Western Alliance Bank

Technical Project Manager

• assist in the planning, execution, and reporting for various audits
• evaluate processes and controls for adherence to bank policies
• assist in completing root cause analysis for identified issues
• lead a team of Auditor(s) and Senior Auditor(s)
• work with audit leaders across the department
• meet regularly with department heads and business leaders to discuss audits
• support the Audit Director and Associate Audit Director with audits across the organization
• ensure compliance with audit methodology
• prepare audit planning documentation and risk & control matrix
• provide guidance and coaching to supporting staff throughout assigned audits
• draft clear and concise audit issues, ensuring root cause analysis is completed
• monitor progress made by management toward completing action plans

Audit Project Manager

Manager

• Develop and maintain analytical frameworks and key assumptions across Treasury functions, including ALM, FTP, Capital, and Liquidity
• Lead the testing and implementation of QRM modeling enhancements
• Provide oversight of Treasury data analytics
• Partner closely with Information Technology to ensure stable, well governed business as usual (BAU) model operations
• Work closely with Data Governance groups to analyze and maintain complex data mappings between the General Ledger, data warehouse, and Treasury systems to ensure data accuracy and consistency
• Manage Data Management Repository to support all the model input data requirements
• Play an integral, hands-on role in building and testing QRM model enhancements, assumption updates, and estimate related impacts on key metrics such as EVE, NII and FTP
• Provide oversight and coordination of changes across multiple Treasury teams (IRR, Forecast, FTP) to ensure alignment, effective collaboration, and timely implementation in ALM system
• Operate effectively in a fast‑paced BAU environment by troubleshooting data issues, setup or modelling related changes within QRM
• Collaborate with second line of defense teams including Model Risk Management to support oversight and governance
• Maintain vendor relationships with QRM and supporting Treasury systems, and coordinate ongoing system maintenance, model updates and issue resolution

Treasury Manager

Financial Planning and Analysis

• report directly to a Senior Financial Reporting Manager
• oversee the Company’s Regulatory Reporting function
• perform both recurring and ad hoc duties
• ensure compliance with SOX, policies and procedures, as well as applicable banking regulations
• lead the implementation of new regulatory reporting software
• assist with Large Financial Institution Readiness (LFI)
• prepare and review the daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports filed with the Federal Banking Agencies
• remain current on recent rules, interpretations, and industry practices
• assess the impact of these changes on the Company
• support growth initiatives and ensuring that business initiatives are supported
• actively develop relationships across functional areas for cross-departmental collaboration
• assist with external financial audits, regulatory examinations, and similar activities
• perform certain month-end close responsibilities
• provide ad hoc reports customized to the needs of the Chief Accounting Officer or other members of executive management

Financial Reporting Manager

Full-stack Engineer

• provide expertise in a suite of technical tools and products in a given domain to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant, and reliable
• identify development and support needs, as well as take on design responsibilities supporting project tasks
• collaborate with the maintenance and management of UPS infrastructure
• manage telecommunications, routing and switching infrastructure
• collaborate, analyze and manage datacenter infrastructure
• produce various diagrams and documentation for the network organization
• inspect, evaluate and make recommendations for telecom contracts
• facilitate dialogue and activities to ensure team collaboration, including teams outside of your domain
• develop effective presentations and narratives for your teams
• lead the strategic planning of projects as it relates to technical solution design
• 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
• develop and maintain technical documentation, including system configurations and procedures while also ensuring compliance with IT policies, procedures, and industry standards
• develop desktop procedures when needed that others follow
• provide senior-level leadership for telecommunications and ISP services including WAN, internet, and carrier Ethernet
• serve as technical authority for carrier design, provisioning, and redundancy strategies
• support site builds, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning activities
• act as escalation point for complex telecom incidents and root cause analysis
• maintain accurate circuit and carrier documentation
• support telecom and ISP contract negotiations, renewals, and RFPs
• interpret SLAs, service credits, escalation and termination clauses
• partner with Legal, Procurement, Finance, and Vendor Management
• assist with billing disputes and cost optimization efforts
• ensure compliance with enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) requirements
• participate in risk and control self-assessments and issue remediation
• support audits with documentation and evidence
• identify and escalate technology and vendor risks
• mentor Engineers and Analysts
• facilitate cross-domain collaboration
• deliver executive-level presentations and technical narratives

