Lead Compliance Surveillance Tech & AI Solutions

001 The Northern Trust Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

retirement benefits

health benefits

paid time off

parital caregiver leave

life & accident insurance

other voluntary benefits

discretionary bonus program

Job summary

Northern Trust, a global leader in wealth management and advisory services, seeks a Technical Lead for Compliance Surveillance. You will own surveillance platforms across AI-driven detection, data ingestion, and vendor integrations, shaping scalable, secure, and auditable solutions that meet regulatory requirements.

You will collaborate with Compliance Technology managers and engineering leaders to deliver strategic capabilities and drive innovation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, integration, or solution architecture experience.
• Experience supporting Compliance, Regulatory, Surveillance, AML, Conduct Risk, Trade Monitoring, or Communications Monitoring platforms.
• Hands-on experience integrating platforms such as Global Relay, TradingHub, ACA, Smarsh, NICE Actimize, Behavox, or similar compliance technologies.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, advanced analytics, anomaly detection, and surveillance use cases.
• Experience with SaaS integration architectures, APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud technologies, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Strong knowledge of data security, encryption standards, key management, access controls, and data privacy requirements.
• Experience with enterprise data governance, data mesh architectures, data quality management, and reporting frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management and vendor relationship management skills.
• Leadership Expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery efforts from concept through production deployment, coordinating across engineering, infrastructure, security, and compliance stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership to development teams supporting surveillance technologies.
• Drive the adoption of advanced analytics and data science capabilities within surveillance platforms.

Skills

Software engineering

Compliance platforms

AI/ML concepts

SaaS integration

APIs

Data security

Data governance

Vendor management

Leadership

Tools

Global Relay

TradingHub

ACA

Smarsh

NICE Actimize

Behavox

Job description

Northern Trust, a global leader in wealth management and advisory services, seeks a Technical Lead for Compliance Surveillance. You will own surveillance platforms across AI-driven detection, data ingestion, and vendor integrations, shaping scalable, secure, and auditable solutions that meet regulatory requirements.

You will collaborate with Compliance Technology managers and engineering leaders to deliver strategic capabilities and drive innovation.