Senior Associate, Security Development & Automation

185 Northern Operating Sols Pvt Ltd; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Associate in Security Development & Automation to hands-on engineer automation-driven security capabilities. You will design AI-enabled workflows, build secure API integrations, and develop playbooks to strengthen cyber defense while reducing manual toil.

The role collaborates with security engineering, operations, infra, risk and audit teams to deliver measurable improvements in threat response, vulnerability management and evidence collection within a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, security automation, cloud engineering, platform engineering or related tech disciplines.
• Strong understanding of how development and automation can protect enterprise environments and reduce risk.
• Hands-on development skills in Python, including API consumption and automation frameworks.
• Experience integrating security, ITSM, cloud, identity and data platforms through REST APIs or orchestration tools.
• Familiarity with LLM-enabled solution patterns, AI agent workflows and secure enterprise AI usage.
• Ability to deliver in a regulated environment with audit-ready evidence and change management.

Responsibilities

• Protect Northern Trust through security-driven development and automation.
• Build automation capabilities to reduce cyber risk and improve control execution.
• Engineer AI agent-based workflows for security triage, enrichment and remediation orchestration.
• Create secure API integrations across security platforms, ITSM and CMDB.
• Develop reliable workflow automation assets to reduce friction in security operations.
• Collaborate with security architecture and platform teams to apply reusable automation standards.
• Document architecture, runbooks, and patterns for ongoing support and governance.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Software engineering

Security automation

Cloud engineering

Platform engineering

Infrastructure automation

Python development

REST APIs

Tools

ServiceNow

Azure AI Foundry

Azure Functions

Logic Apps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

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 Senior Associate, Security Development & Automation is a hands‑on technical contributor who helps protect Northern Trust by engineering automation‑first security capabilities. This role supports the design and delivery of AI‑enabled workflows, API integrations, playbooks, scripts and platform services that strengthen cyber defence, reduce manual operational burden and make security outcomes more consistent, measurable and repeatable. The Senior Associate works with security engineering, operations, infrastructure, application, risk, audit and technology teams to understand 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 apply reusable automation standards, secure engineering patterns, guardrails and operational handoffs.

Key Deliverables

• Develop and support security 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.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps, vendor integrations and automation priorities by providing practical engineering input tied to risk reduction, control effectiveness, resiliency, stability and reuse.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ 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 senior technical contributor: supporting solution design, contributing to architecture discussions, delivering complex technical work and helping drive adoption through collaboration and practical execution.
• 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.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in financial services, banking, asset servicing, wealth management or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience with ServiceNow workflows, Vulnerability Response, SecOps, CMDB, ITSM integrations or similar enterprise workflow platforms.
• Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, GitHub Actions, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines or cloud‑native automation patterns.
• Experience building automation for vulnerability management, exposure management, threat response, identity security, network security or cloud security operations.

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve. Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [e-mail], or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.