About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

About the role:

We are seeking a talented Lead Security Engineer to join our team. As a Lead Security DLP Engineer, you will play a crucial role in safeguarding our organization's technology from cyber threats and ensuring the overall security posture of our systems. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security solutions, as well as reviewing and recommending new technologies, identifying areas for improvement, and contributing to the overall security program.

What you will be doing:

Design, implement/deploy, and manage various DLP solutions, strategies, and tools across enterprise-wide environment.Develop, test and implement DLP security policies and procedures to ensure compliance with company policy, industry standards and regulatory requirements.Provide analysis and review of current security solutions, make recommendations for any changes to environment. Demonstrate a strong working knowledge of product offerings and make recommendations based on past experiences.Tune, configure and optimize security tools to defend against new tactics, techniques, and procedures as well as lead initiatives to develop processes for any existing process deficiencies.Work closely and frictionlessly with insider risk team, privacy, threat management team, security operations team, and other businesses.Expand scope of work into additional engineering disciplines as organizational needs and requirements change.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security solutions into existing infrastructure and workflows.Stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity threats, trends, and technologies, and recommend appropriate security controls and countermeasures.Provide expertise and guidance on security best practices to internal stakeholders and support teams. Create and deliver technical presentations to peers, other teams and leadership.Act as subject matter expert within team and provide mentoring and guidance to team members and peers within other organizations. Advocate for security best practices within other teams and organizations.Work with minimal supervision and drive projects through to completion. Provide visibility and reporting to project activities, present to senior staff and escalate needs as a means to ensure completion against deadlines.

What you need:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field, or the combination of demonstrable relevant experience and skills.In-depth knowledge of various security technologies including DLP, exposure to MS application whitelisting, privilege management, endpoint encryption, web content filtering, CASB, SIEM and vulnerability management.Advanced level knowledge and experience with market leading security management platforms and deployment tools such as Tanium, InTune, SCCM, etc.Proven experience in designing, implementing and managing security solutions in enterprise environments as a project lead or subject matter expert.Strong understanding of data as it flows from detection and prevention tools to SIEM and how incident handling teams will leverage this data for casework.Understanding of cybersecurity principles, best practices, and industry requirements and frameworks.Strong familiarity with network security concepts and technologies (firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, web application firewalls etc.).Deep understanding of operating system technology, including Microsoft Windows, MacOS and various Linux distributions.Knowledge of virtualization platforms both centrally managed as well as locally managed as well as the means to provide visibility and control to guest systems.Working knowledge of cloud-based security solutions and experience with public cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform. Ability to deploy tools in these environments as well as provide critical feedback for requirements in a security capacity.Knowledge of scripting languages (PowerShell etc.,) for automation and customization of various security solutions.Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex security issues. Experience with writing detailed root-cause analysis for senior leadership after major incidents.Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.Experience using data analysis tools such as Excel, PowerBI, Sentinel, etc. and the ability to drive change based on evidence as well as design new means of collecting, storing and building views.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.