Sr Data Lead - Pune, India - Northern Trust

Description

About Northern Trust:

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.

This is an exciting time for Northern Trust and this individual would play an important role in the growth of teams under his/her remit. It is expected that this individual has considerable experience and strong technical background to gain the respect of senior software development staff. Suitable candidate must have a team development focus and prior hands-on experience with multiple aspects of Data Management delivery of applications.

• Leads developers and testers in across multiple projects and team in the development central data solutions such as Data Lakehouse, Operational Data Store, Data Hubs, Data Marts, and Analytics to meet business needs.
• Provide oversight and management of multiple applications development efforts simultaneously across a multiple stakeholders and product owners.
• Supervises and Manages a mixture of both developers and Level1 production support staff
• Liaison with several Chicago-based teams on projects, strategic data architecture goals, data requirements, and troubleshooting
• Develops periodic goals, organizes the work, sets short-term priorities, monitors all activities, and ensures timely and accurate completion of the work by employees and outside technology contractors.
• Work with management on setting strategic priorities and direction for the India teams. Think outside the box capabilities.
• Thoroughly understands decision process issues of technology choice, such as capacities, response time, data interfacing, client server communication, industry standard technologies and new industry trends, etc.
• Provide guidance and direction to teams on technologies and the right way of doing things, code quality, coaching on interactions with stakeholders.
• Engages in high level break/fix support during disaster recovery scenarios and assists with Production issues when higher level analysis is required.
• Works closely with architects and other enterprise stakeholders to ensure solution alignment with best enterprise practices.
• Responsible for the performance management of the staff reporting to self.
• Responsible for maximizing the effectiveness by building strong team/technical competencies.
• Help recruit, develop and mentor high performing and diverse teams across various workgroups. Promote teamwork in problem resolution. Foster an environment of open discussion,
• Ensures adherence to organizational policies, guidelines and processes

Skills/ Experience

• Demonstrated leadership and cross functional collaboration experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong organizational and facilitation skills
• Ability to work under pressure and to prioritize tasks
• Ability to attract and retain top talent
• Expertise in designing lakehouse/ data solutions on Azure/ Snowflake
• Requires an extensive knowledge of application development and support processes, usually having experience with multiple system technologies.
• Strong domain knowledge and experience working with a wide range of Financial Services / Wealth Management technology platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong knowledge of applying agile methodologies (Kanban, Iterative Waterfall, hybrid-Agile) and experience handling teams with different maturity of agile practices.
• Excellent consultative and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with client, partner, and IT management and staff.
• Engages in high level break/fix support during disaster recovery scenarios and assists with Production issues when higher level analysis is required.
• Thoroughly understands decision process issues of technology choice, such as capacities, response time, data interfacing, client server communication, industry standard technologies and new industry trends, etc.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 15 years of overall experience, with at least 7 years in supervising/managing teams

Recommended Skills

• Experience with emerging trends in technology such as Public/Private Cloud Technologies as it relates to Data Management, PII management, Financial Services Regulations.
• Technical experience with various Data Product development tools, utilities, and frameworks such as Azure Delta Lake/ Synapse, Snowflake, Databrick, IBM DataStage, Informatica, Oracle PL/SQL, and Master Data concepts. Additional application development utilizes Java Spring Frameworks, server-side JavaScript, and NoSQL data utilities
• Interpret business requirement and functional requirements to assist developers and/or testers in their job duties
• Ability to guide and direct resources performing complex data analysis across two or more separate databases. Provide guidance on giving presentation of summary of analysis.
• Project effort planning and resource levelling to guide best allocation of team technical skills across multiple projects
• Ability to read data models and explain data Entity-Relationships to ETL developers, python and java developers.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

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We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.