Senior Manager, Engineering Identity and Access Managment

Location: Rosemont, IL

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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

Reporting to the SVP, Identity Access Management Director, the Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineering Manager leads the development, implementation, and operations of enterprise IAM capabilities within a highly regulated financial services environment. This role is responsible for ensuring secure, compliant and resilient identity services that protect data, financial systems, and critical infrastructure.

The IAM Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers, partner closely with information security, architecture, risk management, audit, and technology teams, and ensure IAM controls align with regulatory requirements and internal risk management standards.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of IAM engineers in a highly regulated environment

• Design, implement, and maintain IAM solutions across on-premises and cloud environments

• Own identity lifecycle management for employees, contractors, vendors, service accounts, and applications while also leading implementation of and managing authentication, authorization, and federation services (SSO, MFA, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML) for workforce members and Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM)

• Enforce least privilege access and segregation of duties (SOD) controls

• Support regulatory and internal audits, partner with Risk and Compliance teams to meet financial industry regulations and standards

• Work closely with application owners, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, and security team to integrate IAM controls

• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) and advisor to senior leadership on identity-related risk and controls

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in IAM, cybersecurity, or information security in the financial services industry with 3 years of leading technical engineering teams

• Strong technical leadership and decision making skills

• Strong understanding of IAM concepts: authentication, authorization, federation, RBAC/ABAC, MFA, PAM

• Hands-on experience with enterprise IAM platforms (e.g., Okta, Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD, Delinea, SailPoint)

• Experience integrating IAM with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

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 $170,000.00 - $200,000.00, 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.