Senior AI Platform Engineer - Copilot & Agentic SDLC

Western Alliance Bancorporation; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Alliance Bancorporation seeks a Principal Engineer I - AI Engineering to lead enterprise AI capabilities, GitHub Copilot implementation, and agentic software engineering. You will define the technical vision, govern architecture, and collaborate with DevOps, Security, and governance teams to accelerate secure software delivery.

You will mentor engineers, set standards, evaluate new Copilot features, implement guardrails, and maintain runbooks and reference architectures to ensure

Qualifications

• Expert in GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted software engineering.
• Experience designing enterprise developer platforms.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, CI/CD, and secure software delivery.
• Ability to influence engineering standards across teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as enterprise technical owner for GitHub Copilot and AI engineering.
• Define strategy, architecture, standards, and operating model.
• Engineer and evolve Copilot capabilities and policies.
• Evaluate new capabilities for enterprise readiness and governance.
• Design guardrails for AI-assisted engineering.
• Establish lifecycle management for Copilot configurations.
• Mentor engineers and lead cross-functional collaboration.
• Communicate roadmap and health to leadership.
• Maintain architecture docs and runbooks.

Skills

GitHub Copilot

Agentic engineering

CI/CD

DevOps

Security governance

Enterprise architecture

Leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/engineering

Masters or MBA preferred

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Azure DevOps

MCP servers

Job description

Western Alliance Bancorporation seeks a Principal Engineer I - AI Engineering to lead enterprise AI capabilities, GitHub Copilot implementation, and agentic software engineering. You will define the technical vision, govern architecture, and collaborate with DevOps, Security, and governance teams to accelerate secure software delivery.

You will mentor engineers, set standards, evaluate new Copilot features, implement guardrails, and maintain runbooks and reference architectures to ensure