Business Systems Manager

Busey Bank; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Profit sharing

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Medical

Dental

Vision

Company-paid life insurance

Long-term disability

Supplemental voluntary life insurance

Short-term & long-term disability

Wellness incentives

Employee assistance program

Pre-tax health savings accounts

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Busey Bank is seeking a Business Systems Manager to lead critical systems supporting efficiency, client experience, risk management, and scalable growth. You will partner with vendors, lines of business, and stakeholders to deliver value and ensure adoption of technology solutions across the organization.

The role emphasizes evaluating needs, developing requirements, supporting implementations, and guiding a team to reliable delivery while maintaining compliance and data security standards.

Qualifications

• Executive communication, leadership, influencing, and presentation skills.
• Strong reporting and documentation skills.
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management, technology operations, and system governance.
• Strategic, curious, and a creative thinker.
• 4+ years of experience managing and leading technology teams.
• Experience with core banking solutions such as Jack Henry or FIS.
• Experience with mergers and acquisitions integrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end lifecycle of key business systems, including enhancements, releases, upgrades, integrations, and production support.
• Oversee incident, problem, and change management processes with root cause analysis.
• Maintain metrics, dashboards, and reporting on uptime, defects, backlog, and quality.
• Coordinate integrations across internal/external platforms and APIs.
• Plan and oversee testing to ensure quality and standards.
• Build partnerships with leaders to drive adoption and value.

Skills

Executive communication, leadership, &

Strong reporting & documentation

Lifecycle management & governance

Strategic, curious, creative thinking

Team leadership

M&A integration experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Admin, MIS, Finance, or related area

Tools

ServiceNow

Power BI

Excel

AI automation tools

Jack Henry / FIS core banking

Job description

Position Summary

The Business Systems Manager leads business-critical systems and technology solutions that support operational efficiency, client experience, risk management, and scalable growth. This role partners with vendors, business lines, and enterprise stakeholders to align system capabilities with strategic priorities and ensure successful adoption across the organization. The Business Systems Manager is responsible for evaluating business needs, recommending practical technology solutions, developing requirements, supporting implementation, and leading a team responsible for reliable system delivery and service quality.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of key business systems, including enhancements, releases, upgrades, integrations, and production support.


• Support day-to-day business processing needs for internal partners and external clients while advancing the company’s strategic initiatives.


• Oversee incident, problem, and change management processes, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention of recurring issues.


• Maintain clear metrics, dashboards, and reporting to monitor system uptime, defect trends, backlog, release readiness, and service quality.


• Approve and oversee procedures for system management activities, fostering consistency, adoption of best practices, and continuous improvement.


• Recommend items for inclusion in the enterprise technology annual operating budget, including in-production systems.


• Monitor and track departmental expenditures within approved budget.


• Analyze, design, and implement process improvements across various teams across the enterprise.


• Partner with business leaders to plan implementation, training, adoption, and ongoing support for enterprise systems.


• Coordinate integrations across internal and external platforms, data flows, APIs, vendor systems, and enterprise services.


• Evaluate emerging business needs and recommend scalable solutions that support future growth, operational resiliency, and client experience.


• Evaluate return on investment and guide activities toward efficient, cost-effective solutions that deliver measurable business value.


• Plan and oversee effective testing processes to ensure deliverables meet quality, control, and implementation standards.


• Build strong partnerships with functional leaders by understanding business objectives and delivering systems and applications that create value across the organization.


• Manage team capacity, resource planning, skills development, performance feedback, and prioritization of work.


• Improve business unit capabilities through innovative technologies and processes.


• Recruit, develop, and retain skilled talent to execute the technology strategy and support corporate initiatives.


• Build a culture of accountability, continuous learning, operational excellence, and practical problem-solving.


• Ensure products and software platforms comply with federal regulations, internal controls, and data security standards.

Education & Experience

• Knowledge: Executive communication, leadership, influencing, and presentation skills


• Strong reporting and documentation skills


• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management, technology operations, and system governance


• Strategic, curious, and a creative thinker


• 4+ years of experience managing and leading technology teams


• Exceptional service orientation and client focus


• Demonstrated experience in the strategic use of technology to innovate business delivery


• Experience supporting integration related to mergers and acquisitions


• Ability: Take independent action within established options and develops new procedures and approaches to problems when necessary


• Analyze assignments where application of advanced or technical concepts is required; think outside of the box to develop solutions for complex problems


• Maintain visual attention and mental concentration for extended periods of time


• Perform duties and make decisions under frequent time pressures and within budget


• Work with technical and non-technical business owners to achieve results in alignment with strategic priorities


• Collaborate with high energy and focus, driving results across multiple projects


• Education: Requires Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Finance, or related area or equivalent experience.


• Requires 4 - 6 years of senior technology operations or senior infrastructure support experience.


• Requires 4 years of experience with core banking solutions, such as Jack Henry or FIS.


• Preferred 3+ years of experience with core banking, integration, or digital solutions such as jXchange, 4|sight, Q2 Digital Banking, Synergy, Teller Capture, Centrix, Terafina, or Verafin.


• Requires experience with ServiceNow or similar solutions.


• Technical proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite, including advanced Excel and Power BI skills, as well as AI and automation tools.

Compensation and Benefits

Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance. (Base Pay Range: $93,000-$132,000/year)

• 401(k) match


• profit sharing


• employee stock purchase plan


• paid time off


• medical


• dental


• vision


• company-paid life insurance


• long-term disability


• supplemental voluntary life insurance


• short-term and long-term disability


• wellness incentives


• employee assistance program


• pre-tax health savings accounts


• flexible spending accounts

Equal Opportunity

Equal Opportunity Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey’s commitment of delivering service excellence.

Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets.

Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey’s Equal Opportunity Employment.

Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey's commitment of delivering extraordinary excellence.

Unsolicited Resumes

Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails.

Location & Work Arrangements

Busey offers diverse employment opportunities - both remote and onsite in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. We strive to place talent applicants in positions that fit both their skillset and career goals. As part of Team Busey, we promise to provide challenges that both drive your career progression and allow opportunities for growth!

Culture

Every day, our associates live Busey’s core values, doing better business, building stronger relationships and creating thriving communities—while delivering meaningful value to shareholders.