Business Architect - Wintrust Financial

Wintrust is a financial holding company with approximately $50 billion assets under management and traded on the NASDAQ:WTFC. Built on the "HAVE IT ALL" model, Wintrust offers sophisticated technology and resources of a large bank while focusing on providing service-based community banking to each and every customer. Wintrust operates fifteen community bank subsidiaries with over 170 banking locations in the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin market areas. Additionally, Wintrust operates various non-bank business units including commercial and life insurance premium financing, short-term accounts receivable financing, out-sourced administrative services, mortgage origination and purchase, wealth management services and qualified intermediary services for tax-deferred exchanges.

Why join us?

• An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 8 years) and Employee Recommended award by the 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

Why join this team?

• We stress the importance of teamwork and learning from each other so the team always exceeds business expectations

• We are a dynamic and growing team that plays a critical role at Wintrust

• We foster a culture of collaboration, empowerment, responsibility, and accomplishment

• We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun during the process

• This role offers the ability to make an impact and interface with the various aspects of Wintrust’s businesses lines

Position Summary

The Business Architect will play a pivotal role in collaborating with Wintrust’s

IT Architecture community to analyze and review the current IT and network structure within the company. Your contributions will enrich the corporate architecture repository through the development of UML diagrams, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagrams, and multi-layered architecture diagrams aligned with Enterprise Architecture standards and best practices.

This role requires collaboration, influencing, and interpersonal skills. You will work closely with Business Analysts, Senior Business Architects, and others to help shape and define business and technical requirements, providing guidance and expertise to help develop and mature standard deliverables and artifacts for solution planning. You will also engage with key stakeholders to support strategic planning, document capability roadmaps, and understand our maturity levels related to those capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Define and document solution architecture and roadmap, including identification of technical and functional components, data flow, and security requirements.

• Document UML, BPMN and Architecture diagrams in partnership with Enterprise Architecture team.

• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends and provide recommendations for adoption of new technologies and tools.

• Advocate and help drive adoption of “best practices” to ensure standardization of solution architecture outputs across the enterprise.

• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• 3+ years in an architecture role

• Knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), architecture frameworks, design patterns, and programming concepts

• Experience working in a structured project delivery methodology

• Knowledge of cloud computing, virtualization, storage, and networking technologies

• Experience in designing and implementing enterprise-scale systems and applications

• Experience in project management, including budget and timeline management

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with changing priorities

• Certifications in architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) are a plus

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

#LI-REMOTE

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 be Chicago’s Bank® and Wisconsin's Bank®, we need to reflect that diversity both in all the communities we serve, the people we employ, the organizations we work with, and our banking and lending practices. 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, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.