at Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Wintrust is a financial holding company with approximately $50 billion assets under management and traded on the NASDAQ:WTFC. Built on the "HAVE IT ALL" model, Wintrust offers sophisticated technology and resources of a large bank while focusing on providing service-based community banking to each and every customer. Wintrust operates fifteen community bank subsidiaries with over 170 banking locations in the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin market areas. Additionally, Wintrust operates various non-bank business units including commercial and life insurance premium financing, short-term accounts receivable financing, out-sourced administrative services, mortgage origination and purchase, wealth management services and qualified intermediary services for tax-deferred exchanges.
Why join us?
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An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 10 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years)
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Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible
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Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few
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Promote from within culture.
Why join this team?
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This position has the opportunity to interface with and have a positive impact on multiple areas of Wintrust's business.
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We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun
Position Overview
The Sr. Application Specialist - Banking is a senior level position and serves as a subject matter expert across the business domains they support. 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 applications interdependencies with other applications and infrastructure both internally and outside the corporate network. As well as follow all compliance polices.
Ongoing knowledge of current and changing business and technological environments, trends and strategy is important to success. This position will support compliance applications and will focus on understanding and communicating how transactions/data flows from source systems to compliance systems.
What Youll Do
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Support the enterprise change management and software development lifecycle (SDLC) process including providing testing, defect management, peer review, and release management ensuring appropriate segregation of duties.
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Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills, capable of presenting complex issues in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner to the business, technical professionals, and leadership.
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Write and maintain system and release documentation, process maps, test scripts, use cases, user stories, root cause analysis, road maps and high-level integration and data flows.
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Write and utilize light-weight scripting and file formatting utilities/configurations in support of applications and customer specifications.
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Understand the interdependencies of systems and data across the banking business line to identify and analyze impacts as applications...
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