Principal Software Engineer, Full Stack

Northern Trust

Principal Full Stack Engineer at Northern Trust managing technology portfolio for Fund administration. Responsible for application architecture and leveraging cloud technologies for business solutions.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeDublin • 🇮🇪 IrelandLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerKubernetesSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Guides the development, specification and communication of application or infrastructure architectures used by multiple business or application systems
Provides extensive, in-depth, technical consultation to the clients, partners, and IT Management to develop plans and directions to assure the integration of corporate business area requirements
Partner with Management in the building of new and ongoing vendor relationships
Evaluates and selects from existing and emerging technologies those options best fitting business/project needs
Promotes sharing of expertise through consulting, presentations, and documentations, etc.
Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to help improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity

Requirements

What you’ll need

In-depth knowledge of various Software Development Life Cycle
Application development frameworks
Manage entire technology platform for the portfolio including access controls, Vulnerabilities, Disaster recovery plans, release planning, testing standards etc
Experience working with Microsoft Azure, AWS, hybrid, and multi-cloud systems
Very good understanding of zero-trust architecture and working experience with relevant tools/technologies
Knowledge related Artificial Intelligence/Machine Language, Devops pipeline, IaC, and relevant tools
Very good understanding of concepts related to docker, container, serverless computing, and Kubernetes
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline and experience in information technology, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible and collaborative work culture
Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities
Work-life balance
Career mobility

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software Development Life Cycleapplication development frameworkszero-trust architectureArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningDevOps pipelineInfrastructure as CodeDockerKubernetesserverless computing

Soft Skills

technical consultationcommunicationvendor relationship managementcross-functional collaborationefficiency improvementeffectiveness improvementproductivity improvement