Manager, Applications
Application Development Manager
Who We Are
The Omnium Technology team is a multidisciplinary development team dedicated to delivering innovative, differentiated and exceptional experiences to Northern Trust’s clients and employees through a comprehensive application platform.
The Omnium platform drives middle and back-office processes for clients and partners within the Corporate & Institutional Services business at Northern Trust.
Description
The Northern Trust Company is looking for an Senior-level Software Development Manager to develop the vision and manage the development and implementation of the next generation of trade capture and transaction management within the Omnium Platform.
This is an exciting time for Northern Trust and this person would be a major part of a Senior IT Management Team helping to move this growing platform forward.
Candidate Profile
• Strong technical background to gain the respect of senior software development staff.
• Strong background in trading/operations to gain the respect of business staff. • Excellent client and executive-facing communication skills
• Track record solving business or technical issues through innovation and creativity.
• Strong sense of ownership. Responsibilities
• Manage staff of application development employees and contractors.
• Develop a multi-year future vision for trade and transaction management.
• Collaborate on design, roadmap, milestones and then deliver.
• Articulate the value provided by the long term vision to clients and senior leadership
• Develop and use metrics to continuously improve system performance
• Collaborate with business leaders to refine processes replacing manual steps with straight through processing
• Mentor team members to grow to reach their potential
• Conduct performance management and career development processes
• Solve problems creatively
• At least six years of experience managing a team and 8-10 years developing software for trading/financial services .
• Understanding of trade capture, security master, market data, cash management, valuation, and accounting
• Must be able to demonstrate critical thinking as it relates to planning, policy formulation, problem resolution, and project management
• Knowledge of various application designs and programming techniques, usually acquired through related experience, is required to develop conceptual system design
• Able to deliver on short and long-term projects with minimal oversight
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills which includes active listening
• Demonstrated leadership experience
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• At least a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent