Director, Platform Security Engineering and Operations

## Director, Platform Security Engineering and Operations Apply:
Chicago, IL:
Full time:
Posted 7 Days Ago:
R162121
** 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.
The Director, Platform Security Engineering and Operations is a people leader responsible for defining and leading the strategy, governance, and execution of Northern Trust’s enterprise security platforms. This role sets direction for the team, establishes priorities, develops engineering and operations talent, and ensures delivery of secure, resilient and audit-ready platform outcomes. The Director must be able to guide technical strategy, remove execution barriers, influence cross-functional partners and translate complex security engineering work into clear risk, control and business outcomes for senior stakeholders.  

# What You'll Do## Lead Security Platform Engineering Teams
* Lead, coach and develop a team of security engineering individual contributors responsible for enterprise security platforms.
* Set technical and operational direction for security tools spanning zero-trust, SASE/SSE, network, vulnerability and exposure management, AI guardrails, and SaaS.
* Establish engineering standards, implementation patterns, operating models and runbook expectations that enable consistent execution across the team.
* Define team goals, maturity models and performance metrics that measure delivery, assurance, compliance and measurable risk reduction.
* Coordinate cross-functional security initiatives across engineering, infrastructure, application, risk, audit and operations teams.  ## Key Deliverables
* Lead the team accountable for designing, engineering, coordinating and operating:  + Intrusion prevention(IPS) across next-gen firewalls  + Vulnerability scanning platforms and unified vulnerability management(UVM) layer  + Enterprise SASE / SSE security platforms  + Secure web gateway, CASB, and cloud access protection  + SaaS application protection and monitoring  + Secure remote access and internet traffic inspection  + Browser isolation and modern web threat prevention  + AI gateway controls that govern how users and applications consume LLMs and AI services  + Service Now integrations (Vulnerability Response, ITSM, CMDB)
* Own team outcomes for platform health, upgrades, capacity, resilience, lifecycle management, vendor management and escalation across the stack.
* Define, review and communicate metrics on coverage, control effectiveness, SLA adherence, tool health, team throughput and measurable risk reduction.
* Ensure audit and regulatory support is delivered with strong evidence quality, traceability, repeatable operations and clear ownership across PCI-DSS, SOX, GLBA, OCC/FFIEC and related expectations.
* Review and approve engineering, operations and executive-ready documentation used by security engineering, operations, risk and audit stakeholders.
* Lead prioritization, investment recommendations, capability evaluations, proofs of concept and tool rationalization decisions based on risk reduction, operational fit, cost…