Advanced Application Specialist

Wintrust provides community and commercial banking, specialty finance and wealth management services through its 16 bank charters and nine non-bank businesses. Wintrust delivers the sophisticated solutions of a large bank while staying true to the relationship-focused, personalized service of our community banking roots. We serve clients in all 50 states with more than 200 branch banking locations in Illinois, southwestern Florida, northwestern Indiana, west Michigan and southern Wisconsin and commercial banking offices in Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Mich.,

and in key branch banking locations throughout Illinois. Our people are the heart of our business and we are proud to rank consistently as a top place to work. Wintrust is a $66 billion financial institution based in Rosemont, Illinois, and listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “WTFC.”

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) Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few Promote from within culture

This position has the opportunity to interface with and have a positive impact on multiple areas of Wintrust's business We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun

The Advanced Loan Application Specialist is a mid-level position and serves as a subject matter contributor 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.

Advanced 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 application’s function within the application itself alongside interdependencies with other applications and infrastructure both internally and outside the corporate network. Must have and demonstrate critical thinking skills. Ongoing knowledge of current and changing business and technological environments, trends and strategy is important to success.

This position will also support acquisition and conversion activities related to their business domains.

Provide primary support the core banking systems FIS (Fidelity Information Systems) IBS (Integrated Banking System) and ACBS (Advanced Commercial Banking System). Assist with troubleshooting issues encountered with Application Programming Interfaces (API) and micro services technologies Support complex acquisition and conversion teams to ensure acquired entities data and/or systems are accurately migrated over to the new environments Provide secondary support for other Lending Solutions including but not limited to Laser Pro, CRA Wiz, Factor Soft, Moody’s Credit Lens, International Services systems such as CIBAR or FX360 Salesforce Provide Tier 1 application-level support and troubleshooting Understand the interdependencies of systems and data across their business line to identify and analyze impacts as applications and systems are integrated, changed/upgraded and retired Must be willing to provide support 24x7x365

3-5 years of lending experience in a business an/or IT setting Complex, analytical problem…