Sr. Principal, Tech PM

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.

Major Duties Program Delivery:

Work with senior leadership, Product Owners, Risk, Compliance, and Program Sponsors to define delivery approaches, drive execution, manage risks, and ensure appropriate resourcing and prioritization across Risk initiatives.

Work with matrixed staff supporting interconnected, complex programs that are enterprise and regulatory priority initiatives.

Oversee portfolio program management across the RCE deliverables related to Service Now IRM platform and delivery organization, ensuring alignment of program outcomes with regulatory commitments, enterprise risk objectives, and strategic business goals.

Direct the resolution of highly complex business, process, data, and technology challenges by applying advanced critical thinking and execution discipline.

Apply industry knowledge, regulatory awareness, and enterprise delivery experience to successfully deliver Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) transformation programs.

Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across Technology, Risk, Compliance, and Business functions to drive delivery outcomes and remove obstacles.

Stakeholder Management:

Direct and oversee program delivery to ensure they:

Identify stakeholders impacted by RCE programs and initiatives, including Risk, Compliance,  Technology, Data, and Business partners.

Understand stakeholder expectations and assess their level of engagement, influence, and impact on successful program delivery.

Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans, ensuring ongoing communication, transparency, and alignment throughout the program lifecycle.

Ensure clear, consistent, and timely communication regarding program progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions.

Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, proactively managing conflicts, competing priorities, and escalations.

Monitor stakeholder satisfaction and adoption readiness and address concerns that may impact delivery or business outcomes.

Manage changes in stakeholder expectations, regulatory requirements, or business priorities and ensure they are appropriately incorporated into program plans and delivery roadmaps.

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Risk Management:

Direct and oversee project and program managers to ensure they:

Partner with Organizational Change Management (OCM) teams at both Technology and Enterprise levels to drive change readiness, adoption, and business value realization.

Maintain a balanced cross-functional perspective, collaborating across Technology, Risk, Compliance, and Business functions to ensure effective program execution.

Ensure adherence to Technology governance, SDLC, release management, and change management processes and procedures.

Implement and lead robust program-level governance, dependency management, issue management, and change control processes to effectively manage impacts to scope, schedule, budgets, resources, or regulatory commitments.

Drive proactive identification, mitigation, escalation, and resolution of program risks, issues,…