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.
We are seeking a Sr. Lead, SW Full Stack Engg to lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise mobile applications across iOS and Android. This role requires strong hands-on mobile engineering expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to collaborate across mobile, web, backend, cloud, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality digital experiences.
Key Responsibilities - Lead the architecture, design, development, and maintenance of native mobile applications for iOS and Android.
- Provide technical direction to developers, review designs and code, and promote engineering best practices.
- Build secure, scalable, and high-performing mobile features using Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Java.
- Partner with product, UX, QA, backend, web, cloud, and release teams to deliver end-to-end mobile capabilities.
- Integrate mobile applications with APIs, authentication services, analytics, feature flags, push notifications, and third-party SDKs.
- Collaborate with React web application teams to align user experience, feature behavior, and API usage across channels.
- Work with backend teams to understand APIs, microservices, cloud deployments, and PCF/Cloud Foundry dependencies.
- Drive CI/CD, release readiness, troubleshooting, performance tuning, observability, security remediation, and production support.
Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including strong hands-on native mobile development for iOS and Android.
- Advanced experience with iOS technologies such as Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Xcode, iOS SDK, and mobile dependency management.
- Advanced experience with Android technologies such as Kotlin or Java, Android SDK, Android Studio, Jetpack, and Gradle.
- Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, driving code quality, and supporting enterprise release processes.
- Strong understanding of mobile architecture patterns, secure development practices, accessibility, performance, and automated testing.
- Working knowledge of React-based web applications and how web features, routing, state management, and API integrations align with mobile experiences.
- Familiarity with backend services, REST APIs, microservices, Java/Spring Boot services, cloud deployments, and PCF/Cloud Foundry environments.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, build automation, environment configuration, monitoring, and production support.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience in regulated, financial services, or high-security enterprise environments.
- Knowledge of Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, observability tools, mobile SDK integrations, and release governance.
- Experience leading platform modernization, mobile architecture improvements, security remediation, or cloud migration initiatives.
Salary Range:
$114,500 - 194,700 USD
Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
Work Authorization Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).
Working with Us As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.
Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust's history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.
Reasonable Accommodation Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at , or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.
