Senior Lead, Security Automation & Development

Northern Trust; Limerick; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Lead, Security Development & Automation in Ireland to drive automation-first security capabilities. You will design and deliver AI-enabled workflows, API integrations, playbooks and platform services to strengthen cyber defense and reduce manual burden.

You will collaborate with security engineering, operations, risk and other teams to translate high-value security workflows into scalable automation while ensuring auditability and data protection compliance.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, security automation, cloud engineering, platform engineering or related technology disciplines.
• Strong understanding of how development and automation can be used to protect enterprise environments, improve control execution and reduce operational risk.
• Hands-on development skills in Python, including API consumption, data transformation, automation frameworks, error handling, testing and operational supportability.
• Experience integrating security, ITSM, cloud, identity, observability or data platforms through REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven patterns, workflow tools or orchestration platforms.
• Working knowledge of LLM-enabled solution patterns, AI agent workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, model evaluation, AI guardrails and secure use of enterprise AI platforms.
• Ability to deliver in a regulated environment with strong attention to audit-ready evidence, access controls, change management, testability, resiliency and production support.

Responsibilities

• Build development and automation capabilities that help protect Northern Trust’s technology environment, reduce cyber risk and improve the consistency of security execution.
• Engineer AI agent-based workflows that support security triage, enrichment, correlation, investigation support, evidence collection, control validation and remediation orchestration.
• Create secure API integrations across security platforms, ITSM, CMDB, vulnerability management, cloud, network, identity, data and observability tools to connect signals, decisions and actions.
• Develop reliable workflow automation assets that remove friction from security operations and make high-value controls easier to operate at scale.
• Partner with security architecture, platform engineering, cloud security, IAM, threat and governance teams to apply reusable automation standards, guardrails and operational handoffs.
• Document architecture, runbooks, decision logic, reusable patterns and operational handoffs so capabilities can be supported, governed and improved over time.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Security automation

Python development

REST APIs

LLM-enabled patterns

Audit-ready evidence

Tools

ServiceNow

Azure AI Foundry

Azure Functions

Logic Apps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

CI/CD

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Lead, Security Development & Automation in Ireland to drive automation-first security capabilities. You will design and deliver AI-enabled workflows, API integrations, playbooks and platform services to strengthen cyber defense and reduce manual burden.

You will collaborate with security engineering, operations, risk and other teams to translate high-value security workflows into scalable automation while ensuring auditability and data protection compliance.