Senior Lead, Security Development & Automation at Northern Trust in Pune

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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 Lead, 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 defense, reduce manual operational burden and make security outcomes more consistent, measurable and repeatable. The Senior Lead 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 practi