Lead AI Cloud Engineer
Northern Trust1 day ago
Base Salary
$137k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop full-stack applications, APIs, microservices, reusable components, and enterprise integration services for Digital Coworkers and the GAI Foundation Platform.
- Build and support AI-powered business solutions across Transfer Agency, Reconciliation, Omnium, and future AI initiatives.
- Integrate LLMs, RAG solutions, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, enterprise APIs, workflow platforms, and approved AI services.
- Design and deploy cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure and develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and implement monitoring, logging, resiliency, scalability, reliability, and performance practices.
- Support AI lifecycle activities, production deployment, testing, monitoring, governance, operational readiness, and responsible AI initiatives.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, technical design discussions, documentation, runbooks, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Collaborate with AI engineers, cloud engineers, product managers, architects, technical account managers, Scrum Masters, business stakeholders, and platform teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Software Development, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience supporting enterprise applications.
- 5+ years of cloud engineering experience supporting Azure or comparable cloud platforms.
- Experience designing and developing APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise applications using modern software engineering practices.
- Experience with AI/ML concepts, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, vector databases, prompt engineering, digital coworkers, workflow automation, platform integrations, and enterprise security controls.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native services, monitoring, and operational support.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, architecture, operations, security, business, and globally distributed teams in a regulated enterprise environment.
- Preferred experience with enterprise AI platforms, Microsoft AI services, Digital Coworkers, Azure OpenAI, Copilot technologies, agentic AI, Snowflake, Databricks, ServiceNow, identity management, and AI governance.
- Strong communication, systems thinking, architectural judgment, problem-solving, ownership, and delivery discipline.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) and pension retirement benefits.
- Medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, disability coverage, paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life and accident insurance, and voluntary and well-being benefits.
- Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with internal mobility opportunities, accessible senior leaders, and an inclusive workplace.
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About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a financial services company that provides asset servicing (custody and fund administration), asset management, wealth management, and banking/treasury services to institutions, corporations, and affluent families. Its business model centers on fees for assets under custody/administration and management, plus banking services. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Chicago, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (NTRS) and serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.