Wintrust is a financial holding company with approximately $62 billion in assets whose common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. Guided by its "Different Approach, Better Results" philosophy, Wintrust offers the sophisticated resources of a large bank while providing a community banking experience to each customer. Wintrust operates more than 200 retail banking locations through 16 community bank subsidiaries in the greater Chicago, southern Wisconsin, west Michigan, northwest Indiana, and southwest Florida market areas. In addition, Wintrust operates various non-bank business units, providing residential mortgage origination, wealth management, commercial and life insurance premium financing, short-term accounts receivable financing/outsourced administrative services to the temporary staffing services industry, and qualified intermediary services for tax-deferred exchanges. Our unique business model is a competitive strength and value driver, powered by our talented colleagues who put our customers first and achieve better results for our clients.
Why join us?
An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 11 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
The Senior Data Architect is a key position within the Data Management team. The primary responsibility of this role will be to design, implement and manage complex data streaming architectures using Apache Kafka and Confluent technologies.
What You'll Do
Lead the solution design and implementation of robust data-led integration architectures using Confluent Kafka, NoSQL databases, and SQL Server Data Warehouse ensuring scalability, performance, and strong security.
Design and implement data streaming pipelines using Kafka and its ecosystem.
Architecting and designing for a ground-up build of a Confluent Kafka platform for the enterprise.
Diagnose and resolve issues related to Kafka Implementations and assist in estimation and scoping of all Kafka implementations.
Ensure data quality and consistency across streaming data pipelines.
Implement security best practices for Kafka, including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
Lead onshore/offshore team members.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree with 7+ years' experience or master's degree with 5+ years' experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or other quantitative field.
5+ years of experience as a data engineer, with a focus on Kafka and streaming technologies and leading complex Kafka implementation projects with minimum 2+ hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka Platform.
At least 3 years of architectural experience with Kafka, having successfully led streaming solutions for multiple enterprise initiatives including offset management, partition strategy, and DR requirements
Expertise in designing and developing real-time stream processing applications using Kafka Streams/kSQL. Strong experience in designing, building, and configuring Kafka event clients, brokers, topics, producers, consumers.
Strong experience with using Kafka Connect to build connectors that facilitate data movement between Kafka and other systems. Experience with designing and creating end-to-end streaming data pipelines, where data is ingested, processed, and stored in real-time, ensuring data consistency and latency requirements.
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 $98,000 - $132,000, 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.
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.
