Senior Manager, Threat Management

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

Wintrust Financial is seeking a highly experienced Senior Manager of Threat Management, within its Cybersecurity organization. This leader will be responsible for oversight of Application Security, Vulnerability Management as distinct teams and third-party network/application penetration testing as an incumbent function of both programs.

This role will report directly to the VP of Security Engineering and Threat Management. This senior leadership role is responsible for the oversight and continuous advancement of maturity across three core functions within Threat Management: Secure Development, Security Testing and Scanning, and Remediation Consulting. The position focuses on embedding security into the software development lifecycle, strengthening vulnerability identification and prioritization processes, and delivering expert guidance on remediation to mitigate risks in alignment with financial services regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

The successful candidate will bring 7–10 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with demonstrated expertise in leading and managing application security, threat management, or vulnerability programs.

Experience implementing guardrails and controls for use of LLM’s within the software development lifecycle or AI in any automation capacity is considered a plus. Programmatic use or incorporation of AI/LLM’s is encouraged as part of future state program strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Oversight and advancement of Secure Development practices, including SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC, API security, Threat Modeling, and integration into the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Establish a 'Security Champions' program and lead tailored secure-code training initiatives to reduce recurring vulnerability patterns and foster a security-first culture among engineering teams

• Develop and enforce enterprise application security standards and secure coding guidelines to corresponding application development and DevOps teams

• Leadership of Security Testing and Scanning activities, encompassing Vulnerability Identification and Discovery, Risk Evaluation and Prioritization (using frameworks such as CVSSv3), Security Control Verification, Scan Operations, and Offensive Penetration Testing

• Direct the execution of continuous security scanning and periodic penetration testing programs, ensuring comprehensive visibility into the external attack surface and internal infrastructure

• Consulting services, including Patching guidance and governance, code refactoring, Configuration hardening, verification, and fix validation

• Develop a repeatable process for ingesting, normalizing and third-party penetration test findings and coordinating with IT leaders on remediation expectations and minimizing risk tolerance incurrence

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• 7-10 years of related experience

• Strategic program leadership experience with cross-functional collaboration with development, engineering, and business teams as well as th