Sr. Data Scientist

Chicago, IL, United States

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.

Job Description Summary

The responsibilities will consist mainly of collaborating with the business to help define and implement analytic solutions based on their business strategy. This role will work with the IT team to extract the required data, to create the analytic models and to perform the analysis once the data is accumulated, then present findings and recommendations to the business. The role will work across business units in a team environment with minimal supervision.

Job Description

Major Duties :

1. Work with the business leaders and stakeholders to understand their strategies, how they align with the corporate strategies and determine ways to use analytics to help them in decision making

2. Work across business units, to define and develop analytic capabilities that can be leveraged to solve cross business unit challenges

3. Support the analytical needs of various business units, help them with prioritization to deliver the most value

4. Analyze and understand Northern Trust’s core business processes and data flows to design and develop enduring solutions that provide analytical insights (both rearview, and predictive)

5. Ensure good techniques are used to report the data in a form that represents it well and to help the consumer of the data understand what is being stated clearly

6. Contribute to the development and delivery of solutions that: Leverage and extend existing Business Intelligence and analytics infrastructure; Take metric governance and enterprise solutions into consideration; Are scalable, repeatable and effective; Follow agreed upon governance and technology policies including use of Agile or SDLC process

7. Assist with applying and developing statistical models/methods to address business issues

8. Develop metrics and create ad-hoc reporting as needed

9. Assist internal customers with acceptance and adoption of implemented solutions to transition to an operating model that will deliver value from the analytics solution.

10. Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner

11. Rapidly and effectively adapt to highly dynamic and fast-paced work environment

12. Participate in special projects as needed and perform other duties as assigned

13. Foster a positive and collaborative environment

14. Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and / or business knowledge and functional expertise

15. Focus of role is on execution of strategic direction of business function activities

16. Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues

17. Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity Knowledge

· Excellent oral and written communication skills are required

· In-depth functional / industry knowledge is required

· Highly flexible and adaptable to change

· Technical skills / systems knowledge (e.g. python, SQL etc.) is required

· Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Business Unit's goals, resources needed, and to assess and develop the skills of staff

· Database systems competence is expected

· Familiarity with data analysis and/or reporting

· Strong mathematical skills required

· Ability to manipulate large amounts of data for analytical projects and translate that data into sound insights

· Strong data and analytical skills

· Strong financial acumen and ability to work across the business

· Experience with SQL and Excel

· Strong communication skills

· Strong project management skills

· Strong team / relationship building skills

· Familiarity with other analytics tools (e.g., PowerBI, AzureML, Tableau etc.) preferred

· Familiarity with relational database concepts, querying, data warehouses, requirements gathering and/or decision support tools preferred

· Prior experience using statistical software or knowledge of various data mining and analytical tools (SAS, etc.) preferred

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 [email protected].

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.