Senior IT Project Manager

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Rosemont, ILtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
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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 8 years) and Employee Recommended award by Globe & Mail (past 6 years)
* Competitive pay and discretionary 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
* We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun
* This role offers the ability to make an impact and interface with IT and the various aspects of Wintrust’s businesses
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* What you’ll do:

** The Senior IT Project Manager / Assistance Vice President (AVP) orchestrates the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closing of projects with a specific term that have a beginning, an end and specified technology deliverables. The IT Senior Project Manager is responsible for communicating and integrating IT activities into the broader plan held with the business unit/s.
The Senior IT Project Manager acts as primary point of contact for project stakeholders across IT, IS, and IT vendors.
The Senior IT Project Manager provides technology artifacts to support the movement of projects / programs through the Enterprise Project Management Office (ePMO) governance process including ePMO processes, templates and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Clarity tool updates.  The Senior IT Project Manager defines and maintains project plans, inclusive of scope, milestones, dependencies and technology deliverables.  The Senior IT Project Manager is expected to have exposure to enterprise architecture, core banking systems, SaaS applications framework.

The Senior IT Project Manager creates, manages and reports on projects / programs, technology, financials and budget.  Projects may vary in number, size and complexity. Generally, manages moderate to high complexity, large to extra-large sized projects.

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* Key Accountabilities:

*** Project Ownership
* Project Life Cycle:  + Plan the Project  + Execute the Project  + Monitor and Control the Project  + Close the Project
* Technology Governance & Architecture Alignment
* Efficiencies / Continuous Improvement
* Other Duties, as assigned
* People:  + Participate in the recruiting and hiring of IT PMO staff, consultants and temp workers with appropriate skills  + Take part to onboard new team members to the IT PMO team, Wintrust Technology and Wintrust Corporation  + Mentor the team in the creation of all project artifacts, including project plans, statements of work, status reports, etc.  + Build and maintain influential relationships across business, technology, compliance, legal, and external partner organizations.
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* Qualifications:

*** 5-10 years of related experience
* Financial Services or Financial systems at mid-to-large organizations experience, preferred
* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
* Resolve non-routine problems
* Exercise judgement within defined procedures and practices
* Require minimum supervision
* Track project actuals vs. budget. Validate receipt of goods/services before authorizing invoice payments. Prepare…