Director, Cyber Security Development & Automation

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.

The Director, Cyber Security Development & Automation leads a team of developers and automation engineers responsible for delivering full-stack security applications and automation capabilities that protect Northern Trust’s clients, data, applications, infrastructure and emerging AI workloads. This role sets the strategic direction for security development and automation, translates cyber risk priorities into an executable roadmap, and ensures the team builds scalable, secure, resilient and audit‑ready solutions.

The Director partners across security, technology, risk, audit and business teams to prioritize high-value automation and development opportunities, guide architecture and delivery, manage stakeholder expectations, and develop technical talent capable of advancing Northern Trust’s cyber defense capabilities at enterprise scale.

Lead Security Development and Automation Strategy Lead a team of developers and automation engineers responsible for building security capabilities that reduce cyber risk, improve operational consistency and strengthen control execution. Set the vision, roadmap and delivery priorities for development of AI‑enabled applications, agents, API integrations, and reusable automation patterns. Translate enterprise security needs into a balanced portfolio of development initiatives that improve threat response, vulnerability management, evidence collection, control validation and operational resilience.

Provide technical leadership and management oversight to ensure solutions are secure, reliable, supportable, observable, scalable and aligned to enterprise architecture and risk expectations. Partner with security architecture, platform engineering, cloud security, IAM, threat, governance and operations teams to establish standards, guardrails, handoffs and adoption plans for automation capabilities. Own and manage the delivery portfolio for development and automation capabilities that help Northern Trust protect critical services and data, including:
Security workflow automation programs that accelerate discovery, response, remediation and control validation Reusable integration patterns that connect security platforms, enterprise data sources and operational systems of record AI‑enabled applications and agentic workflows that improve security decision support while respecting enterprise controls, approvals and data protection requirements LLM‑based vulnerability scanning, remediation support and secure coding capabilities delivered with appropriate governance and measurable outcomes Establish responsible AI engineering practices for security use cases, including approved platforms, model governance, prompt and retrieval standards, testing, evaluation, observability and exception handling.

Manage prioritization, capacity, delivery commitments and stakeholder communications across multiple concurrent automation initiatives. Ensure production automation solutions include strong authentication,…