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Staff Engineer
Western Alliance BankIT Staff Engineer I managing and supporting IT infrastructure and applications at Western Alliance Bank. Collaborating with various teams to implement cloud-first design patterns and operational best practices.
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAzureCloudInformaticaPySparkPythonSQLTerraformVault
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- work in a mid-level role with proficiency in one or more key products
- responsible for managing and supporting the organization's IT infrastructure or applications
- identify development and support needs as well as taking on design responsibilities supporting project tasks
- facilitate dialogue and activities, while also ensuring team collaboration
- responsible for enabling scalable, secure, and governed data solutions across the organization
- focus on platform reliability, performance, automation, and enablement of data engineering teams, rather than application-specific development
- collaborate with architects, data engineers, governance teams, and business stakeholders to implement cloud-first platform design patterns, automation frameworks, and operational best practices
- ensure strong alignment with enterprise standards
- take assignments that can be worked on individually without supervision and manage work effort from concept to completion
- design and implement engineering principles aimed at reliability practices and sound recovery procedures
- design transaction specific application performance monitoring metrics that can be captured and passed to business partners
- layout reference architecture and visual diagrams that capture work
- ensure compliance with IT policies, procedures, and industry standards, including reviewing and refining IT control enhancements
- build, configure, and manage enterprise data platform services across Azure and Microsoft Fabric environments
- own platform availability, reliability, and performance, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- implement backup, recovery, and failover strategies to ensure business continuity
- manage capacity planning, cost optimization, and workload isolation strategies
- implement and manage access controls, RBAC, AD groups, and secure connectivity (Private Link, VNet, Gateways)
- ensure platform compliance with enterprise governance, regulatory standards, and audit requirements
- define and implement platform-level monitoring, telemetry, and observability frameworks
- create and maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, and operational documentation
- support production operations through incident triage, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
Requirements
What you’ll need- 5+ years of related experience in IT App Support, IT Development, IT Networking, or similar field
- Bachelor's degree in related field required
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking preferred
- Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices
- Advanced proven experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Additional experience with pipeline development and leveraging Azure DevOps while working on multiple projects simultaneously
- Intermediate to advanced ability to see the big picture and align projects with organizational goals
- Capable of leading and motivating cross-functional teams
- Expertise in resolving conflicts and addressing challenges as well as skilled at identifying and mitigating risks at the project level
- Proficient in governance patterns tied to intake, technical reviews and architectural compliance
- Advanced speaking and writing communication skills
- May require up to 25% travel
- Expertise in Microsoft Azure & Microsoft Fabric, including Fabric Lakehouse, Warehouse, Workspaces, Capacity management, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Key Vault, Azure Monitor
- Experience with Platform provisioning & automation (ARM, Terraform, YAML pipelines), CI/CD using Azure DevOps, Monitoring & observability frameworks, Security & access management (RBAC, Managed Identity, Service Principals)
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, and/or PySpark
- Working knowledge of data engineering frameworks and data lifecycle concepts, Fabric capacities, workspace configurations, and environment isolation
- Data security, compliance, and governance frameworks
- Familiarity with data cataloging, lineage, and quality tools (e.g., Informatica, Purview)
Benefits
Comp & perks- competitive salaries
- ownership stake in the company
- medical and dental insurance
- time off
- a great 401k matching program
- tuition assistance program
- an employee volunteer program
- a wellness program
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythonPySparkAzure Data FactorySynapse AnalyticsAzure SQLAzure Data Lake StorageTerraformCI/CDData Engineering Frameworks
Soft Skills
Advanced Communication SkillsConflict ResolutionRisk MitigationTeam MotivationProject Management