As of June 30, 2026, First Busey Corporation (Nasdaq: BUSE) was an $18.19 billion financial holding company headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.
 
Busey Bank, a wholly-owned bank subsidiary of First Busey Corporation headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, had total assets of $18.15 billion as of June 30, 2026. Busey Bank currently has 80 banking centers, with 21 in central Illinois markets, 17 in suburban Chicago markets, 20 in the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area, four in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area, three in the Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area, three in southwest Florida, three in Oklahoma, three in Colorado, three in Arizona, one in Indianapolis, Indiana, one in Wichita, Kansas, and one in Clayton, New Mexico. More information about Busey Bank can be found at busey.com.
 
Through Busey’s Wealth Management division, the Company provides a full range of asset management, investment, brokerage, fiduciary, philanthropic advisory, tax preparation, and farm management services to individuals, businesses, and foundations. Assets under care totaled $16.51 billion as of June 30, 2026. More information about Busey’s Wealth Management services can be found at busey.com/wealth-management.
 
Busey Bank’s payment technology solutions specialize in the evolving financial technology needs of small and medium-sized businesses, highly regulated enterprise industries, and financial institutions. Busey provides comprehensive and innovative payment technology solutions, including online, mobile, and voice-recognition bill payments; money and data movement; merchant services; direct debit services; lockbox remittance processing for payments made by mail; and walk-in payments at retail agents. 

Busey is honored to be consistently recognized as an outstanding financial services organization with an engaged culture of integrity and commitment to community development.

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Position Summary

The Business Systems Manager leads business-critical systems and technology solutions that support operational efficiency, client experience, risk management, and scalable growth. This role partners with vendors, business lines, and enterprise stakeholders to align system capabilities with strategic priorities and ensure successful adoption across the organization. The Business Systems Manager is responsible for evaluating business needs, recommending practical technology solutions, developing requirements, supporting implementation, and leading a team responsible for reliable system delivery and service quality.

Duties & Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of key business systems, including enhancements, releases, upgrades, integrations, and production support. Support day-to-day business processing needs for internal partners and external clients while advancing the company’s strategic initiatives. Oversee incident, problem, and change management processes, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention of recurring issues. Maintain clear metrics, dashboards, and reporting to monitor system uptime, defect trends, backlog, release readiness, and service quality. Approve and oversee procedures for system management activities, fostering consistency, adoption of best practices, and continuous improvement. Recommend items for inclusion in the enterprise technology annual operating budget, including in-production systems. Monitor and track departmental expenditures within approved budget. Analyze, design, and implement process improvements across various teams across the enterprise. Partner with business leaders to plan implementation, training, adoption, and ongoing support for enterprise systems. Coordinate integrations across internal and external platforms, data flows, APIs, vendor systems, and enterprise services. Evaluate emerging business needs and recommend scalable solutions that support future growth, operational resiliency, and client experience. Evaluate return on investment and guide activities toward efficient, cost-effective solutions that deliver measurable business value. Plan and oversee effective testing processes to ensure deliverables meet quality, control, and implementation standards. Build strong partnerships with functional leaders by understanding business objectives and delivering systems and applications that create value across the organization. Manage team capacity, resource planning, skills development, performance feedback, and prioritization of work. Improve business unit capabilities through innovative technologies and processes. Recruit, develop, and retain skilled talent to execute the technology strategy and support corporate initiatives. Build a culture of accountability, continuous learning, operational excellence, and practical problem-solving. Ensure products and software platforms comply with federal regulations, internal controls, and data security standards. 

Education & Experience

Knowledge

Executive communication, leadership, influencing, and presentation skillsStrong reporting and documentation skillsStrong understanding of application lifecycle management, technology operations, and system governanceStrategic, curious, and a creative thinker4+ years of experience managing and leading technology teamsExceptional service orientation and client focusDemonstrated experience in the strategic use of technology to innovate business deliveryExperience supporting integration related to mergers and acquisitions

Ability

Take independent action within established options and develops new procedures and approaches to problems when necessaryAnalyze assignments where application of advanced or technical concepts is required; think outside of the box to develop solutions for complex problemsMaintain visual attention and mental concentration for extended periods of timePerform duties and make decisions under frequent time pressures and within budgetWork with technical and non-technical business owners to achieve results in alignment with strategic prioritiesCollaborate with high energy and focus, driving results across multiple projects

Education

Requires Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Finance, or related area or equivalent experience. Requires 4 - 6 years of senior technology operations or senior infrastructure support experience. Requires 4 years of experience with core banking solutions, such as Jack Henry or FIS. Preferred 3+ years of experience with core banking, integration, or digital solutions such as jXchange, 4|sight, Q2 Digital Banking, Synergy, Teller Capture, Centrix, Terafina, or Verafin. Requires experience with ServiceNow or similar solutions. Technical proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite, including advanced Excel and Power BI skills, as well as AI and automation tools. 

Compensation And Benefits

Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance.

(Base Pay Range: $93,000-$132,000/year)

Busey provides a competitive Total Rewards package in return for your time, talents, efforts and ultimately, results. Your personal and professional well-being—now and in the years to come—are important to us. Busey’s Total Rewards include a competitive benefits package offering 401(k) match, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance and long-term disability, supplemental voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness incentives and an employee assistance program. In addition, eligible associates may take advantage of pre-tax health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Visit Busey Total Rewards for more information.

Equal Opportunity 

Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey’s commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey’s Equal Opportunity Employment.

Unsolicited Resumes

Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails.