Principal, Security Development & Automation

The Northern Trust Company; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Principal-level Security Development & Automation specialist to design and deliver AI-enabled workflows, API integrations, playbooks, scripts and platform services that strengthen cyber defense and reduce manual toil. You will collaborate across security, infrastructure, risk and technology teams to translate security needs into automation patterns.

You will mentor engineers, influence platform roadmaps, and deliver LLM-based vulnerability scanning and remediation

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, security automation, cloud engineering, platform engineering or related technology disciplines.
• Strong understanding of how development and automation protect enterprise environments and reduce risk.
• Demonstrated ability to act as a principal-level technical partner across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Build automation capabilities that protect the technology environment and improve security execution.
• Engineer AI agent-based workflows to support triage, enrichment and remediation orchestration.
• Create secure API integrations across security platforms and IT workflows to connect signals and actions.
• Develop reusable automation patterns and ensure secure, observable production workflows.
• Mentor junior team members and influence roadmaps for automation initiatives.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Software engineering

Security automation

Cloud engineering

Platform engineering

Infrastructure automation

Python

REST APIs

Tools

Python

REST APIs

Job description

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 Principal, Security Development & Automation is a senior technical contributor who helps protect Northern Trust by engineering automation-first security capabilities. This role is responsible for designing and delivering AI-enabled workflows, API integrations, playbooks, scripts and platform services that strengthen cyber defense, reduce manual operational burden and make security outcomes more consistent, measurable and repeatable. The Principal Partner works across security engineering, operations, infrastructure, application, risk, audit and technology teams to identify high-value security workflows, translate them into automation patterns and deliver solutions that improve control execution, threat response, vulnerability management, evidence collection and operational resilience.

What You’ll Do

Protect Northern Trust Through Security Driven Development and Automation

• 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 create reusable automation standards, secure engineering patterns, guardrails and operational handoffs.

Key Deliverables

• Own development and automation capabilities that help Northern Trust protect critical services and data, including:
  • Security workflow automation that accelerates discovery, response, remediation and control validation
  • API integrations and reusable playbooks that connect security platforms, enterprise data sources and operational systems of record
  • AI-enabled assistants and agents that improve security decision support while respecting enterprise controls, approvals and data protection requirements
  • Design and Build LLM-based vulnerability scanning and remediation solutions.
  • Integrate LLM capabilities responsibly using enterprise AI platforms such as AI Foundry, approved model providers and vendor AI harnesses to enhance-not replace-security judgment and control execution.
  • Develop prompt, retrieval, orchestration, testing and evaluation patterns that make AI-enabled workflows reliable, observable, secure and aligned to enterprise policy.
  • Engineer automation with strong authentication, authorization, secrets handling, logging, exception handling, change control and auditability so solutions can be trusted in production security workflows.
  • Document architecture, runbooks, decision logic, reusable patterns and operational handoffs so capabilities can be supported, governed and improved over time.
  • Influence platform roadmaps, vendor integrations and automation priorities based on risk reduction, control effectiveness, resiliency, stability and reuse.
• Mentor junior team members

What You’ll Bring

• 15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, security automation, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation 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.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a principal-level technical partner: setting direction, influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, leading complex technical delivery and driving adoption across teams without relying on direct authority.
• 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,