About Northern Trust
As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.
Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.
With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
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:
$99,600 - 169,200 USDSalary 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.
Work Authorization
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).
Working with Us
As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.
Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.
Reasonable Accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected], or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.
Skills Required
- 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 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
- 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
- Authorized to work in the U.S. without employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future
Northern Trust Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Northern Trust and has not been reviewed or approved by Northern Trust.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match alongside an employer‑funded defined‑benefit pension is highlighted in employer‑verified materials and filings, setting the retirement package apart from many private employers.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is portrayed as solid overall, and two paid volunteer days per year are clearly documented across corporate materials.
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Parental & Family Support — Company sources and postings reference paid parental and caregiver leave and recent enhancements to parental benefits, indicating meaningful family support within the package.
Northern Trust Insights
What We Do
As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing and investment solutions, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise and integrity. A globally recognized Fortune 500 Company in continuous operation since 1889, we’ve built a legacy of empowering clients to reach their goals with confidence. Since our roots as a trust bank, we’ve grown to a global presence with more than 24,000 employees in more than 20 countries and across six core business units: Wealth Management Asset Management Asset Servicing Technology Corporate Functions Enterprise Operations Join a Team That’s Achieving Greater At Northern Trust, we refer to our employees as partners – with good reason. We understand that relationships are the key to our success. Here you’ll join a diverse and inclusive team of innovators with the drive to challenge the way things have always been done. Instead of choosing between a dynamic career and work-life balance, enjoy working with a team that supports your goals in the office and at home. We’ll help you get where you want to go without sacrificing what matters most to you. Delivering value and adhering to our enduring principles What are enduring principles? Since our founding, they have guided our strategy and success. Thanks to the dedication of our partners, Northern Trust continues to thrive by adhering to three enduring principles: service, expertise and integrity . What does this mean? Service Northern Trust has a relentless drive to provide exceptional service to our clients, our partners and our communities. We set new standards and go above and beyond in our commitment to delivering greater results. Expertise Expertise is at the core of who we are. We focus sharply on what we do well. From expanding our capabilities, to hiring talented professionals to developing innovative solutions, our expertise is why we continue to be a trusted advisor for generations of families and institutions. Integrity Operating with uncompromising ethics is central to Northern Trust’s heritage. As a result, our clients, partners and communities know they can rely on us. For more than 130 years, our integrity has been our guide – and that will never change.
Why Work With Us
At Northern Trust, we go further because we go together. We embrace flexibility, encourage balance, and prioritize inclusion at all levels, working together to keep you connected. We are committed to our employees—all 24,000 of them. Whether this is a first step or a bold new leap in your career, we’re here to help you move forward.
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