DevSecOps Sr. Lead - Shared Services and Cash

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.

Senior Lead, DevSecOps - Shared Services and Cash

The DevSecOps Leader is responsible for integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant application delivery across business units. This role bridges the gap between development, security, and operations by implementing security best practices, automating security controls, and fostering a culture of security awareness. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in DevSecOps methodologies, cloud security, and regulatory compliance, ensuring that security is embedded at every stage of the software development and deployment process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a DevSecOps strategy that aligns with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

• Change management process

• Embed security controls, tools, and automation within CI/CD pipelines to enhance security without disrupting development velocity.

• Establish secure coding practices, vulnerability management, and threat modeling across business units.

• Lead efforts to implement Zero Trust Architecture and security-by-design principles.

• Design and deploy security automation solutions for code scanning, container security, and infrastructure as code (IaC).

• Implement SAST, DAST, SCA, and RASP tools to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities in real time.

• Enforce privileged access management (PAM) and identity federation for DevOps toolchains.

• Optimize container and cloud security (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/ GCP).

• Develop incident response playbooks for DevSecOps environments.

• Lead security incident investigations related to applications, APIs, and cloud environments.

• Collaborate with security operations (SOC) teams to improve threat detection and response capabilities.

• Ensure proactive threat intelligence integration into the DevSecOps lifecycle.

• Act as a security champion within business units, fostering collaboration between security, development, and operations teams.

• Provide technical mentorship and training to developers and DevOps engineers.

• Work closely with enterprise security teams to align security frameworks with corporate standards.

• Communicate security risks and solutions effectively to senior leadership.

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

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

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.