Payments Systems Specialist — SDLC & Data Migrations

Wintrust Financial Corporation; Rosemont (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

401(k) plan with company match

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan at 5%

Critical Illness Insurance

Accident Insurance

Transportation and Commuting Benefits

Banking Benefits

Pet Insurance Compensation

Job summary

Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont, IL is seeking an Advanced Application Specialist to support and implement change across debit card technology and payment systems. You will ensure day-to-day operations, support change management, testing, and defect management, and work with vendors and internal teams to deliver robust solutions.

The role emphasizes understanding interdependencies across applications and infrastructure, ongoing learning of evolving business and tech landscapes, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience plus 3-5 years working in a banking or financial services environment with special emphasis on applications implementation, testing, maintenance, configuration, and support.
• Advanced understanding of data at both a functional and technical level in order to troubleshoot and identify potential issues.
• Advanced understanding of how to troubleshoot application/system performance.
• Working knowledge of hardware and systems software technologies, network infrastructure, and integration of diverse technology to deliver scalable, robust, and high-performance solutions.
• Ability to analyze, learn, and apply rapidly changing technologies, and apply them as part of integrated solutions to business requirements.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Write and maintain system documentation, process maps, test scripts, use cases, user stories, root cause analysis, and high level integration and data flows.
• Participate on cross-functional teams to support and define business and technical requirements, operational processes, application strategy and project/product implementation.
• Author complex system reports and data integration/migration templates.
• Write and utilize light-weight scripting and file formatting utilities/configurations in support of applications and customer specifications.
• Design and administer application software configuration to meet the business process design and application requirements.
• Support complex acquisition and conversion teams to ensure acquired entities data and/or systems are accurately migrated over to the new environments.

Skills

Banking/financial services experience

SDLC

Application testing

Data troubleshooting

System performance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont, IL is seeking an Advanced Application Specialist to support and implement change across debit card technology and payment systems. You will ensure day-to-day operations, support change management, testing, and defect management, and work with vendors and internal teams to deliver robust solutions.

The role emphasizes understanding interdependencies across applications and infrastructure, ongoing learning of evolving business and tech landscapes, and