wintrust

Cybersecurity Senior Architect

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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 10 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
  • Family-friendly work hours
  • With 175+ community bank locations, we offer opportunities to grow and develop in your career
  • Promote from within culture

Why join this team?

  • We have a culture that encourages an entrepreneurial spirit
  • We offer multiple opportunities for development and upward mobility

Job Description Summary

Cybersecurity Cloud Architect at Wintrust is a technical leadership role to develop strategic and technical solutions to drive maturity of Wintrust’s Cloud environments.

As a Cybersecurity Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for reviewing, validating and guiding implementation of cloud native or 3rd party security controls across all business units at Wintrust. You will work with business leaders, infrastructure and development organizations, and risk and governance to infuse information security controls into business and technology processes. In addition, you will lead development of threat modeling for SaaS and PaaS based products and services to identify risk and participate in architectural reviews of products in internal development and 3rd party providers.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead cloud-centric Information Security strategy to meet Wintrust strategic growth goals
  • Research and lead design of cloud-based security solutions with the Wintrust product and services offerings across all business units, drive cloud security and support a security strategy tailored to enterprise needs
  • Advise Wintrust business units on how to implement identity and access for SaaS and PaaS Wintrust users and 3rd party partners, including registration, authentication, authorization, administration, audit, and reporting.
  • Guide integration of modern authentication and authorization security controls into Wintrust IaaS and PaaS platforms, 3rd party SaaS, and integrated multi-vendor environments.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on SaaS, PaaS and IaaS technologies and security with responsibilities to ensure enablement of robust security controls
  • Lead development of cloud security assessment program to identify cloud-based vulnerabilities and threat; develop mitigation plans to address identified security gaps. Adapt hands-on approach with the Wintrust products and services implementation to define and deliver information security requirements and architectural solutions

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

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

Compensation

The estimated salary range for this role is $117,000 - $158,000, along with eligibility to earn an annual bonus. Actual salaries may vary based on several factors, such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills and experience.

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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 build a company that reflects the communities we serve, we believe that fostering a unique and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to succeed will support our ongoing success. 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, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.