Senior Staff Engineer

Western Alliance Bancorporation; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Staff Engineer, where you'll leverage your technical expertise to enhance solutions and optimize data management. This role requires a strong technologist who thrives in a collaborative environment, driving innovation in the Corporate Systems segment. You'll be responsible for developing high-performance applications, maintaining application sustainability, and ensuring seamless integration across platforms. With a focus on teamwork and outcome-driven results, this position offers a chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic organization. If you're passionate about technology and eager to grow your career, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive Salaries

Ownership Stake

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

401k Matching Program

Tuition Assistance Program

Employee Volunteer Program

Wellness Program

Qualifications

• 7+ years of development experience with modern technologies.
• Experience in implementing COTS solutions for banks.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex business issues.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance solutions using existing platforms.
• Collaborate with product owners to understand business requirements.
• Support investigation and troubleshooting of complex issues.

Skills

Python

Perl

Java

Data Engineering

Technical Leadership

Scrum Master

COTS Solutions

ETL Concepts

BI Reporting Tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

ServiceNow

Visio

Lucidchart

Tableau

Power BI

PowerApps

Job description

Job Title:

Senior Staff Engineer

Location:

Block 23

What you'll do:

As the Senior Staff Engineer, you'll be a technical expert who will be working with various business teams to understand requirements, coordinate with technology teams to design solutions and deliverables under Corporate Systems segment in accordance with the strategic needs of Western Alliance Bank. As part of the team that serves as the technical owners of the platform, you will be expected to put in policies and governance to maintain application sustainability and availability. The ideal candidate is a strong technologist with a practical data engineering mindset, is outcome-focused, and fosters teamwork.

This position is ONSITE only and you must be located or willing to relocate to Dallas/Irving, TX, Columbus, OH/ or Phoenix, AZ.

• Develop/Enhance solutions using existing platforms or assess the need for a new platform.
• Create and implement elegantly coded and effectively tuned solutions that enable high performance and ease of maintenance.
• Optimize queries and reports utilized within the platform.
• Build, maintain, and extend data models, design documents, project plan.
• Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to gain a working understanding of business requirements and operational processes.
• Support the investigation and troubleshooting of complex business issues.

What you'll need:

• 7+ years' of development and/or implementation experience using modern technologies.
• 4+ years' development experience implementing COTS solutions for banks.
• 2+ Years' experience acting as a technical lead, scrum master, or similar responsibility.
• 2+ years' creating controls and documentation including technical specifications, estimation documents, and architectural documents.
• Ability to quickly dissect and fix issues working with other team members.
• Code proficiency in one or more of modern programming language (Python, Perl, Java, etc.).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline.
• Working knowledge of design tools such as Visio, Lucidchart.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Azure DevOps. Jira, ServiceNow, DevOps tools.
• Knowledge of Cloud based systems and integration with SaaS applications.
• Working knowledge of the QRM platform and its functional capabilities.
• Experience with financial modeling and liquidity risk solution implementations.
• Knowledge of ETL concepts and large volume data handling between systems.
• Knowledge of mathematical calculations to summarize and aggregate large volumes of data.
• Working knowledge of BI / Reporting Tools (i.e., Tableau, Power BI, PowerApps).
• Banking, financial services or other highly regulated industry experience.

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 is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is 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 [e-mail] 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.

Western Alliance Bancorporation