SVP, Director Banking Business Technology Officer

Wintrust Financial Corporation•Rosemont, IL

8d•$169,000 - $228,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Wintrust is seeking a Senior Vice President, Business Technology Officer to lead the technology vision, strategy, and execution for its Banking Products, including Deposits, Payments and Digital Banking. This role serves as the primary technology leader and strategic partner to the business unit’s executive leadership team, assuming responsibility for ensuring that technology, data, and digital capabilities drive business growth, operational efficiency, and customer value. The Business Technology Officer will shape how technology enables the business by overseeing a portfolio of platforms, applications, and services that differentiate the business unit in its markets while maintaining alignment with overall Wintrust strategy, enterprise architecture, governance, information security, compliance and regulatory risk frameworks. This is a strategic leadership opportunity — the ideal candidate will be a technology leader who excels at the intersection of business strategy, digital innovation, and collaboration across a wide variety of business and vendor relationships. This role acts as a trusted partner to executive leadership, identifying opportunities for digital transformation, automation, data analytics, and AI-driven innovation in support of Wintrust’s overall enterprise goals. This will be accomplished through the development of IT strategic plans and roadmaps, managing project intake submissions aligned to business priorities, and enabling projects across supported business lines by engaging stakeholders through Wintrust’s Initiative Committee prioritization process.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in a Senior Technology Leadership role
Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and quality assurance processes
Proven experience in managing large-scale technological initiatives from intake to execution and completion (including P&L responsibilities)
Excellent leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills; must be able to communicate complex technical information to business stakeholders in a meaningful manner and with senior leadership
Familiarity with project management tools (e.g. Clarity, Jira, Adobe Workfront) and IT Service Management tools (ServiceNow)

Nice To Haves

A Masters degree in computer science, information systems and/or an MBA is a plus
Industry standard certifications such as ISACA’s Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), or related certifications from NIST, ISC2, ITIL, PMI and others preferred

Responsibilities

Lead the technology vision, strategy, and execution for your assigned business units and serve as the primary technology leader and strategic partner to the business unit’s executive leadership team and their direct reports — responsible for ensuring that technology roadmaps and digital capabilities drive business growth, operational efficiency, and customer value.
Act as the principal IT point of contact, and business facing role, for all IT requirements as well as problem escalation and remediation for supported business lines.
Act as advocate for the businesses and simplify and demystify the IT organization for the business, ensure their priorities are executed, identify appropriate, cost-effective solutions, and resolve issues in a timely and direct fashion.
Shape how technology enables the business, overseeing the support and implementation of their assigned business units’ portfolio of platforms, applications, and services that differentiate the business unit while maintaining and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, architectural standards review boards, data governance, regulatory, enterprise risk and information security frameworks.
Review and guide along new software and applications through the Vendor Risk and Software Asset Management (SAM) intake process and ensure these align and conform to Wintrust’s standards.
Work with the various teams within IT and the business and facilitate a demand intake and disposition process to review initiatives and designate them as either “Projects” (significant workstreams that impact multiple lines of business that will need to be reviewed, approved and prioritized by Executive Leadership), or “Activities” that align to “Business As Usual” (BAU).
Work with IT Leadership to accurately disposition these initiatives and oversee both Projects and Activities throughout their life cycle.
Partner with Information Security and Enterprise Risk to identify and manage overall risk to the organization, by performing risk assessments and disaster recovery planning specific to the business unit’s operational landscape.
Partner with IT Risk and oversee an incident handling program for your lines of business to identify and classify problems based upon priority and severity impact.
Conduct root cause analysis for incidents which result in the highest priority and severity and monitor the control environment in a continuous fashion by reviewing assessment and internal audit findings and verifying the program is operating effectively.
Position yourself and your team to act as enforcers across your business lines to ensure compliance with enterprise standards for data, architecture, and security.
Oversee end-to-end technology project delivery for the business unit, including applications, enterprise operations, data management, information security, and vendor risk management including the tracking and management of key performance indicators (KPIs), key risk indicators (KRIs), and other measures of application and project health.
Partner with the Business Unit CFOs, Wintrust’s Enterprise CFO, and both Finance and IT team members supporting budgets to ensure that projects and costs are aligned to Executive Leadership’s approved budget estimates and keep project costs and timelines aligned.
Understand and communicate to the business the services where IT allocates costs back to the business units and assist with budget developments and updates as needed.