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Compliance SW Engg

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for: Northern Trust
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-21
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Information Security & Data Protection
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Compliance Surveillance Technology Ownership

Serve as a technical lead for eCommunication Surveillance, Trade Surveillance, and Employee Ethics Monitoring platforms, supporting enterprise compliance, conduct risk, and regulatory obligations.

Partner with Compliance Technology Managers, Engineering Leads, and Compliance stakeholders to deliver strategic surveillance technology capabilities and platform enhancements.

Provide technical leadership across multiple surveillance initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

Lead solution design reviews and technology assessments for new surveillance use cases, data sources, and regulatory requirements.

AI, Machine Learning & Emerging Technologies

Evaluate and implement emerging AI and Machine Learning capabilities to improve detection, monitoring, alert generation, risk scoring, and investigative workflows.

Stay current on industry trends related to AI-driven surveillance, behavioral analytics, communication monitoring, and anomaly detection.

Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to assess innovative surveillance capabilities and rapidly validate value through proofs of concept (POCs) and pilot programs.

Drive the adoption of advanced analytics and data science capabilities within surveillance platforms while ensuring governance and explainability requirements are met.

Assess AI model performance, data lineage, model governance considerations, and operational controls impacting regulatory compliance.

Platform Integration & Vendor Management

Lead integration efforts across surveillance platforms including solutions such as Global Relay, Trading Hub, ACA, and other compliance technology providers.

Design scalable integration patterns supporting structured and unstructured data ingestion from enterprise sources.

Collaborate with SaaS vendors to onboard new capabilities, define integration requirements, troubleshoot implementation challenges, and optimize platform performance.

Support vendor evaluations, product assessments, RFP activities, roadmap reviews, and technical due diligence efforts.

Establish technical standards for vendor connectivity, API integration, data exchange, monitoring, and operational support.

Architecture, Data & Security

Design secure and scalable architecture patterns supporting enterprise surveillance platforms and associated data ecosystems.

Partner with enterprise architecture teams to define data integration strategies leveraging data mesh, event-driven architecture, APIs, and cloud-native services.

Ensure adherence to enterprise security standards, including encryption, key management, data masking, access controls, and secure transmission protocols.

Evaluate architecture impacts related to SaaS deployments, third-party hosting models, cloud security requirements, and regulatory data protection obligations.

Support data retention, legal hold, records management, and audit requirements across surveillance platforms.

Define technical patterns supporting high-volume data ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and reporting capabilities.

Data Quality, Reporting & Governance

Establish data quality frameworks, reconciliation processes, and monitoring controls to ensure integrity of surveillance datasets.

Partner with Compliance and Risk teams to define data governance standards, metadata requirements, lineage tracking, and quality metrics.

Develop reporting and monitoring capabilities supporting management oversight, regulatory examinations, audits, and operational governance.

Support production issue management, root cause analysis, remediation planning, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Ensure surveillance data platforms maintain complete, accurate, timely, and auditable records.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

Lead technical delivery efforts from concept through production deployment, coordinating across engineering, infrastructure, security, and compliance stakeholders.

Facilitate rapid prototyping and POC execution to evaluate emerging technologies and vendor capabilities.

Create and maintain technology roadmaps, technical documentation, architecture artifacts, operational procedures, and implementation standards.

Support governance forums, architecture review boards, risk assessments, and audit activities.

Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership to development teams supporting surveillance technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering, integration, or solution architecture experience.

Experience supporting Compliance, Regulatory, Surveillance, AML, Conduct Risk, Trade Monitoring, or Communications Monitoring platforms.

Hands-on experience integrating platforms such as Global Relay, Trading Hub, ACA, Smarsh, NICE Actimize, Behavox, or similar compliance technologies.

Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, advanced analytics, anomaly detection, and surveillance use cases.

Experience with SaaS integration architectures, APIs, event-driven architectures,…

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