Jobs at Northern Trust

Provides Level 2 production application support for the Omnium platform, including monitoring, incident resolution, root cause analysis, client and data-feed onboarding, FTP configuration, batch processing, releases, and production deployments. The role coordinates major incidents, supports reconciliation and data workflows, partners with development and infrastructure teams, maintains operational dashboards, and drives automation and service improvements.

Provides technology risk advisory and control assessment support for ITSM processes, including Incident, Change, and Problem Management. Evaluates control design and operating effectiveness, identifies gaps, documents evidence in ServiceNow IRM, advises on risk treatment, supports issue escalation, and contributes to audit, RCSA, and regulatory readiness. Analyzes recurring weaknesses, communicates findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and helps improve ITSM control frameworks.

Improves business operations through process analysis, automation, reporting, and workflow enhancement. Develops business insights and scalable solutions for financial performance, workforce planning, sales, and operational metrics. Partners with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into reporting and automation solutions, strengthen governance and controls, maintain documentation, and support recurring reviews, projects, and business priorities.

Supports securities lending trade settlement and collateral operations for institutional clients. Ensures adequate collateral, coordinates with borrowers, tri-party agents, trading desks, and internal teams, manages risk and controls, resolves complex issues, maintains MIS data, supports training, and contributes to process improvements and division-level projects. The role requires securities lending lifecycle knowledge, asset servicing experience, strong communication, attention to detail, and flexibility to work rotational shifts.

Supports securities lending trade settlement and collateral management for global clients. Ensures adequate collateral, coordinates with brokers, borrowers, tri-party agents, and internal teams, and manages risk and control activities. Resolves complex operational issues, maintains MIS data, supports quality checks, trains staff, contributes to process improvements, and participates in division-level projects. Requires knowledge of securities lending, asset servicing, settlements, collateral management, and related operational systems.

Designs and maintains scalable Azure data pipelines, ETL processes, integrations, and data models supporting Procurement modernization. Uses Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, Azure SQL, Functions, Terraform, SQL, and Python. Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders, optimizes performance and cost, implements security controls, troubleshoots production issues, documents architecture, and contributes to testing, deployments, and code reviews.

Leads the Wealth Management AML Client Risk Framework Review Team, overseeing people management, AML/KYC operations, client reviews, transaction monitoring, due diligence, controls, operational risk, quality, audits, stakeholder engagement, and process improvement. The role manages service delivery, regulatory compliance, team performance, transitions, automation, and strategic change while providing technical leadership on complex client and entity structures.

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.