Senior Director Software Development

Looking For: Seasoned, multi-disciplinary technology leader with deep alternative investments domain knowledge and broad functional expertise. Duties include: Partner with business stakeholders to design end-to-end platforms, defining components and interactions that support the target operating model. Provide strategic direction across technology teams, aligning execution with enterprise goals and influencing senior leadership on outcomes.

Translate business strategy into technology outcomes by surfacing cross-functional concerns, synthesizing inputs, and building consensus on solutions. Build, develop, and organize teams to drive program-level initiatives. Manage multiple units or functions through managers and technical leads, overseeing project planning, status reporting, specifications, and implementation for major software solutions.

Mentor and develop less-senior leaders through coaching and structured growth opportunities. Deliver value iteratively and with a sense of urgency. Lead capability technology delivery across multiple teams of developers, quality assurance, support and change management technology experts.

Set performance standards; run performance management; identify training and development needs; and build management capability for advanced leadership roles. Manage vendor relationships to ensure outcomes (quality, performance, and scalability) meet business demands. Define and govern technical architectures (security, observability, scalability, reliability, and recovery) and ensure compliance.

Ensure compliance with audit requirements, including change control procedures and data security. Improve technology team effectiveness and productivity, and identify opportunities to help business teams do the same. Experience: Demonstrate in-depth functional industry knowledge of alternative investment financial services.

Demonstrate 10+ years of success designing and building enterprise-level applications, including complex data architectures, in a highly regulated environment (e.g., financial services). Demonstrate 10+ years of progressive responsibility leading technical teams (e.g., developers, data engineers, business analysts, quality assurance, and production support). Demonstrate understanding of data shape and context design to enable efficient and effective AI/LLM usage.

Demonstrate strong understanding of modern data storage architectures and data modeling. Demonstrate knowledge of microservices architecture, cloud-native development, CI/CD, and automated builds. Demonstrate understanding of modern security architectures, including implementing secure applications and protecting PII and HSI in public cloud environments.

Demonstrate understanding of financial markets and financial instrument types. Demonstrate experience with Agile project methodology and collaboration. Show strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Communicate effectively in writing and verbally, including with senior executive management. Adapt quickly and effectively to change. Education: B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline required; M.S. preferred.

Applicants 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) Salary Range USD 205,700 – 360,100. Salary 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. Reasonable accommodation Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.

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