Key Responsibilities

Compliance Surveillance Technology Ownership

• Serve as a technical lead for eCommunication Surveillance, Trade Surveillance, and Employee Ethics Monitoring platforms, supporting enterprise compliance, conduct risk, and regulatory obligations.
• Partner with Compliance Technology Managers, Engineering Leads, and Compliance stakeholders to deliver strategic surveillance technology capabilities and platform enhancements.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple surveillance initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Lead solution design reviews and technology assessments for new surveillance use cases, data sources, and regulatory requirements.

AI, Machine Learning & Emerging Technologies

• Evaluate and implement emerging AI and Machine Learning capabilities to improve detection, monitoring, alert generation, risk scoring, and investigative workflows.
• Stay current on industry trends related to AI-driven surveillance, behavioral analytics, communication monitoring, and anomaly detection.
• Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to assess innovative surveillance capabilities and rapidly validate value through proofs of concept (POCs) and pilot programs.
• Drive the adoption of advanced analytics and data science capabilities within surveillance platforms while ensuring governance and explainability requirements are met.
• Assess AI model performance, data lineage, model governance considerations, and operational controls impacting regulatory compliance.

Platform Integration & Vendor Management

• Lead integration efforts across surveillance platforms including solutions such as Global Relay, TradingHub, ACA, and other compliance technology providers.
• Design scalable integration patterns supporting structured and unstructured data ingestion from enterprise sources.
• Collaborate with SaaS vendors to onboard new capabilities, define integration requirements, troubleshoot implementation challenges, and optimize platform performance.
• Support vendor evaluations, product assessments, RFP activities, roadmap reviews, and technical due diligence efforts.
• Establish technical standards for vendor connectivity, API integration, data exchange, monitoring, and operational support.

Architecture, Data & Security

• Design secure and scalable architecture patterns supporting enterprise surveillance platforms and associated data ecosystems.
• Partner with enterprise architecture teams to define data integration strategies leveraging data mesh, event-driven architecture, APIs, and cloud-native services.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise security standards, including encryption, key management, data masking, access controls, and secure transmission protocols.
• Evaluate architecture impacts related to SaaS deployments, third-party hosting models, cloud security requirements, and regulatory data protection obligations.
• Support data retention, legal hold, records management, and audit requirements across surveillance platforms.
• Define technical patterns supporting high-volume data ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and reporting capabilities.

Data Quality, Reporting & Governance

• Establish data quality frameworks, reconciliation processes, and monitoring controls to ensure integrity of surveillance datasets.
• Partner with Compliance and Risk teams to define data governance standards, metadata requirements, lineage tracking, and quality metrics.
• Develop reporting and monitoring capabilities supporting management oversight, regulatory examinations, audits, and operational governance.
• Support production issue management, root cause analysis, remediation planning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure surveillance data platforms maintain complete, accurate, timely, and auditable records.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Lead technical delivery efforts from concept through production deployment, coordinating across engineering, infrastructure, security, and compliance stakeholders.
• Facilitate rapid prototyping and POC execution to evaluate emerging technologies and vendor capabilities.
• Create and maintain technology roadmaps, technical documentation, architecture artifacts, operational procedures, and implementation standards.
• Support governance forums, architecture review boards, risk assessments, and audit activities.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership to development teams supporting surveillance technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, integration, or solution architecture experience.
• Experience supporting Compliance, Regulatory, Surveillance, AML, Conduct Risk, Trade Monitoring, or Communications Monitoring platforms.
• Hands-on experience integrating platforms such as Global Relay, TradingHub, ACA, Smarsh, NICE Actimize, Behavox, or similar compliance technologies.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, advanced analytics, anomaly detection, and surveillance use cases.
• Experience with SaaS integration architectures, APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud technologies, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Strong knowledge of data security, encryption standards, key management, access controls, and data privacy requirements.
• Experience with enterprise data governance, data mesh architectures, data quality management, and reporting frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management and vendor relationship management skills.

Leadership Expectations

• Acts as a trusted technical advisor to Compliance Technology leadership.
• Drives innovation through practical application of AI, ML, and modern surveillance technologies.
• Balances rapid innovation with governance, security, auditability, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Influences technology direction and vendor strategy across compliance surveillance platforms.
• Provides thought leadership on emerging surveillance technologies, regulatory trends, and industry best practices.

Salary Range:

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.