Lead React Developer - Chicago, United States - 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 worlds 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 worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Job Description: Lead React Developer, Front Office Analytics Sr. Engineer

Who We Are?

Built from the ground up to directly support front office services for our clients, the Front Office Analytics (FOA) team sits within Northern Trust Asset Servicing. We are staffed to operate as an extension of our clients business much like technical experts that are typically attached to the front office operations of the trading desk. Offering both outsourced services and collaborative problem solving as client and market needs change, this team is built to be creative, flexible, and most importantly, tactical. ?

The FOA team is comprised of experts in Financial Engineering, Portfolio Market Risk, Exposure, Valuations, PnL, Performance, Post Trade Compliance, Data Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, as well as Product and Platform Management.????

Front Office Analytics collaborates closely with Front Office Solutions, Corporate & Institutional Services, Fund Services, along with Investment Data Science and other Northern Trust operating units to offer a comprehensive suite of integrated services that allow Northern Trust to support the entire investment value chain.??

Our Mission?

Our mission is to deliver a true front office analytics service, providing clients with comprehensive and highly dynamic oversight of total portfolio exposures, risk, performance, regulatory, and portfolio compliance monitoring. This allows clients to spend more time developing insights and making informed investment decisions, and less time managing data. We achieve this through empowering a client-focused team of subject matter experts with a purpose-built technology stack that allows for extensive and scalable client customization. The ability to deliver customized total portfolio analytics at scale allows the service to truly operate as an extension of our clients business.?

Who You Are?

A successful candidate will be an ambitious self-starter with the ability to partner with development and product teams to effectively manage simultaneous projects to completion. We are looking for team members who are not afraid to ask questions and are comfortable taking risks in their approach to everyday challenges. You will be expected to manage your own work-streams, while leveraging the expertise and experience of those around you.?

The ideal candidate will be able to interface cross-stream with multiple team members, as well as product owners, stake holders and clients where the role may necessitate. The right candidate will have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the drive to leverage their skills to play a role in FOAs future development. Familiarity with the investment management industry or concepts such as valuations, market risk, regulatory reporting, or compliance is preferred, but not required for technical roles.

Minimum Qualification & Required Technical Skills:

• Bachelors Degree required
• Proficient experience with web technologies, frameworks, and tools like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, NodeJS, XML, jQuery, Spring, etc.
• Understanding and proficiency to our technical stack.
• Experience in developing and explaining data-visualizations.
• Familiarity with GIT/SVN and general git-workflow as it relates to version control.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and direct SQL queries.
• Cloud Services (AWS, Azure)
• Firm grasp of consuming, creating, and maintaining data structures. Experience with duckdb a plus.
• Expected to have a deep understanding of SPA/MFE architecture with a rigorous focus on modularity in architecture.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience with React, Typescript, Javascript and FE frameworks/languages(html, css, etc.)
• Experience working with version control and familiarity with git as well as a high-level understanding of CICD and traditional SDLC (ability to learn things like working with pipeline-builds and registries expected)
• Ability to work collaboratively with both backend engineers and business teams.
• Familiarity with building containerized solutions or at the very least an ability to adapt and learn (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience with building on AWS/Azure as well as an understanding of how to integrate applications with multiple DataBase engines.
• The team writes in an array of languages, but our architectural approach and patterns are consistent, so we will expect the right candidate to be able to adapt to and help enrich our approaches.
• Proficiency in other computing languages is a plus, and tooling is available to help our partners up-skill. We encourage learning outside of your direct mandates.
• Basic understanding of financial products and portfolio management concepts a plus, but not required.
• Skilled-written communication, interpersonal skills, and ability to think creatively about business issues.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Integral member of the development team to design and steer front office analytics platform.
• Execute on strategic roadmap of the front office analytics platform through development of portfolio analytics offerings specifically on Post Trade Compliance front end user interface with potential to develop in near future on other front-end user interfaces that support Portfolio Risk, Regulatory, and other key portfolio analytics for front office clients and services.
• Leverage technical skills to contribute to the enhancement of our ecosystem and productionize client-services.
• Responsible for developing software in React primarily
• Responsible for integrating and designing interfaces between UI and API/Database connections.
• Test development, implement clean code according to required style guide of the Front Office Analytics team, and refactor of proprietary applications.
• Work across multiple Operating Systems (Predominantly UNIX, legacy windows, most all builds are cloud-native and linux based at current time)
• Experience utilizing databases such as traditional on-premise SQL and cloud-based solutions, specifically Snowflake.
• Manage a dynamic portfolio of work and manage time and responsibilities.
• Work with business matter subject experts and developer team members to understand development requests, participate in discovery process, and lead/ coordinate platform builds.
• Documentation of code base, ownership of code version control, code review, and testing of deployment frameworks inline with our teams followed-practices.
• Participate in a culture of learning, knowledge sharing, and collaborative environment.

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.

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

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at

We hope youre excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. 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.