Senior Lead SW Full Stack Engineer

Northern Trust

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$114,500–$194,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
12 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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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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TL;DR · Senior Lead SW Full Stack Engineer

The Sr Lead, SW Full Stack Eng joins the engineering team to lead the architecture, design, and implementation of data engineering solutions. This role involves driving Oracle modernization and migration initiatives, including data movement, ETL/ELT, and cloud-based data platforms. The individual will build and support scalable data pipelines, APIs, and near real-time data synchronization solutions while mentoring engineers and establishing best practices. Key technologies include Oracle, Snowflake, Azure, Astronomer Airflow, Kafka, MQ, and Unix Shell Scripting. The position requires expertise in database design, performance tuning, and data modeling to solve complex data integration problems. The work focuses on migrating legacy systems to modern data architectures, ensuring operational excellence, and delivering high-quality reporting and analytics solutions within a financial services context.

What you'll do

  • Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of data engineering solutions using Oracle, Snowflake, and Azure.
  • Drive Oracle modernization and migration initiatives including data movement, ETL/ELT, and cloud-based platforms.
  • Provide technical leadership by mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and establishing engineering best practices.
  • Design and optimize complex Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, Snowflake, and data integration solutions.
  • Build and support scalable data pipelines, APIs, and near real-time data synchronization solutions.
  • Drive performance tuning, operational excellence, production support, and reliability improvements.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Software Engineering.
  • Strong expertise in database design, performance tuning, and data modeling.
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake, Azure, Data Warehousing, ETL/ELT, and cloud data platforms.
  • Experience with Oracle-to-Snowflake migration and data modernization initiatives.
  • Experience with Astronomer Airflow, Kafka, MQ, CDC, or similar event-driven technologies.
  • Experience with REST APIs, JSON, Unix Shell Scripting, and Control-M.
  • Proficiency with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD, and Agile delivery practices.
  • Work Authorization.

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