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.

Workday Integration Lead, Cash & Corporate technology, Chicago IL/Tempe AZ

For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and 20,000 employees globally. We serve the world's most-sophisticated clients - from sovereign wealth funds and the wealthiest individuals and families to the most-successful hedge funds and corporate brands.

We burnished our reputation as a global leader delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions enabled by sophisticated, leading technology. And through it all, we continually laid a solid, forward-looking foundation on which future generations can continue growing and achieving greater.

As of March 31, 2021, Northern Trust Corporation had:

• $10.9 trillion in assets under custody/administration


• $8.2 trillion in assets under custody


• $1.2 trillion in assets under management


• $122 billion in banking assets

Northern Trust is looking for a Workday Integration Lead

Job Description AND Principal Responsibilities

This role covers below responsibilities within Northern Trust:

• Resolve incidents/failures and ensure closure within the SLAs.


• Development of New Integrations within HR Workstream


• Lead new and ongoing Workday Projects


• Efficiently Debug issues incase of Production Failure


• Participate in root cause analysis and provide solution/work around for HR cases.


• Debug issues, incidents and provide solutions for the same through hands on development.


• Proactively identify & implement opportunities to increase efficiency through automation & process efficiencies.


• Participate in engineering efforts for ETL solutions i.e. system design, build, deployment, best practices and testing.


• Create change requests and follow up for approvals.


• Communicate with global stakeholders, other IT teams, and business areas.


• Provide Level 3 Support during the time of Production Failures


• Should be flexible for upskilling in different skill sets


• Work with upstream and downstream application teams for any risks or potential issues.

Experience/ Skills

Minimum qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering


• 7-8 years of work experience in in Workday, Integrations and API integration

Required Skills

• Hands on work experience with Workday


• Experience on Leading Workday Projects (preferably implementation experience)


• Able to write XSLT scripting both XSLT2.0/XSLT 3.0


• Hands on experience on Workday Studio


• Hands on experience in API integration either SOAP or Rest.


• Hands on experience on PECI/WECI/PICOF and Core Connectors


• Understanding of Payroll data and Experience on US payroll and Global Payroll


• Ability to resolve issues/troubleshoot application in a high-pressure & time critical environment.


• Experience with ITSM Service now tool and Dynatrace will be added advantage


• Self-motivated to initiate actions and be responsible for consequent decisions.


• Good programming and debugging skills.


• Strong analytical, design thinking and problem-solving skills.


• Strong written/verbal communications skills.


• Good team player and interpersonal skills.

Nice to Have Skills

• Hands on experience on ADO (Azure Devops).


• Exposure to Agile practices (Scrum /Kanban).


• Understanding of ITIL Process guidelines, with specific focus on Service Operations and Incident Management.


• Functional Knowledge of HR in finance business.


• ServiceNow Development

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.