Lead, Application Security Engineering

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.

The Lead, Application Security Engineering will help engineer, run, and continuously improve the technical capabilities that support Northern Trust’s Application Security program. 

This is a hands-on engineering role responsible for improving security platforms, integrations, automation, developer workflows, reliability, and technical service delivery. The role will solve complex engineering problems while developing reusable technical patterns and automation that enable Application Security capabilities to scale. 

Prior Application Security experience is not required. The successful candidate will bring strong enterprise engineering experience and the ability to improve complex technical capabilities across systems and teams. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Engineer and improve Application Security platforms, integrations, automation, and technical workflows. 

• Design and enhance integrations across source control, CI/CD, security, cloud, workflow, and enterprise technology platforms. 

• Troubleshoot complex technical failures and improve capability reliability, observability, recovery, and scalability. 

• Automate repeatable technical work as workflows become sufficiently understood, while developing reusable engineering patterns and technical documentation. 

• Provide hands-on technical leadership and partner with engineering teams, technology partners, and vendors to improve Application Security delivery. 

Required Qualifications 

• Hands-on experience engineering, integrating, or supporting complex enterprise software, platform, infrastructure, DevSecOps, security, or comparable technical capabilities. 

• Experience building integrations or automation using APIs, scripting, workflow technologies, software development, or comparable engineering methods. 

• Experience solving complex technical problems across CI/CD, source control, developer tooling, cloud services, enterprise platforms, or comparable software-delivery environments. 

Experience and Education 

• Eight or more years of relevant professional experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, infrastructure engineering, security engineering, systems integration, or a related technical discipline. 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience integrating security testing, security controls, or other technical services into software-delivery and developer workflows. 

• Experience with enterprise platforms such as GitHub, Checkmarx, ServiceNow, cloud technologies, or comparable development, workflow, and security technologies. 

• Experience improving technical capabilities through automation, observability, reliability engineering, or transition from manually intensive or vendor-supported delivery. 

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.

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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com, or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.