/ data solutions on Azure/ Snowflake
  • Experience in configuration, maintenance and optimization of on prem and cloud data solutions (Oracle, Marklogic, Data Stage, Azure ADLS/ Synapse), Cloud Infrastructure and Data Workloads
  • Extensive knowledge of application development and support processes, usually having experience with multiple system technologies.
  • Hands on Technical experience with various Data Product development tools, utilities, and frameworks such as Azure Delta Lake/ Synapse, Snowflake, Databrick, IBM DataStage, Informatica, Oracle PL/SQL, and Master Data concepts. Additional application development utilizes Java Spring Frameworks, server-side JavaScript, and NoSQL data utilities
  • Ability to read data models and explain data Entity-Relationships to ETL developers, python and java developers.
  • Strong domain knowledge and experience working with a wide range of Financial Services / Wealth Management technology platforms.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that 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. #MadeForGreater

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.

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