Wintrust provides community and commercial banking, specialty finance and wealth management services through its 16 bank charters and nine non-bank businesses. Wintrust delivers the sophisticated solutions of a large bank while staying true to the relationship-focused, personalized service of our community banking roots. We serve clients in all 50 states with more than 200 branch banking locations in Illinois, southwestern Florida, northwestern Indiana, west Michigan and southern Wisconsin and commercial banking offices in Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Mich., and in key branch banking locations throughout Illinois. Our people are the heart of our business and we are proud to rank consistently as a top place to work. Wintrust is a $66 billion financial institution based in Rosemont, Illinois, and listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “WTFC.”

Why join us?

• An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 12 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years)

• Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible

• Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few

• Promote from within culture

Why join this team?

• This position has the opportunity to interface with and have a positive impact on multiple areas of Wintrust's business

• We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun

Position Overview

The Principal Application Specialist - Lending is the most senior application support position and serves as a key subject matter expert across the business domains they support. Additionally, this role is the team leader of the IT loan application support team. They are accountable for ensuring the day-to-day operations of the systems under their charge and for supporting and implementing change and configuration management, including testing and defect management relating to new product implementations, development releases, upgrades, patches, and other system maintenance as required. Application Specialists will work closely with Business resources and stakeholders, internal Technology teams, and various vendors and third-party consultants and implementers. They must understand their application’s interdependencies with other applications and infrastructure both internally and outside the corporate network.

Ongoing knowledge of current and changing business and technological environments, trends and strategy is important to success. This position will also support/lead acquisition and conversion activities related to their business domains.

What You’ll Do

• Handling of day-to-day workflow (monitoring ticket system, e-mail, daily tasks, ongoing training) and Level 3 support and troubleshooting of complex issues

• Support/Lead acquisition and conversion activities including data mapping, completion of complex translation tables, reviewing conversion balancing and reconciliation reports, implementation of a new application system, functionality, or integration

• Supporting line of business process improvement and efficiency initiatives

• System tuning and optimization

• Supporting change management and product/project implementation

• Provide leadership, mentoring and training, and develop best practice processes and procedures

• Technical application(s) ownership including evaluation new releases/functionality and monitoring application roadmaps and support bulletins

Qualifications

• 10+ years working in a banking or financial services environment with special emphasis on applications implementation, testing, maintenance, configuration, and support

• Minimum of 5 years of recent management experience

• Experience building complex workflows and business process maps required

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Expert level experience in the following technologies or similar a plus:

  • FIS (Fidelity Information Systems) core banking & financial products & services

  • Digital and Mobile Banking Platforms

  • Strong understanding of loan origination, servicing, documentation or other lending technologies and processes.

  • Payment Processing Systems (Wires, ACH, etc.)

  • Microsoft technologies (SQL, Azure, Office 365, .NET)

  • Cisco Networking

  • Application Programming Interfaces (API) and micro services technologies

  • Representational state transfer (REST) architecture

  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Salesforce

  • ServiceNow

  • MuleSoft middleware

  • Oracle, JAVA and Open Source technologies

  • VBScript or other scripting languages

Benefits

Medical Insurance • Dental • Vision • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment • Short-term and long-term Disability Insurance • Parental Leave • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Traditional and Roth 401(k) with company match • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) • Employee Stock Purchase Plan at 5% discount • Critical Illness Insurance • Accident Insurance • Transportation and Commuting Benefits • Banking Benefits • Pet Insurance

Compensation

The estimated salary range for this role is $140,000.00 - $170,000.00, along with eligibility to earn an annual bonus. Actual salaries may vary based on several factors, such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills and experience.

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From our first day in business, Wintrust has been proud to serve a variety of unique communities and people from all walks of life.  To build a company that reflects the communities we serve, we believe that fostering a unique and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to succeed will support our ongoing success.  Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.