Staff Engineer – II

Data Engineer

• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert in the Enterprise Data & Analytics domain.
• Ensure that data engineering solutions are safe, secure, compliant, and reliable.
• Design, build, and implement critical components of the enterprise data platform.
• Identify development and support requirements and take ownership of large, complex design initiatives.
• Design, develop and deploy data engineering solutions with Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, and Azure DevOps.
• Develop data engineering solution designs for execution by data engineering teams.
• Develop ETL and data pipeline capabilities across the organization.
• Implement Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for all data solutions.
• Apply Test Driven Development methodology to data solutions.
• Lead the implementation of outcomes from Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture.
• Lead the migration of multidimensional cubes to tabular models.
• Utilize Power BI to design, deploy, and visualize tabular cubes.
• Perform data exploration and data profiling with tools like Excel and Informatica.
• Actively participate in data architecture decisions.
• Provide technical mentorship to team members and other data professionals.
• Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to understand business requirements.
• Implement built-in quality and compliance-by-design in all data solutions.
• Review Azure Data Factory pipelines and provide feedback to ensure quality standards.

Principal Engineer I – Lead Data Engineer

• Serve in a mid-level, hands-on engineering role with a primary focus on Active Directory technologies
• Collaborate with IAM team responsible for managing, maintaining, and supporting the organization’s on premises and hybrid Active Directory infrastructure
• Identify development and operational support needs
• Contribute to Active Directory–centric design decisions
• Take ownership of assigned project and enhancement tasks
• Facilitate technical discussions and cross team collaboration
• Provide high-level engineering and functional support for Active Directory and Windows Server services
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Active Directory and PKI infrastructure
• Design, redesign, and maintain Active Directory forests, domains, trusts, and OU structures
• Architect and enforce Group Policy (GPO) strategy
• Design and manage permissions, delegation models, and RBAC aligned with least privileged principles
• Implement and maintain Active Directory security hardening
• Design and manage tiered administration models (Tier 0 / privileged access separation)
• Support and integrate PKI, Kerberos, and authentication controls across the environment
• Independently execute large-scale Active Directory initiatives
• Act as L3 escalation for Active Directory–related incidents
• Develop, document, and maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, and workflows for L2 operational teams
• Configure and troubleshoot Windows desktop environments in support of VDI / Azure Virtual Desktop deployments
• Provide on-call support for critical identity and directory services incidents
• Ensure compliance with IT policies, procedures, and industry standards

Staff Engineer II – Active Directory

• As the Principal Data Engineer, you are accountable to design, build, and implement critical components of the enterprise data platform in accordance with the strategic data and analytics needs of Western Alliance Bank Regulatory Reporting Program.
• This challenging role requires the best of your data management, cloud data engineering and technology knowledge to develop a cross-business unit data tier that is leveraged to implement and enhance the Bank’s regulatory reporting capabilities, including Large Financial Institution requirements.
• The Principal Data Engineer is a pioneer in our modern data platform working directly with data analysts, data engineers, enterprise architects, and business stakeholders.
• Embedded in the Enterprise Data & Analytics function, you influence the culture of data integration practices and are essential to mentoring other data professionals.
• Implement data engineering solutions that satisfy the full data lifecycle including efficient technical hygiene and the use of Azure DevOps for the implementation of the Western Alliance Bank Regulatory Reporting and LFI strategy and roadmap.
• Develop ETL and data pipeline capabilities considering how data is created, transformed, stored, archived, analyzed, and shared across Western Alliance Bank and our partner systems.
• Expert-level PySpark development experience, including: Writing dynamic, parameterized, and reusable PySpark code, Building shared frameworks, helper functions, and companion notebook structures, Performance tuning and optimization of Spark workloads.
• Implement Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for all data solutions in adherence to Western Alliance Bank technical standards.
• Apply Test Driven Development methodology to all data solutions designed, built, and implemented.
• Lead the implementation of outcomes, recommendations, and designs from Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture.
• Perform data exploration and data profiling with tools such as SSAS.
• Actively participate in making data architecture decisions.
• Provide technical mentorship to team members and other data professionals.
• Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to gain a working understanding of business requirements and operational processes.
• Implement built-in quality and compliance- by-design in all data solutions.
• Implement methods to include unstructured data and big data.

