Senior Lending Applications Lead & Tech SME

RK Management Consultants, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

RK Management Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Principal Application Specialist - Lending in Chicago to lead a loan application support team and own day-to-day system operations across lending domains.

You will guide change/configuration management, testing, and defect handling for product releases, upgrades and patches while coordinating with business units, IT teams and external partners.

Qualifications

• 10+ years working in a banking/financial services environment with 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.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Expert level experience in FIS core banking, digital/mobile banking platforms, banking-related APIs and microservices, REST, SOA, AWS, ServiceNow, Oracle, JAVA and open source technologies.

Responsibilities

• Handle day-to-day workflow, monitor ticket systems and provide Level 3 support for complex issues.
• Lead acquisition and conversion activities including data mapping, conversion balancing, and implementation of new applications or integrations.
• Support business process improvement and efficiency initiatives.
• Tune and optimize systems for performance.
• Support change management and product/project implementations.
• Provide leadership, mentoring and training, and develop best-practice processes.
• Oversee ownership of technical applications including evaluating new releases and monitoring roadmaps.

Skills

Banking domain knowledge

Leadership

Communication

Business process mapping

Change management

Tools

FIS core banking

Digital & Mobile Banking

APIs & microservices

REST

SOA

AWS

ServiceNow

Oracle

Java

Open Source technologies

Job description

RK Management Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Principal Application Specialist - Lending in Chicago to lead a loan application support team and own day-to-day system operations across lending domains.

You will guide change/configuration management, testing, and defect handling for product releases, upgrades and patches while coordinating with business units, IT teams and external partners.