Lead Senior Application Specialist – IT Banking

Wintrust Financial Corporation; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Bonus eligible

Job summary

Wintrust Financial Corporation, a growing banking and financial services company, is seeking a Manager, Senior Application Specialist for IT Banking Support in Rosemont, IL. The role focuses on ensuring day-to-day operations of supported systems, testing, and change management across product implementations and upgrades.

Ideal candidates have extensive experience with core banking systems (FIS/CLS/ACBS), API/microservices, and integration with lending platforms.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of relevant experience with applications implementation, testing, maintenance, configuration, releases, upgrades, new products and support.

Responsibilities

• Handle day-to-day workflow (monitoring ticket system, e-mail, daily tasks, ongoing training) and provide Level 2 support for complex issues.
• Lead data mapping, completion of translation tables, reviewing conversion balancing and reconciliation reports, and implementing new applications or integrations.
• Support business process improvements and efficiency initiatives; tune and optimize systems.
• Support change management and product/project implementations; provide leadership, mentoring and training; develop best practices.
• Own technical applications including evaluating new releases/functionality and monitoring roadmaps and bulletins.

Tools

Salesforce

ServiceNow

VBScript

Job description

Wintrust Financial Corporation, a growing banking and financial services company, is seeking a Manager, Senior Application Specialist for IT Banking Support in Rosemont, IL. The role focuses on ensuring day-to-day operations of supported systems, testing, and change management across product implementations and upgrades.

Ideal candidates have extensive experience with core banking systems (FIS/CLS/ACBS), API/microservices, and integration with lending platforms.