Senior Manager, Software Engineering | Technology Delivery Leadership — Azure Cloud, Web Applications, Salesforce, and Payments

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. Role Overview We are seeking a seasoned technology leader to serve as Senior Manager, Software Engineering. This role is accountable for end-to-end delivery across Azure Cloud, modern web applications, Salesforce, and payment platforms. The successful candidate will combine strong technical expertise with disciplined execution, build high-performing engineering teams, and coordinate complex initiatives across multiple functions and geographies. This leader will translate business priorities into scalable technology outcomes while strengthening engineering practices, operational resilience, security, and accountability. Key Responsibilities • Lead end-to-end execution: Own planning, architecture alignment, engineering delivery, testing, release readiness, production launch, and post-production stabilization for a portfolio of strategic initiatives. • Drive multi-platform delivery: Provide leadership across Azure Cloud services, web application ecosystems, Salesforce capabilities and integrations, and payment processing platforms. • Translate strategy into outcomes: Partner with product, business, architecture, security, risk, operations, and infrastructure leaders to convert priorities into roadmaps, executable plans, and measurable results. • Strengthen engineering excellence: Champion scalable architecture, secure coding, automation, CI/CD, observability, performance engineering, reliability, and disciplined software development lifecycle practices. • Build high-performing teams: Recruit, develop, coach, and retain engineers; establish clear expectations, empower decision-making, and create succession and capability-development plans. • Coordinate globally: Align teams, vendors, dependencies, and stakeholders across multiple geographies and time zones, ensuring clear ownership, effective handoffs, and timely escalation of risks and decisions. • Manage delivery health: Establish transparent governance for scope, schedule, quality, budget, capacity, dependencies, risks, and technical debt; use metrics to guide decisions and continuous improvement.