Jobs at Northern Trust

Manages complex wealth management client relationships across fiduciary, investment, estate settlement, guardianship, and custody accounts. Coordinates account administration, client requests, transactions, documentation, issue resolution, action plans, reporting, and compliance activities. Supports advisors with account acceptance, reviews, business development, and presentations. Serves as a subject-matter expert, mentors junior employees, identifies process improvements, and may supervise daily operational work.

Manage quantitative active equity portfolios, execute trades, enhance investment alpha, and support portfolio construction, signal development, risk management, and client relationships. Collaborate with quantitative research, analytics, operations, and front- and middle-office teams to improve investment tools and processes. Apply Python, AI techniques, quantitative insights, and large-dataset analysis to portfolio management and investment strategy development.

Coordinates administration and servicing for complex fiduciary, investment management, estate settlement, guardianship, and custody accounts. Resolves client issues, manages service requests and action plans, supports account opening and compliance processes, maintains documentation and systems, identifies process improvements, and assists with client presentations and business development. Serves as a subject matter expert and mentor, and may oversee junior employees’ daily activities.

Ten-week Chicago legal internship for JD candidates interested in fiduciary and wealth management matters. Responsibilities may include reviewing trust documents, analyzing trust administration and estate settlement issues, assisting with trust and advisory compliance and risk matters, and supporting sales and marketing initiatives. Interns participate in professional development, networking, mentorship, and a capstone project.

Leads the design, modernization, and implementation of enterprise-scale cloud data platforms. Builds batch, micro-batch, real-time, and event-driven pipelines using Snowflake, Azure, Python, and Airflow/Astronomer. Develops ELT/ETL frameworks, data warehouses, data lakes, governance, monitoring, and CI/CD practices. Optimizes platform performance and cost while partnering with architects, analytics teams, product owners, and business stakeholders. Influences architecture, engineering standards, and technical strategy.

Manages complex product development and asset servicing initiatives across Product, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and client-facing teams. Responsibilities include project planning, scope management, RAID tracking, governance, budget monitoring, testing readiness, implementation, stakeholder communication, risk resolution, and transition to business-as-usual within a regulated financial services environment.

Supports the Global Multi Asset team through investment research, tactical asset allocation analysis, and portfolio and product initiatives. Creates polished presentations, marketing collateral, thought leadership, and research publications for institutional and intermediary audiences. Collaborates on Investment Policy Committee meetings, facilitates discussions, and serves as a subject matter expert on presentation development. Requires strong communication, organization, investment research, and financial analysis skills.

Manage multiple Wealth Management projects from planning through execution, governance, and completion. Responsibilities include coordinating resources, budgets, milestones, risks, dependencies, stakeholders, business cases, project plans, communications, and success metrics. The role leads working groups, resolves issues, manages competing priorities, and partners across front-office, operations, IT, risk, legal, and compliance teams.

Leads governance, strategy, risk management, and compliance for IAM automation, Digital Coworkers, and AI-enabled capabilities. Establishes policies, standards, control frameworks, approval processes, operating models, metrics, and reporting. Coordinates audits, regulatory examinations, risk assessments, exception management, and remediation. Partners with engineering, cybersecurity, architecture, risk, compliance, legal, audit, and business stakeholders while presenting recommendations to senior leadership.

Ten-week wealth management internship in Wilmington, Delaware. Responsibilities include supporting trust administration, conducting analytical research on financial markets, assisting with client investment reviews, and creating sales and marketing campaigns. Interns receive professional development, mentorship, networking, and hands-on project experience, with potential pathways to wealth management analyst roles.

Supports Northern Trust’s Enterprise Risk Identification Program by facilitating risk assessments, maintaining the enterprise risk inventory, reviewing and challenging risk data, preparing governance reporting, analyzing trends, developing dashboards, engaging stakeholders, and improving risk methodologies. The role also supports regulatory and audit inquiries, risk training, and integration with risk appetite, stress testing, scenario analysis, strategic planning, operational resilience, and AI-enabled transformation initiatives.

Supports infrastructure risk and governance with a focus on vulnerability management. Tracks vulnerabilities, prioritizes remediation using CVSS scores, coordinates fixes and exceptions, assesses control effectiveness, performs risk-based testing, prepares reporting, and collaborates with global stakeholders to strengthen the infrastructure control environment.

Leads development and technical strategy for Collibra-based data governance platforms. Responsibilities include implementing workflows, integrating Collibra with other systems through APIs, configuring and upgrading the platform, supporting data governance, monitoring production environments, and collaborating with data stewards, analysts, developers, and integration teams. The role also applies software development, cloud, DevOps, security, automation, and database practices across enterprise data platforms.

Supports business analysis initiatives by defining business needs, managing requirements, resolving scope issues, evaluating solution gaps, and developing feasible business cases. Coordinates large, cross-functional, technically complex initiatives and strategic activities while partnering with business stakeholders to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity. Requires strong communication, organizational, adaptability, business analysis, and change initiative skills.

Reviews transaction monitoring and screening alerts, investor AML documentation, periodic reviews, and investor transitions. Identifies inadequate or outdated due diligence materials, escalates complex or material issues, supports Ireland and UK AML processes, responds to partner queries, and maintains compliance with AML regulations, audit, risk, and quality standards. The role also promotes process improvements and provides accurate status updates while maintaining strong relationships with global AML teams.

Own the ServiceNow Test Management Module roadmap and govern enterprise infrastructure testing practices. The role defines testing standards, controls, quality gates, requirements, workflows, metrics, and approval processes. It partners with engineering, ServiceNow, risk, audit, and change teams to improve adoption, traceability, compliance, and operational resilience. The lead also facilitates incident reviews, drives corrective actions, and communicates testing risks and improvement opportunities to senior stakeholders.

Leads enterprise quality engineering and testing for Azure cloud platforms and cloud-native applications. Defines quality strategy, architects automation frameworks, drives continuous testing through CI/CD pipelines, establishes quality gates, and leads performance, resilience, disaster recovery, failover, and security testing. Partners with engineering, architecture, DevOps, SRE, and product teams to mitigate risks, monitors quality metrics, and mentors engineers.

The Senior Analyst delivers investment performance, compliance, private equity monitoring, or risk analytics services for institutional clients. Responsibilities include completing accurate and timely deliverables, meeting service-level agreements, resolving complex issues and root causes, maintaining process and client data, reviewing analyst work, mentoring new hires, communicating procedure updates, managing stakeholder relationships, and leading process improvements. The role requires capital markets knowledge, financial applications expertise, Excel proficiency, and willingness to work night shifts in Bangalore or Pune.

Monitors and processes capital markets operations activities, transactions, requests, and issues. Performs reconciliations, reviews, and control activities to ensure accuracy and compliance with procedures. Communicates with stakeholders, supports workflow coordination, mentors junior employees, and helps improve operational processes, controls, and documentation. Handles complex activities with significant business or client impact and may serve as a subject matter resource.

Reviews investor documentation for AML compliance, identifies outstanding due diligence, resolves complex issues, responds to partner queries, and supports Ireland and UK AML processes. The role maintains regulatory knowledge, ensures audit and risk standards, communicates with international teams, escalates material issues, and contributes to process improvements. It also requires coordination with colleagues across Bangalore, Pune, and Ireland, along with flexibility for shifts and extended hours.