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.
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Lead Full Stack Developer to provide technical leadership and deliver secure, resilient, and scalable digital solutions for the financial services industry. This role combines hands-on engineering with architecture, delivery leadership, and team mentorship. The successful candidate will guide the development of cloud-native applications using Java, Spring Boot, Microsoft Azure, and React.js while ensuring solutions meet demanding standards for performance, availability, security, auditability, and regulatory compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design, development, testing, deployment, and support of enterprise-grade full stack applications.
- Define solution architecture and engineering standards for Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices, React.js, and Azure-based platforms.
- Translate business and product requirements into maintainable technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Develop high-quality backend services and responsive user interfaces, contributing directly to complex or critical features.
- Design secure integrations with internal platforms, third-party providers, data services, and financial systems.
- Drive cloud-native engineering using appropriate Azure compute, data, messaging, identity, monitoring, and deployment capabilities.
- Establish and enforce coding, API, testing, observability, resiliency, and documentation standards.
- Lead design reviews, code reviews, performance tuning, defect resolution, and production-readiness assessments.
- Champion DevSecOps practices, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and secure software supply-chain controls.
- Partner with product owners, architects, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, infrastructure, data, and operations teams.
- Mentor engineers, support technical growth, delegate effectively, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
- Provide technical leadership during production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and ensure sustainable corrective actions.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading the design and delivery of complex enterprise applications.
- Advanced proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, including microservices, REST APIs, data access, security, concurrency, error handling, and performance optimization.
- Strong hands-on experience with React.js, JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based design, state management, responsive interfaces, and frontend testing.
- Proven experience designing and delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure, including secure cloud architecture, deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, transactions, and performance tuning; familiarity with NoSQL patterns is beneficial.
- Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging, caching, API gateways, and distributed-system design patterns.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and privacy controls.
- Experience with Git-based development, CI/CD pipelines, automated unit and integration testing, artifact management, and production release practices.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions, influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience with Azure services such as App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Key Vault, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage, Application Insights, and Azure Monitor.
- Experience with containers, Azure Container Apps (ACA), Docker, Terraform or Bicep, and cloud configuration management.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of domain-driven design, test-driven development, contract testing, feature flags, blue-green or canary deployment, and site reliability engineering practices.
- Familiarity with financial controls and expectations related to data protection, audit trails, segregation of duties, operational resilience, and change governance.
- Experience in banking, payments, wealth management domain.
- Experience modernizing legacy applications and incrementally migrating workloads to cloud-native architectures.
- Azure, Java, architecture, security, or agile delivery certifications.
Leadership Competencies
- Technical judgment: balances strategic architecture with pragmatic delivery.
- Ownership: takes accountability for quality, risk, reliability, and business outcomes.
- Collaboration: builds alignment across engineering, product, architecture, operations, and control functions.
- Communication: explains complex technical decisions clearly and documents them effectively.
- Coaching: raises team capability through mentorship, feedback, and strong engineering practices.
- Continuous improvement: uses metrics, incident learning, and customer feedback to improve systems and delivery.
Salary Range:
$114,500 - 194,700 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading complex enterprise application design and delivery.
- Advanced proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, including microservices, REST APIs, data access, security, concurrency, error handling, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with React.js, JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based design, state management, responsive interfaces, and frontend testing.
- Experience designing and delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure, including secure cloud architecture, deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, transactions, and performance tuning.
- Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging, caching, API gateways, and distributed-system design patterns.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and privacy controls.
- Experience with Git-based development, CI/CD pipelines, automated unit and integration testing, artifact management, and production release practices.
- Experience with Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Key Vault, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage, Application Insights, and Azure Monitor.
- Experience with containers, Azure Container Apps, Docker, Terraform or Bicep, and cloud configuration management.
- Knowledge of domain-driven design, test-driven development, contract testing, feature flags, blue-green or canary deployment, and site reliability engineering practices.
- Familiarity with financial controls related to data protection, audit trails, segregation of duties, operational resilience, and change governance.
- Experience in banking, payments, or wealth management.
- Experience modernizing legacy applications and migrating workloads to cloud-native architectures.
- Azure, Java, architecture, security, or agile delivery certifications.
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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