Cyber Security Threat Management Lead

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.

This role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing the cybersecurity team’s response to proactive, emerging, and observed threats, with explicit focus on AI‑enabled attack techniques and AI‑related enterprise risks, alongside traditional cyber threats. This role serves as a central coordinator across detection, threat intelligence, incident response, and technology teams to ensure the organization is prepared for, and can rapidly respond to, AI‑driven threat activity.

Key responsibilities:

• Plan and maintain proactive threat scenarios and response playbooks with emphasis on AI‑enabled and emerging attack techniques.
• Coordinate cross‑functional response to observed and suspected threats, ensuring timely triage, escalation, and containment.
• Partner with SOC, detection engineering, and threat intelligence to identify coverage gaps and improve detection for AI‑assisted attacks and automation misuse.
• Serve as the central coordinator and subject matter expert for AI‑related threats across cybersecurity, technology, risk, and business teams.
• Produce executive‑ and regulator‑ready reporting, metrics, and documentation demonstrating preparedness and response effectiveness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cybersecurity experience with demonstrated leadership in threat management, incident response, or security operations.
• Strong understanding of modern adversary TTPs, including AI‑enabled threats, automation abuse, and emerging attack techniques.
• Proven ability to coordinate complex security responses and communicate clearly with technical teams, executives, and regulators.

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)

Salary Range:

$99,600 - 169,200 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.

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.