Senior Data Engineer

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and self-driven Data Engineer to join the Data Modernisation team. This role is critical to ensure the stability, scalability, and performance of our new age exception management system, data ingestion and control logic infrastructure. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in cloud-native data engineering and a strong understanding of financial data pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines using Snowflake, Airflow, and Kafka to support real-time ingestion and processing of fund accounting data.
• Develop and optimise backend services hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), ensuring high availability and performance.
• Implement and maintain alert logic and control execution frameworks, including rule-based triggers and severity-based alerting.
• Collaborate with business analysts and product owners to translate control requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Support performance tuning, capacity planning, and ingestion timing analysis to meet SLA and audit requirements.
• Participate in incident triage, root cause analysis, and resolution of data flow issues across environments.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering roles, preferably in financial services or enterprise-scale platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, Snowpark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, SQL, and Scala.
• Good to have experience working with Databricks, DBT, Java Spring Boot.
• Proficiency in Python and RESTful API development.
• Experience with Azure cloud services, especially AKS, Azure Functions, ADF, APIM, and Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with GitHub CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Understanding of data quality, lineage, and governance principles.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Shift : EMEA PM IST

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

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We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

About Our Bangalore Office

The Northern Trust Bangalore office, established in 2005, is home to over 5,600 employees.  In this stunning office, space, we offer fantastic amenities which include our Arrival Hub – Jungle, the GameZone, and the Employee Experience Zone that appeal to both clients and employees. Learn more.