Specialist, Applications

Job Description

About Northern Trust: Northern Trust is a Chicago-based bank with more than 20 international locations and 16,500 employees. From sovereign wealth funds to the wealthiest individuals and families, the world s most sophisticated clients rely on Northern Trust every day. The Northern Trust Corporate & Institutional Services (C&IS) Organization supports a range of end-to-end middle and back office processes that service asset managers and asset owners across the Trade Settlement, Fund Administration, Custody Accounting & Administration and Prime Services. Our leading technology solutions enable businesses to drive growth, improve client and employee experiences, and protect confidential data.The C&IS Technology Department is looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic, nimble, and pragmatic individual with a digital mindset to join our team as a Lead Software Engineer.Responsibilities:As an engineer within our team, you will be responsible for collaborating with business stakeholders and writing quality, accurate, testable code along with the right architecture. You will work with a geographically dispersed, agile team to effectively translate requirements into solutions and seamlessly interface with business partners and technical staff. We are looking for an individual that has experience in the full stack, front to back architecture and engineering of an application with a passion for growing skills as well as solving complex and challenging problems. Aside from core programming, in this role you will work with the business stakeholders, and product management to match technical solutions to business needs as well as work with others to mentor and grow other programmers.Key Knowledge and Skills:BS in Computer Science or higher as well as related field of study or equivalent experience 16 + years of professional experience in software development Extensive DevOps experience developing and delivering products in a collaborative, agile team environment Extensive knowledge of Java, Java web applications, and modern Spring Frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Services, Spring Security, etc.) Strong understanding of Object Oriented technology and standard Java development frameworks, including OOD and OOP skills Strong Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) using Bamboo, Jenkins, Concourse or other CI/CD tool Strong understanding of RDBMS / NOSQL databases concepts. Strong Experience with extreme programming (XP) practices (TDD/BDD, CI/CD, paired programming, etc.) Strong Experience with modern web application frameworks (AngularJS, ReactJS, Drupal, etc.) Strong Experience in using IDEs like Eclipse 3.x, IntelliJ IDEA Strong Experience with creating technical solutions that are pragmatic and align to business needs Strong collaboration, communication, and coaching skills; ability to navigate social and political issues inside the organization Ability to solve complex technical problems Preferred Knowledge and Skills:Experience working with microservice architectures and 12-factor cloud native principles Experience with Javascript and XQuery Experience with messaging tools like RabbitMQ, kafka, MQ and Solace Experience with Mocking and testing frameworks Experience with Jackson libraries for XML/JSON Experience with Version control System like GIT Experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) Experience implementing a role-based security model and configure permissions and privileges Experience developing enterprise applications that support high traffic volumes Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (PCF, AWS, Azure, GCP) Experience with MarkLogic and XQuery Experience with Kotlin Practical understanding of Domain Driven Design concepts Mentor and grow other software engineersAdditional Information,

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