Seasoned, multi-disciplinary technology leader with deep alternative investments domain knowledge and broad functional expertise.

• 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.

• 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.

B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline required; M.S. preferred.

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.