Capability Lead - Banking

Role Summary

The Capability Lead – Banking is a senior leadership role responsible for defining, shaping, and delivering the digital banking capability across Wealth Management. This includes end-to-end ownership of the vision, roadmap, and execution across deposits, lending, servicing, and transaction experiences, ensuring alignment to business priorities and delivering measurable client and partner impact.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a multi-year roadmap that spans core banking journeys such as account opening, lending, servicing, and transaction processing, ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities and platform evolution.
• Lead the continued modernization of banking experiences, streamlining key workflows and evolving the platform to support more intuitive, efficient, and scalable client and partner interactions.
• Integrate and advance payment and money movement capabilities as a seamless part of the broader banking experience, ensuring consistency in delivery, performance, and user experience.
• Work closely with business, technology, operations, risk, and design partners to ensure that solutions are delivered effectively and generate meaningful outcomes in terms of client experience, operational efficiency, and scalability.
• Build and lead a high-performing team, reinforcing strong execution discipline, clear accountability, and a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Manage financial aspects, including ownership of capital and expense planning and ensuring that investments are aligned to the highest-impact priorities.

Necessary Qualifications & Experience

• Significant experience in digital banking, product, or capability leadership roles, with strong familiarity across deposit, lending, and servicing journeys.
• A proven track record of leading large-scale transformation initiatives and delivering in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills to drive alignment and deliver outcomes at scale.

Salary Range

$137,400 - 233,600 USD

Benefits

Includes 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. Also includes a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.

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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com, or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.