SVP, Director Wealth Business Technology Officer

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.” Why join us? An 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) 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 Position Overview Wintrust is seeking a Senior Vice President, Business Technology Officer to lead the technology vision, strategy, and execution for our Wealth Management business line which consists of four companies that work in concert with each other.  Collectively, Wintrust Investments, Wintrust Private Trust, Great Lakes Advisors and Chicago Deferred Exchange Company provide comprehensive brokerage and insurance, trust and estate, and portfolio management solutions.  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. What You’ll Do Lead the technology vision, strategy, and execution for your assigned business units and serve as the primarily 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 At 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, coast-effective solutions, and resolve issues in a timely and direct fashion 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 Partners with members of the IT Leadership team to secure, allocate, and deploy and manage IT resources to support individual business unit initiatives. Manage vendor, contractor and employee capacity and resource conflicts through prioritization and alignment of initiatives to overall Wintrust enterprise and business unit goals. 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). 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