Job Description

Job Title:

Principal Engineer II

Location:

Block 23

What you'll do:

As a Principal Engineer II, you’ll be responsible for enabling scalable, secure, and governed data solutions across the organization. This role focuses on platform reliability, performance, automation, and enablement of data engineering teams, rather than application-specific development.
You will collaborate with architects, data engineers, governance teams, and business stakeholders to implement cloud-first platform design patterns, automation frameworks, and operational best practices, while ensuring strong alignment with enterprise standards.

As Principal Engineer II, you'll provide your expert-level knowledge as the established authority in your domain as well as extensive knowledge across multiple domains to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant and reliable. You'll lead large and complex design efforts supporting critical projects and solutions while engaging with project and business sponsors defining requirements and objectives of targeted solutions. As a Principal Engineer II, you'll also engage in the facilitation of dialogue and large team activities, while ensuring collaboration to include teams outside of your domain. You'll develop effective presentations and narratives for business stakeholders and IT audiences.

• Design transaction specific application performance monitoring metrics that can be captured and passed to business partners. In Addition, will layout reference architecture and visual diagrams that capture work.
• Build, configure, and manage enterprise data platform services across Azure, Informatica 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.
• Build the solution design of efforts that can be handed off to lower-level engineers for execution assuring reuse of platforms where possible.
• Review technical plans developed by lower-level engineers and analysts to assure quality designs which can support the volumetrics of our business partners objectives.
• Build comprehensive measurement dashboards that give performance insight into key applications of the bank which can feed operational results of our business partners while enforcing IT standards, and may modify or build procedures that support areas of operations across IT.
• Work independently or partner with architecture team counterparts to lay out the final documentation required for proper, ongoing reference of the given solution to include physical and logical layouts with cross reference to use case models.

What you'll need:

• 10+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related IT degree; Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
• 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 along with data governance tools MS Purview and Informatica (IDMC).
• Expertise in data cataloging, lineage, and quality tools Informatica and MS Purview.
• 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).
• Working knowledge of data engineering frameworks and data lifecycle concepts, Fabric capacities, workspace configurations, and environment isolation, Data security, compliance, and governance frameworks.
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
• Advanced to expert knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Advanced to expert experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously with an established expertise in one or more key domains of the bank (Deposits, Loans, Operations or Reporting) with the ability to walk-through top-level process design. Capable of working with regulatory partners like the CFPB, OCC and FRB through audits and collaboration efforts as situations arise.
• Advanced to expert familiarity with the capability model across IT and the applications and infrastructures available for engagement in solutioning across the bank to develop results that leverage existing capabilities in addition to implementing new solutions when required. Experience in the design, enhancement and compliance to all governance frameworks across the IT organization to ensure proper compliance to published procedures and standards.
• Expert speaking and writing communication skills.
• May require up to 25% travel.

Benefits you’ll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want — like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands — Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank — that remain part of the company’s heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

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