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.”

Working Model - Hybrid. 3 days per week in office.

Why join us?

• An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 11 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

Why join this team?

• 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

What you’ll do:

The Senior Middleware Developer is a key position within the Data Management team, responsible for the development, test, and implementation of best coding practices in complex Integration solutions for the organization, including application connectivity, performance, security and audit. This role will be engaged in all phases of the API lifecycle and follows all the best practices that were put in place. Successful candidate will have a proven track record demonstrating sound technical and business knowledge.

• Design, development and continuous improvement of complex and critical data projects.

• Design and develop data ingestion frameworks, leveraging open-source tools and data processing frameworks.

• Enhance data solutions that enables seamless integration and flow of data across the data ecosystem.

• Participates in and supports initiatives outside of main area of responsibility.

• Support/enhance/create data solutions to ensure business continuity, ensuring all related processes meets best-in-class standards offering high performance.

• Support and maintain existing integration solutions for Middleware systems for operational and analytical applications.

• Required to work in other areas of Data Enablement lifecycle as needed.

• Work on the API specification documentation.

• Ensure DevOps (especially CI/CD) practices are implemented for all data solutions.

• Required to work in other areas of Data Enablement lifecycle, including batch and real time processes using SQL Server, SSIS ETL/ETL, MuleSoft as needed.

• Provides technical leadership for projects. Subject matter expertise and technical expert to the point of being sought out for information and advice.

• Define and design processes for implementing and validating data lineage, quality checks, classification, sensitive data remediation etc. to ensure data governance policies are followed.

• Define and design audit, balance and control mechanisms that are to be followed for all data flows.

• Shapes coding methodologies and best practices.

• Provide feedback and signoff, including preparing technical specifications and detail level design documents.

• Prototyping and delivering data integrations and applications in varied deployment models – on premise, cloud, and hybrid.

• Provides sign off on code reviews at lead level.

• Explore the use cases that warrants implementation of real time processing solutions.

• Conducts research and evaluate and recommend technology solutions.

• Supports and guides junior team members.

• Serves as resource to internal and third-party team members on escalated issues and analyzing and designing specifications for less experienced team members.

• Promote a risk aware culture and ensure efficient and effective compliance management standards and practices.

• Pursues self-development and effective relationships with others by sharing resources, information, and knowledge with coworkers and customers.

• Design and develop Custom connectors in MuleSoft and reuse them as needed.

• Develop scripts to automate the monotonous time-consuming activities like updating a POM file in all APIs etc.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years’ experience or Master’s degree with 5+ years’ experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or other quantitative field.

• 5+ years’ experience in Application development - designing, implementing data persistence, data processing, data integration and MDM Solutions.

• 3+ years of experience working in MuleSoft Platform and development. MuleSoft Cloudhub experience is an added advantage.

• Has broad knowledge of the entire domain. Strong awareness of the data and the team.

• Has experience utilizing DW technologies, Middleware technologies, MDM, big data tools including Hadoop and Spark eco system, including tools like Python/Scala.

• Experience with design of traditional DW and Big Data Systems which requires queries returning within sub-second response times.

• Experience in designing and building complex data pipelines moving and transforming data for ODS, Staging, Data Warehousing and Data Marts, MDM, including Middleware Integrations.

• Experience with complex large-scale data and query optimization techniques.

• Experience with implementing of audit, balance, and control mechanism in integration solutions.

• Strong understanding of Domain Driven Design and Middleware concepts for modern integration infrastructure such as API Management, ESB, and MDM concepts.

Benefits:

Medical Insurance • Dental • Vision • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment • Short-term and long-term Disability Insurance • Parental Leave • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Traditional and Roth 401(k) with company match • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) • Employee Stock Purchase Plan at 5% discount • Critical Illness Insurance • Accident Insurance • Transportation and Commuting Benefits • Banking Benefits • Pet Insurance

Compensation:

The estimated salary range for this role is $100, 000-$135, 000, along with eligibility to earn an annual bonus. Actual salaries may vary based on several factors, such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and experience.

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From our first day in business, Wintrust has been proud to serve a variety of unique communities and people from all walks of life. To build a company that reflects the communities we serve, we believe that fostering a unique and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to succeed will support our ongoing success. Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.