Principal Software Engineer at Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont, Illinois

Job Description:

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.

Location:                  

Rosemont, IL- but remote work anywhere in the U.S. will be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for technical development, implementation, administration and support of Salesforce CRM, using leading edge technologies. Participate in the development and deployment new features to support business initiatives, playing a leading role in the design of new/improved interfaces to Salesforce.




• Develops new applications and functionality including modifying existing website, micro-sites, and application sites for Salesforce. Develop and document functional specifications.




• Conducts code reviews, and Pair-Programming Sessions.




• Provide application design expertise for application development, database design and maintenance, software architecture, software development lifecycle management and application monitoring for the relevant platform(s). Help architect efficient and scalable software solutions for business application platforms.




• Responsible for the software release management of team projects including packaging for deployment and working with Configuration Management for the release of, and integration of released applications into open web projects.




• Provide production support for Salesforce CRM including afterhours support when necessary.




• Participate in the full SDLC (Agile), including requirement analysis, design and implementation, estimations and other aspects of iterative development.




• Develop production application support plans, schedules, and assignments as required. Estimate the level of effort related to technical design, coding, and unit testing.




• Report status to development management and project/systems management.




• Develop specification documents outlining technical requirements with associated solutions.




• Provide technical support for maintenance of existing applications.




• Responsible for project development efforts pertaining to supplier partnership agreements




• Ability to clearly write technical specifications.




• Able to effectively communicate across teams and roles.




• Coach and mentor a team of 5 Software Developers to fulfill requested enhancements.




• Manage development team and pipelines.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field of study and 5 years of relevant experience.  As an equivalent alternative, the employer will also accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field of study plus 3 years of relevant experience.

The position also requires:

3 years of experience with Salesforce CRM. 3 years of experience with Lightning, and Lightning Web Components. 3 years of experience with APEX, Agile, Gearset, Git, Visual Studio Code. 3 years of experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript. 3 years of experience with Object-oriented methodologies and frameworks and Web Service technologies. 3 years of experience with Software development lifecycle methodologies and discipline. 3 years of experience with Salesforce problem-solving skills using core Salesforce development concepts such as breakpoints, stack trace, watchpoint, unit tests, browser devtools, and network trace.

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.