Senior Lead Mobile & Full-Stack Architect

Northern Trust Corp.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 115,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust Corp. is seeking a Sr. Lead, SW Full Stack Engg to guide architecture and hands-on development of enterprise mobile applications for iOS and Android. You will collaborate across mobile, web, backend, cloud, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable experiences.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, expertise in Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Java, and leadership in design and release processes, with a focus on performance, security, and accessibility.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including strong hands-on native mobile development for iOS and Android.
• Advanced experience with iOS technologies such as Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Xcode, iOS SDK, and mobile dependency management.
• Advanced experience with Android technologies such as Kotlin or Java, Android SDK, Android Studio, Jetpack, and Gradle.
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, driving code quality, and supporting enterprise release processes.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture patterns, secure development practices, accessibility, performance, and automated testing.
• Working knowledge of React-based web applications and how web features, routing, state management, and API integrations align with mobile experiences.
• Familiarity with backend services, REST APIs, microservices, Java/Spring Boot services, cloud deployments, and PCF/Cloud Foundry environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, build automation, environment configuration, monitoring, and production support.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and maintenance of native mobile applications for iOS and Android.
• Provide technical direction to developers, review designs and code, and promote engineering best practices.
• Build secure, scalable, and high-performing mobile features using Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Java.
• Partner with product, UX, QA, backend, web, cloud, and release teams to deliver end-to-end mobile capabilities.
• Collaborate with React web application teams to align user experience, feature behavior, and API usage across channels.
• Work with backend teams to understand APIs, microservices, cloud deployments, and PCF/Cloud Foundry dependencies.
• Drive CI/CD, release readiness, troubleshooting, performance tuning, observability, security remediation, and production support.

Skills

Swift

Kotlin

Java

React

CI/CD

Git

Code quality

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT or equivalent experience

Tools

Xcode

Android Studio

Jetpack

Gradle

Spring Boot

Job description

Northern Trust Corp. is seeking a Sr. Lead, SW Full Stack Engg to guide architecture and hands-on development of enterprise mobile applications for iOS and Android. You will collaborate across mobile, web, backend, cloud, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable experiences.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, expertise in Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Java, and leadership in design and release processes, with a focus on performance, security, and accessibility.