[Hiring] Enterprise Data Delivery Specialist @Northern Trust

Role Description

Lead enterprise-wide Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives across client, product, third-party, and account domains, ensuring high-quality, integrated master data to support our data governance and digital transformation goals.

• Own and lead assigned Master Data subdomains (e.g., Client, Product, Reference Data), ensuring data integrity, consistency, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Drive end-to-end data quality initiatives, from profiling and issue identification through root cause analysis, remediation design, and execution.
• Perform deep-dive data analysis and profiling to identify patterns, anomalies, and opportunities for improving data accuracy and completeness.
• Define and implement data quality rules, controls, and monitoring frameworks to proactively manage data issues.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to resolve data issues at source, influencing process and system changes for sustainable improvement.
• Lead data governance and stewardship activities, including management of critical data elements (CDEs), metadata, lineage, and business rules.
• Collaborate with technology and architecture teams on data ingestion, integration, and MDM enhancements, ensuring alignment to the target operating model.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across master data processes, including automation, standardization, and optimization of data flows.
• Support delivery of regulatory, operational, and analytical data requirements, ensuring trusted data is available for downstream consumption.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for assigned domains, guiding junior analysts and contributing to best practices across the MDM organization.

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL skills with the ability to query, join, reconcile, and analyze large datasets across multiple systems.
• Strong experience in data profiling and identifying data patterns, anomalies, and quality issues.
• Proven capability in data quality management including rule definition, defect analysis, and remediation tracking.
• Solid understanding of Master Data Management (MDM) concepts (match/merge, survivorship, golden record, stewardship).
• Experience with data governance practices, including metadata, lineage, and critical data element (CDE) management.
• Demonstrated ability to perform root cause analysis and drive resolution of data issues at source.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present insights and work effectively with business and technology stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field.

Requirements

• Applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom at the time of application and for the duration of employment.
• Please note that Northern Trust is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role. This includes Skilled Worker visas, Global Business Mobility routes, Graduate visas, Youth Mobility Scheme, High Potential Individual visas, Scale-up Worker visas, Temporary Worker visas, and other employer-sponsored visa categories.

Benefits

• Flexible and collaborative work culture.
• Encouragement for movement within the organization.
• Accessible senior leaders.
• Commitment to an inclusive workplace and community assistance.
• Philanthropy deeply rooted in the company’s history and culture.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected], or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.