Staff Engineer I - Enterprise Application Services

Western Alliance Bancorporation; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership stake in company

Medical and dental insurance

Time off

401k matching

Tuition assistance

Employee volunteer program

Wellness program

Job summary

Western Alliance Bancorporation is seeking a Staff Engineer I to own and administer the enterprise AI agent platform (Foundry). You will govern access, security, and governance, while coordinating with security, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure compliant, scalable operations.

The role requires 5+ years in software development, strong leadership, and experience with Microsoft Foundry tools; travel up to 25% may be expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related software development experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Experience with Python, C#/.Net, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with Microsoft Foundry; Foundry IQ preferred.
• Experience deploying Copilot Studio alongside Foundry-built agents or Power Platform preferred.
• Understanding of AI models, consumption-based pricing, and long-term cost implications of enterprise AI workloads preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of Financial Services or Banking regulatory requirements.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and project management; Azure DevOps exposure.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner and administrator of the enterprise AI agent platform (Foundry) ensuring governance and security.
• Manage platform operations: environment administration, access controls, monitoring, incident response, and governance.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, identity and application teams to align solutions with enterprise standards.
• Provide technical leadership for development, deployment, optimization and operation of AI agents supporting business processes.
• Design platform-level monitoring and observability with meaningful metrics for partners and auditability.

Skills

Software development experience

Programming languages

Cross-functional leadership

Regulatory/compliance knowledge

Azure DevOps experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Foundry

Foundry IQ

Copilot Studio

Power Platform

Cosmos DB

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Title:

Staff Engineer I - Enterprise Application Services

Location:

Block 23

What you'll do:

As an IT Staff Engineer I within Enterprise Application Services (EAS), you'll serve as the technical owner and administrator of the enterprise AI agent platform, including Microsoft Foundry. You'll be responsible for the governance, administration, operational support, security, and compliance of AI agents across the organization, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and guardrails. This role manages platform operations, including environment administration, access controls, monitoring, incident response, and governance processes, while partnering with security, infrastructure, identity, and application teams. Additionally, you'll provide technical leadership and guidance to enable the development, deployment, optimization, and ongoing operation of AI agents that support business processes and enterprise objectives.

• Create and configure Foundry projects, agents, connections and resources (Cosmos DB, AI Search, storage).
• Deploy and manage models from the catalog, configure quotas, and maintain content/guardrail policies.
• Assign and audit Foundry RBAC roles (Foundry User, Foundry Account Owner, Project Manager, etc.).
• Provide platform support - capacity, toolboxes, hosted agent runtimes, tracing and incident reports.
• Partner with Principal Engineer(s) to ensure solutions are aligned with engineering standards, approved designs, and architectural principles & patterns.
• Design & implement solution for platform-level monitoring & observability in a highly transactional environment that provides meaningful metrics to business partners and supports ensures transparency, traceability, and auditability.

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of related experience in software development or engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Experience with programming languages (e.g. Python, C#/.Net, or JavaScript/TypeScript) is required.
• Experience with Microsoft Foundry, Foundry IQ is preferred.
• Experience developing Copilot Studio alongside Foundry-built agents or Power Platform is preferred.
• Understanding of AI models, consumption-based pricing, and the long-term cost implications of enterprise AI workloads is preferred.
• 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.

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 [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