Senior Identity Access Management Engineer

Wintrust•Rosemont, IL

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.” 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 Senior Identity Access Management Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining critical security systems within the Identity domain. This role serves as the subject matter expert (SME) focused on privileged access management and NHI. As the technical leader experienced in managing hybrid IAM environments, this role requires a strong understanding of IAM best practices, emerging technologies, and the evolving threat landscape.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
5-7 years of prior hands-on professional experience
Proven experience in architecting, deploying, and managing an enterprise PAM environment with specialized knowledge related to Delinea Secret Server or EntraID PIM
Demonstrated ability in removing standing privilege by leveraging just-in-time access or other dynamic elevation models
Hands-on experience with cloud migrations while managing complex hybrid Active Directory environments

Responsibilities

Contribute to IAM roadmap and vision.
Working with security architecture, champion zero trust implementation, least privilege, and Just-in-Time elevation.
Expert understanding of Delinea/Thycotic products offerings on-prem and cloud.
Deep understanding of account discovery, automated account management, custom scripts and hybrid environment operations/maintenance.
Govern Non-Human Identity (NHI) – Lead the lifecycle management of NHI and emerging AI agents, identify and manage standing privilege and secure machine to machine (m2m) interactions across the hybrid environment.
Cross-Functional liaison to IT – A thorough understanding of Active Directory, EntraID, authentication protocols (Kerberos/SAML/OIDC), Conditional Access and AD sync will be used to implement secure and scalable systems.
Automation and Scripting – Using bash, python, or PowerShell etc., support programmatic credential rotation, API integrations and administrative tasks.
Define IT Policy Standards and Security Governance related to privileged accounts