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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.”\nWhy join us?\nAn award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 12 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years)\nCompetitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible\nComprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few\nPromote from within culture\nWhy join this team?\nThis position has the opportunity to interface with and have a positive impact on multiple areas of Wintrust's business\nWe hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun\nPosition Overview\nThe Advanced Application Specialist is a mid-level position and serves as a subject matter contributor across various debit card technology and other payment systems. 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. 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 interdependencies with other applications and infrastructure both internally and outside the corporate network.\nOngoing 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.\nWhat You’ll Do\nSupport the enterprise change management and software development lifecycle (SDLC) process including providing testing, defect management, peer review, and release management ensuring appropriate segregation of duties\n· Write and maintain system documentation, process maps, test scripts, use cases, user stories, root cause analysis, and high level integration and data flows\n· Participate on cross-functional teams to support and define business and technical requirements, operational processes, application strategy and project/product implementation.\n· Author complex system reports and data integration/migration templates\n· Write and utilize light-weight scripting and file formatting utilities/configurations in support of applications and customer specifications\n· Design and administer application software configuration to meet the business process design and application requirements\n· Support complex acquisition and conversion teams to ensure acquired entities data and/or systems are accurately migrated over to the new environments\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience plus 3-5 years working in a banking or financial services environment with special emphasis on applications implementation, testing, maintenance, configuration, and support\nAdvanced understanding of data at both a functional and technical level in order to troubleshoot and identify potential issues\nAdvanced understanding of how to troubleshoot application/system performance\nWorking knowledge and understanding of hardware and systems software technologies, network infrastructure, and understands issues and details of integrating diverse technology to deliver scalable, robust, and high-performance solutions\nAbility to analyze, learn, and apply rapidly changing technologies, and apply them as part of integrated solutions to business requirements\nBenefits\nMedical Insurance\nDental\nVision\nLife insurance\nAccidental death and dismemberment\nShort-term and long-term Disability Insurance\nParental Leave\nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)\nTraditional and Roth 401(k) with company match\nFlexible Spending Account (FSA)\nEmployee Stock Purchase Plan at 5% discount\nCritical Illness Insurance\nAccident Insurance\nTransportation and Commuting Benefits\nBanking Benefits\nPet Insurance\nCompensation\nThe estimated salary range for this role is $90,000.00 - $120,000.00, along with eligibility to earn an annual bonus. 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