Compliance SW Engineer

Northern Trust

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$99,600–$169,200 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
70 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

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This role pays less than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $144,237–$214,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $134k versus about $179k for comparable roles.

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About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management

Northern Trust currently has 107 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $114,500–$194,700 across 77 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Compliance SW Engineer

The Compliance SW Engg serves as a technical lead for eCommunication Surveillance, Trade Surveillance, and Employee Ethics Monitoring platforms to support enterprise compliance and regulatory obligations. This role involves leading solution designs, evaluating AI and Machine Learning capabilities for anomaly detection, and managing integrations with vendors like Global Relay, TradingHub, and ACA. The engineer will build scalable architecture patterns using APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native services while ensuring data security through encryption and access controls. Key responsibilities include establishing data quality frameworks, managing data lineage, and overseeing high-volume data ingestion and normalization. The position requires expertise in software engineering, SaaS integration, and data mesh architectures to solve complex problems related to conduct risk, trade monitoring, and automated investigative workflows within a regulated financial environment.

What you'll do

  • Serve as the technical lead for eCommunication, Trade, and Employee Ethics Monitoring platforms.
  • Lead solution design reviews and technology assessments for new surveillance use cases and regulatory requirements.
  • Implement AI and Machine Learning capabilities to improve detection, risk scoring, and investigative workflows.
  • Manage integrations with SaaS vendors and internal platforms for structured and unstructured data ingestion.
  • Design secure, scalable architecture patterns for surveillance platforms using cloud-native services and APIs.
  • Establish data quality frameworks, reconciliation processes, and metadata requirements to ensure dataset integrity.
  • Lead technical delivery from concept to production while coordinating with engineering, security, and compliance teams.
  • Create technology roadmaps, technical documentation, and operational procedures for surveillance technologies.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering, integration, or solution architecture experience (preferred).
  • Experience supporting Compliance, Regulatory, Surveillance, AML, Conduct Risk, Trade Monitoring, or Communications Monitoring platforms (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience integrating platforms such as Global Relay, TradingHub, ACA, Smarsh, NICE Actimize, Behavox, or similar technologies (preferred).
  • Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, advanced analytics, anomaly detection, and surveillance use cases (preferred).
  • Experience with SaaS integration architectures, APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud technologies, and enterprise integration platforms (preferred).
  • Strong knowledge of data security, encryption standards, key management, access controls, and data privacy requirements (preferred).
  • Experience with enterprise data governance, data mesh architectures, data quality management, and reporting frameworks (preferred).
  • Work Authorization.

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