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LAYIQ - Sr. Lead, Software Engineering at Northern Trust, Chicago, IL

Technical Leadership & Engineering
Lead the design, development, implementation, and modernization of complex enterprise digital solutions.
Remain hands-on with Java/JEE, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and modern web applications .
Provide technical direction across multiple applications, components, and engineering teams.
Lead technical design and architecture reviews to ensure scalability, security, performance, resiliency, and maintainability.
Establish and promote clean-code practices, reusable engineering patterns, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and spec-driven/contract-first development.
Perform and guide code reviews, technical deep dives, proof-of-concepts, and resolution of complex engineering challenges.
Partner with architects and senior engineers to define and continuously improve engineering standards and reference patterns.
Cloud, Platform & Modernization
Design and deliver cloud-native solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure and modern engineering practices.
Provide technical leadership across Azure compute, networking, storage, integration, security, and cloud database capabilities.
Drive modernization of legacy applications and services toward scalable, API-first, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures.
Ensure solutions are designed for availability, observability, scalability, performance, resiliency, and operational supportability.
Provide technical guidance for data architecture, integration patterns, Oracle/SQL, Elasticsearch, MQ/Solace, and related enterprise technologies.
DevOps, Quality & Automation
Champion Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure automation practices.
Drive Test-Driven Development and comprehensive automation across unit, integration, regression, and system testing.
Strengthen CI/CD pipelines and release practices to improve deployment reliability, quality, and delivery velocity.
Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboarding, incident response, and production readiness.
Identify recurring operational issues and drive engineering improvements that reduce technical debt and improve application stability.
AI-Assisted Engineering
Champion responsible adoption of AI-assisted software engineering tools and practices to improve developer productivity, quality, and engineering effectiveness.
Identify opportunities to incorporate AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, code generation, testing, documentation, and engineering productivity capabilities into development workflows.
Establish effective engineering practices that combine AI-assisted development with appropriate code review, testing, security, and governance controls.
Engineering Excellence & Team Enablement
Mentor and develop engineers across design, coding, testing, cloud engineering, DevOps, and production support disciplines.
Provide technical guidance to Lead and Senior Software Engineers while promoting strong engineering ownership and accountability.
Foster a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Lead by influence across engineering teams and help drive alignment on technology decisions, standards, and strategic technical priorities.
Promote reusable engineering capabilities and patterns that improve consistency and accelerate delivery across the portfolio.
Application Reliability, Risk & Governance
Monitor application and platform health and lead resolution of complex stability, performance, scalability, and resiliency issues .
Identify, assess, and mitigate technology, operational, security, and engineering risks.
Ensure appropriate controls are incorporated into application design, development, deployment, and operational processes.
Proactively address vulnerabilities, technical debt, and production risks to maintain application reliability and resilience.
Ensure solutions comply with organizational architecture standards, security policies, technology controls, regulatory expectations, and governance requirements.
Collaboration & Strategic Influence
Partner closely with Product, Business, Architecture, QA, SRE, Security, Infrastructure, and other technology teams.
Translate business requirements and strategic priorities into scalable technical solutions and engineering roadmaps.
Communicate complex technology decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Influence technology direction and engineering priorities through technical expertise and data-driven recommendations.
Collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams across North America, EMEA, and India.
Proactively identify dependencies, constraints, technology risks, and opportunities while recommending pragmatic solutions.
Required Qualifications
Technical Skills
8+ years of professional software engineering experience , with significant hands-on development and technical leadership experience.
Deep expertise in Java/JEE, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise application development .
Strong experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure .
Strong experience with Oracle, SQL, Elasticsearch, MQ/Solace, and enterprise integration technologies .
Solid understanding of distributed systems, API design, event-driven architecture, data modeling, and application performance optimization.
Strong experience with CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices .
Practical experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and spec-driven/contract-first development.
Experience with Linux, networking, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, observability, and application security.
Understanding of application architecture, cloud architecture, security, scalability, availability, and resiliency principles.
Leadership & Professional Skills
Proven ability to provide hands-on technical leadership across complex engineering initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate engineering practices across teams.
Ability to lead and influence technology decisions without relying on direct reporting authority.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, design, and problem-solving capabilities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to communicate architecture and engineering decisions clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.
Comfortable operating in complex, fast-paced, globally distributed enterprise environments.
Education & Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field .
8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading complex application development initiatives.
Experience working within Agile product and engineering organizations.
Experience delivering enterprise-grade systems in regulated environments.
Experience with digital products, workflow automation, transaction processing, client onboarding, or financial services platforms is preferred.

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