Principal Engineer I – Senior Data Engineer

IT Support

• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in multiple functional areas/domains
• Manage multiple large teams to deliver complex projects in designated domains or functional areas
• Collaborate with internal business partners to proactively address ongoing customer needs
• Foster a collaborative environment with focus on continuous improvement and delivery of working software
• Participate in strategic and tactical planning for the delivery of products and services
• Evaluate technology and set standards
• Recommend improvements to established business processes while delivering high value in execution
• Create and deliver comprehensive project plans as well as remove any impediments
• Track overall project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of business short-term and long-term goals
• Lead and manage multiple large, cross-functional engineering teams responsible for Enterprise Entitlements, MuleSoft Anypoint API development, Azure API Management
• Create and implement safety procedures and data recovery plans
• Develop user manuals, as well as policies, procedures, and safety protocols for presentation to larger IT and the enterprise
• Partner with IT Leadership to build a strategic plan to drive employee development, retention, resource allocation, talent management, performance management
• Establish, enforce, and continuously improve API governance frameworks aligned with FFIEC, COBIT, NIST, SOX, and enterprise risk management expectations
• Work with IT Leadership in the preparation and management of the annual budget, business cases, execution plans, and operating plans for their team
• Ensure adequate risk management and cyber security processes and controls are established and maintained
• Ensure platform availability, resiliency, and recoverability in alignment with enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery standards

IT Manager IV – API and Entitlements Delivery

Backend Engineer

• Provide expert-level knowledge as the established authority in your domain
• Lead large and complex design efforts supporting critical projects and solutions
• Engage with project and business sponsors defining requirements and objectives of targeted solutions
• Facilitate dialogue and large team activities, ensuring collaboration
• Develop effective presentations and narratives for business stakeholders and IT audiences
• Architect, design, and implement MuleSoft APIs for high-performance, scalable, and secure payment processing
• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted API design and development using GenAI tools (e.g., MuleSoft AI, GitHub Copilot, internal LLMs)
• Optimize vCore utilization for cost efficiency, resource allocation, and high availability
• Develop resilient and fault-tolerant API architectures, ensuring zero-downtime deployments and disaster recovery strategies
• Lead full API lifecycle management, from development and security hardening to deployment and maintenance
• Implement API security best practices, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, certificate-based authentication, and encryption standards for financial transactions
• Ensure adherence to FDX (Financial Data Exchange) standards for secure financial data interoperability
• Build event-driven architectures utilizing Kafka for high-throughput and low-latency transaction processing
• Implement NoSQL database integration (MongoDB, Azure CosmosDB) for flexible and scalable data storage solutions
• Develop observability frameworks with ELK to monitor API performance, security, and anomalies
• Optimize MuleSoft worker configurations, clustering, and autoscaling strategies for CloudHub deployments
• Enforce security policies and compliance controls specific to MuleSoft API gateways
• Design and develop APIs using Azure API Management (APIM) to enforce consistent security, rate limiting, versioning, and lifecycle governance while enabling scalable, reusable, and well‑managed API consumption across platforms

Principal Engineer II – MuleSoft API Developer

Business Analyst

• Lead activities to review current processes and metrics that support operational effectiveness
• Identify constraints or opportunities that may inhibit or accelerate the business and/or technology strategy
• Develop artifacts that accurately and completely describe current state processes, practices, and/or metrics
• Capture opportunities to simplify our process while also improving KRIs/KPIs or operational metrics
• Facilitate discussions with IT, Product, and Business subject matter experts to understand the problem statement and/or opportunity
• Lead projects with the expectation that all assigned analysis work within a specific domain is completed with minimal supervision
• Communicate effectively with managers and colleagues, coordinate discussions with subject matter experts to gather requirements
• Capture and upkeep KRIs, KPIs, or Operational Metrics, while developing lists of critical documentation, artifacts supporting project activities

