01Overview
About Northern Trust
As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world's most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.
Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.
With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Position Summary
The Product & Functional Lead for Knowledge Management and Availability Management is responsible for defining the vision, strategy, governance, adoption, and continuous improvement of these enterprise ITSM capabilities.
This role serves as the functional owner for the associated processes, platforms, reporting, and business outcomes, ensuring alignment with ITIL best practices, organizational objectives, and operational resilience goals. The position drives service excellence through robust governance, measurable KPIs and OKRs, data-driven decision making, and modern capabilities including AI, automation, predictive analytics, and self-service enablement
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Functional Ownership
Define and maintain the roadmap, governance model, and maturity plan for Knowledge Management and Availability Management.
Act as the functional owner for associated processes, capabilities, policies, standards, and controls.
Ensure alignment with ITIL practices, compliance requirements, audit expectations, and business objectives.
Drive process standardization, adoption, effectiveness, and continual service improvement across global technology teams.
Partner with business and technology stakeholders to prioritize enhancements and improvements. Knowledge Management
Govern the enterprise Knowledge Management framework and lifecycle.
Ensure knowledge assets remain accurate, relevant, searchable, and fit for purpose.
Drive knowledge reuse, self-service adoption, and operational efficiency.
Leverage AI capabilities to improve knowledge creation, summarization, search, recommendations, and content quality.
Establish measurable outcomes for knowledge effectiveness, quality, ownership, and user adoption. Availability Management
Define service availability objectives, standards, KPIs, and resilience requirements.
Monitor availability performance, recurring outages, reliability trends, and service risks.
Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, Platform, and Application teams to improve service resilience.
Utilize predictive analytics and operational intelligence to proactively identify availability risks and service degradation.
Support business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational readiness initiatives. Performance Management & Reporting
Establish KPI and OKR frameworks aligned to strategic and operational objectives.
Develop executive dashboards and governance reporting using Power BI and analytics tools.
Provide transparent reporting on process health, service performance, risks, compliance, and improvement initiatives.
Measure and communicate business value realized through process optimization, automation, and AI adoption.
Drive evidence-based decision making through meaningful operational insights. Innovation, Automation & Analytics
Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and modernize ITSM capabilities.
Champion the adoption of AI, GenAI, Power Platform, AIOps, and workflow automation solutions.
Drive automation of operational activities, reporting, process controls, and knowledge lifecycle management.
Promote responsible AI governance and effective use of emerging technologies.
Collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Data, and Service Management teams to accelerate innovation and improve user experience. Stakeholder Management
Build strong partnerships across Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Business teams.
Lead governance forums, service reviews, and stakeholder engagement activities.
Drive organizational awareness, training, and adoption of process standards and capabilities.
Serve as the primary escalation point for functional governance and performance issues. Qualifications & Experience
Required
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related discipline.
15+ years of experience in IT Service Management, Service Delivery, Operations, Governance, or Product Management.
Strong expertise in Knowledge Management, Availability Management, and ITIL practices.
Experience defining KPIs, OKRs, governance frameworks, and .
