Principal Software Engineer (.NET Technical Lead)

Key Responsibilities Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence. Serve as the principal designer for major systems and applications, defining architectures, technical standards, and implementation strategies. Partner with business stakeholders, product teams, and architects to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Design, develop, and support applications using C#, .NET Core/.NET, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, SQL Server, and modern API frameworks. Architect and implement microservices and event-driven solutions leveraging Kafka and related messaging technologies. Design and deploy cloud-native solutions utilizing Azure and/or AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.

Drive adoption of CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, and secure software development practices. Lead technical project planning, solution design, implementation, and status reporting for strategic initiatives. Ensure compliance with enterprise standards, audit requirements, change management controls, and data security policies.

Collaborate with vendors, consultants, and technology partners as needed. Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, tools, and architectural patterns to improve business outcomes and operational efficiency. Champion the use of AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, and AI-assisted engineering platforms to enhance developer productivity, code quality, testing, and documentation.

Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline. 10+ years of software engineering experience with enterprise-scale systems. 5+ years of experience in technical leadership, solution design, systems analysis, or project leadership roles.

Strong expertise in: C# .NET Core / ASP.NET Core Entity Framework Core SQL Server REST APIs Microservices Architecture Experience with: Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms Docker and Kubernetes Azure and/or AWS Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), design patterns, distributed systems, Agile, and DevOps practices.

Hands-on experience using GitHub Copilot and other AI-assisted software engineering tools to accelerate software development and improve engineering effectiveness. Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence technical direction across multiple teams. Excellent communication, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications Financial Services experience. Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform. Familiarity with modern security frameworks including OAuth, JWT, SAML, SSO, and Identity Management solutions.

Salary Range: $137,400 - 233,600 USD Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits.

Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component. Work Authorization Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

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