Sr. Lead Java Developer | Cloud Expertise

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Summary:

Northern Trust is looking for a Senior Lead Java Software Engineer to join its Technology Development Centre in Pune, India in the Investment Management team. This individual as part of an agile development team, will be responsible for analysis and design of upcoming Alternatives business platform that meet business and technical requirements.

Responsibilities:

Analyse and build the data model from requirements of Private Equity, Hedge Fund businesses of Northern Trust Asset Management upcoming Alts data warehouse.

Analyse the source data while working with upstream teams and 50 South development team to produce schema.

Build pipelines to extract required data from upstream systems and model them for reporting to clients and downstream systems. Break down requirements to domain, model and entity data for setup in data warehouse.

Able to define the Raw, Transform and Curate layers for data consumption.

Liaise with various vendor products, internal applications to refine the requirements to help technical team solutions.

First point of contact for clarification of any business gaps in Tech team locally.

Participate in data modeling discussions and ensure the data warehouse model meets business needs.

A team player with an ability to own the design and code as per requirement given.

Communicate status (written and verbal) to project team and management Continuously looks for ways to improve the application’s stability, scalability and user experience.

Experience:

Bachelor or equivalent degree in finance with technology background.

11-15 years experienced technical engineer who can develop and maintain high-performance, reliable, and scalable Java-microservice architecture applications.

Strong on Design and implement cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure, utilizing services like Azure App Services, Azure Functions, and Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), ADF, Azure Networking concepts.

Write clean, reusable, and well-documented code.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX designers, QA engineers, and product managers.

Ensure applications adhere to high performance, scalability, and security standards. Leverage Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines and automation.

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance for cloud-hosted applications. Integrate data storage solutions using Azure SQL, Snowflake, or other database technologies.

Stay updated with emerging technologies and cloud trends to continuously enhance systems and solutions.

Required Skills:

Strong expertise in Java (Java 8 and java 17 or higher).

Proficiency in frameworks like Spring Boot, Microservice Architecture.

Experience in cloud-native development and deployment on Microsoft Azure.

Hands-on experience with Azure services such as Azure App Services, Functions, Kubernetes (AKS), Azure DevOps, Blob Storage, and Service Bus.

Knowledge of RESTful APIs, SOAP, and microservices architecture.

Solid understanding of database technologies (e.g., Azure SQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL). Experience with version control systems like Git.

Familiarity with containerization tools such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Strong understanding of design patterns, algorithms, and data structures.

Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.

Design, develop and use data structures and data marts to support reporting.

Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Both attention to detail & ability to rise above details to see broader implications & recommend strategic solutions.

Self-starter; Positive & adaptable in a continually changing environment.

Ability to work independently and with a team.

Proven interpersonal and communication skills with technical & business partners.

Strong understanding of building CI/CD pipelines for change management.

Preferred/ Recommended Skills:

Familiarity with Change management process.

Financial domain knowledge – Investment Management, portfolio construction and risk management.

Worked on project streamlining the testing process by introducing automation, leveraging tools and setting goals to reduce time and effort.

Experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF) for building and orchestrating data pipelines.

Knowledge of messaging systems like Kafka.

Certification in Microsoft Azure (e.g., Azure Developer Associate or Azure Solutions Architect). Familiarity with front-end technologies like JavaScript, Angular, or React