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 ‘Director – Application Development’ role is a key position within Northern Trust’s Shared Services Application group with responsibility for managing large scale strategic programs. Emphasis will be placed on candidate’s ability to manage operations, mature the governance model, achieving tactical &  strategic priorities and enforcing effective risk management across multiple programs. The successful individual will build and maintain vital relationships with all facets of Business and Technology organizations.
 

Principal Responsibilities:

Leadership and Management
 

Provide strategic thinking, thought leadership, and guidance on identifying key risks and assessing the design and operating effectiveness of controls supporting applications and large programs.Plan, oversee and direct the activities of Technology division to achieve the organization objectives, and for timely reporting on test, control, audit and regulatory matters to executive management.Show integrity and a risk minded approach to challenges and a sustained drive to ensure completion of objectives.Establish strong working relationships and communications with key stakeholders globally.

Operational

Ensure that the Technology organization is enabled to meet their objectives, including internal and external requirements. Manage global staff to ensure day-to-day technology operations are effective.Develop and review periodic metrics and ensure key messages are communicated to stakeholders across all technology and business areas.Show the ability to communicate complex problems into a simplified way, that would then support a discussion with senior management/stakeholders.Conduct and/or manage special projects and ad hoc requests to support the senior leadership team.Work closely with the business continuity management and risk partners to ensure a unified approach to resiliency across the organization.

Requirements

Skills

15+ years experience in Application development domain.5+ years of experience managing multiple Technology Application development teams, preferably in a Director role.Solid understanding of financial services technology landscape, preferably in Corporate Action & Income processing domain.Extensive experience in planning and execution of large scale Technology Development Programs.Experience interfacing at executive level to represent and support technology initiatives/goals.Experience managing multiple vendor resources/contracts in support of program objectives.Experience managing applications ranging from legacy Mainframe, vended applications & Cloud based technologies (Azure, PCF).

Competencies

Highly motivated, self-starter who deals well with ambiguity and can drive execution across an organization.Ability to develop a strategic plan and drive through strategic & tactical deliverables.Strong critical thinking, analytical, leadership and organizational skills with ability to quickly grasp issues & solve problemsProven ability to build relationships, influence and motivate teams across the organization in order to ensure that the slate of work is established, understood, supported and completed.Monitor and/or deliver on key audits, remediation or regulatory requirements.Ability to challenge and influence stakeholders of differing viewpoints to reach consensus.Ability to gather and interpret data and information in different forms and / or states of maturity, and synthesize into a clear message.Ability to establish executable work plans and establish KPIs/KPIs to measure success of the organization.

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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

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.