Director, Cyber Security Development & Automation

The Director, Cyber Security Development & Automation leads a team of developers and automation engineers responsible for delivering full-stack security applications and automation capabilities that protect Northern Trust’s clients, data, applications, infrastructure and emerging AI workloads. This role sets the strategic direction for security development and automation, translates cyber risk priorities into an executable roadmap, and ensures the team builds scalable, secure, resilient and audit-ready solutions. The Director partners across security, technology, risk, audit and business teams to prioritize high-value automation and development opportunities, guide architecture and delivery, manage stakeholder expectations, and develop technical talent capable of advancing Northern Trust’s cyber defense capabilities at enterprise scale.