Compliance Software Engineer

Northern Trust

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$99,600–$169,200 / yr
Posted
23 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $165k
This role $134k
$88k most similar roles pay here $208k

This role pays less than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $134,400–$196,437 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $134k versus about $165k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 48 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $114,500–$194,700 across 43 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Compliance Software Engineer

As a Compliance SW Engg, you will serve as a technical lead for eCommunication Surveillance, Trade Surveillance, and Employee Ethics Monitoring platforms to support enterprise compliance and regulatory obligations. You will design scalable architecture patterns, manage vendor integrations with providers like Global Relay and TradingHub, and oversee data ingestion from diverse sources. The role involves evaluating and implementing AI and Machine Learning capabilities to improve detection, risk scoring, and investigative workflows while ensuring governance and explainability. You will work with cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven architectures, and data mesh strategies to ensure secure, resilient systems. Key responsibilities include establishing data quality frameworks, managing technical roadmaps, and leading solution design reviews. This role addresses the critical business problem of maintaining auditable records and robust monitoring for conduct risk and regulatory compliance within a complex financial environment.

What you'll do

  • Serve as the technical lead for eCommunication, Trade Surveillance, and Employee Ethics Monitoring platforms.
  • Evaluate and implement AI and Machine Learning capabilities to improve detection, risk scoring, and investigative workflows.
  • Design secure, scalable architecture patterns for data ingestion, integration, and cloud-native surveillance services.
  • Manage vendor relationships by leading integrations, conducting technical due diligence, and overseeing platform performance.
  • Establish data quality frameworks, reconciliation processes, and governance standards for compliance datasets.
  • Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of projects from initial concept through production deployment.
  • Create and maintain technology roadmaps, architectural artifacts, and operational documentation for surveillance systems.

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 compliance technologies such as Global Relay, TradingHub, ACA, Smarsh, NICE Actimize, Behavox, or similar (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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