Staff IT Analyst I – ITSM/IT Change Management

• engineer, operationalize, and continuously mature a scalable, risk-based Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM) program across hybrid environments
• collaborate with internal business partners and IT Tower Leads to proactively address ongoing vulnerability and configuration hardening issues to ensure rapid resolution
• foster a collaborative environment with focus on continuous mitigation and mitigation of cyber vulnerabilities
• accountable to proactively recommend improvements to established processes while continuing to deliver high value in execution
• create and deliver comprehensive project plans as well as remove any impediments, track overall project performance
• serve as a hands-on technical leader responsible for building, integrating, and automating vulnerability discovery, prioritization, remediation workflows, and security guardrails
• partner closely with Cyber Defense, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Application, and Platform teams to reduce enterprise risk through measurable, engineering-led outcomes
• assist in the strategic direction and execution of the TVM program
• review and enforce CIS security baseline compliance across enterprise assets
• integrate automated scanning and security controls into DevSecOps pipelines
• work cross-functionally with Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, and IT to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities based on business risk, exploitability, and regulatory requirements
• support the use and optimization of enterprise vulnerability scanning and compliance tools
• monitor emerging threats, zero-day vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations, and lead remediation and communication efforts accordingly
• produce reporting and metrics that provide visibility into vulnerability trends, patch compliance, and CIS benchmark adherence for technical and executive audiences
• contribute to cloud security governance, including the design and enforcement of security guardrails
• ensure alignment with regulatory standards (e.g., FFIEC, GLBA, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001)
• support a team of security analysts and engineers focused on vulnerability detection, analysis, and risk mitigation

Staff Engineer II, Cyber – Threat and Vulnerability Management

Vice President

• analyzing, structuring, underwriting, and coordinating the closing of major and complex loans in compliance with the Bank's lending policies and procedures
• work with the Vice President, Commercial Banker to manage loans to ensure the credit risks are responsibly monitored and identified
• assist in attaining established Bank, region, and branch goals through active participation in underwriting and closing desirable credits with the Vice President, Commercial Banker
• assuring compliance with all Bank policies and procedures, as well as all applicable state and federal banking regulations
• interface with clients in-person, over the phone and email in order to assess their credit needs and determine the best structure and items needed for analysis
• gather and analyze necessary information to present along with the Relationship Manager, a financing request to senior management or Loan Committee for approval
• coordinate processing of approved loans; ensure loans are processed according to agreement, customer needs and conform to Bank lending policies; obtain sufficient information and/or documentation from customers; assist in solving problems relative to processing and servicing of loans within the Relationship Managers portfolio
• reinforce superior customer service through your own example along with appropriate follow-through with involved customers and employees
• handle various other underwriting, portfolio management and upkeep tasks and responsibilities related to new loan requests and/or the existing Relationship Managers portfolio

Assistant Vice President – Portfolio Management

• Spread, manage and maintain financial background information on present and prospective customers
• Develop credit studies for Loan Officers, Chief Credit Officer and other Executive Management
• Manage spread assignments, conduct financial analyses, and maintain related records and files
• Prepare a variety of credit department reports
• Analyze credit and collateral information to determine risk in lending money
• Collect, organize, analyze company financials to ensure Bank compliance
• Work directly with clients to resolve compliance issues and operational inquiries
• Review client financials and perform sensitivity analysis to evaluate credit risk
• Prepare in-depth reports with plans of action based on research
• Collaborate cross-functionally to execute treasury management products and legal documents
• Produce loan packages for new and restructured loans
• Facilitate reporting and requests on behalf of the Bank with third parties
• Monitor loan disbursements to ensure compliance

Senior Credit Analyst, Sponsor Finance

• identifying a target market for new business
• developing and establishing a book of new business
• negotiating, underwriting, and coordinating the closing of loans
• assisting clients with deposit related products and services
• compiling and analyzing market research data
• engaging in business development activities
• collaborating closely with treasury partners
• maintaining customer database including calls and results on new business relationships
• coordinating processing of approved loans

Vice President – Innovation Banking

Product Specialist

• Support Western Alliance Bank’s Product Management Team in creating best-in-class commercial card products.
• Participate in the growth, development and expansion of our commercial card product set.
• Work collaboratively across Treasury Management Sales, Product Management, Card Implementation/ Operations, Marketing, Line of Business leaders, industry partners and vendors.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Analysts, Sales, IT, Risk, Legal, and Executive Team.
• Provide training, pricing, and product benefits to internal partners.
• Create and manage card product process flows.
• Develop and maintain detailed technical product knowledge.
• Research market opportunities for new product enhancements.
• Evaluate new potential vendor solutions.
• Identify process improvements and automation opportunities for the commercial card product offering.