Wintrust Financial
Principal Data Architect
Rosemont, IL · Principal
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About the role
- 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
Responsibilities
- The Principal Data Architect is a key position within the Data Management team, responsible for the design, development, test, and implementation of best-in-class Data Integration solutions using MuleSoft, Azure, Java, Automation tools like Ansible, Terraform etc for the organization.
- Design, develop and maintain data solutions using best practices.
- Define and implement policies, procedures, and standards for data quality, consistency, security, and compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
- Lead the creation of conceptual, logical, and physical data models to illustrate how data elements relate to each other and guide database design.
- Continuously monitor and optimize existing data infrastructure for performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
- Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the building, testing, and deployment of data solutions. This includes automating infrastructure provisioning using
- Building data ingestion and integration pipelines using tools like Apache Kafka or ETL technologies.
- Design and build API security standards using Noname/Akamai.
- Analyze the requirements and prepare technical specifications and detail level design documents.
- Drive the Design, Development & Deployment of data flows.
Requirements
- 7 years of experience with MuleSoft platform architecture and development.
- 6 years of experience with IBM Integration Bus development and MQ Development.
- 6 years of experience with Java development, Kafka and ETL.
- 6 years of experience with Site Reliability Engineering and Infra as a code.
- 6 years of experience with CheckMarx, Noname and API Security.
- 5 years of experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift and Infra as a service.
- 5 years of experience with Okta OR PING.
- 5 years of experience with API gateway.
- 3 years of experience with Azure CICD, Hashicorp OR Delinea Secrets.
Nice to have
- 3 or 4 year Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Computer Information Systems or a related field of study plus 7 years of experience in a related occupation.
Compensation
- The salary for this role is $202,779.00, along with eligibility to earn an annual bonus.
Benefits
- Develop a long-term, reliable vision and roadmap for how data will be collected, stored, managed, and utilized across the entire organization to achieve business objectives.
Company info
- Our people are the heart of our business and we are proud to rank consistently as a top place to work.
- Pursues self-development and effective relationships with others by sharing resources, information, and knowledge with coworkers and customers. Seeks opportunities to deliver continuous process improvement.
Equal opportunity
- Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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