Staff Engineer II, Cyber – DLP Solutions Architect

westernalliancebank; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Alliance Bank is seeking a Staff Engineer II, Cyber - DLP Solution Engineer to design and guide enterprise data protection and DLP capabilities across endpoints, network, cloud, and SaaS environments.

You will collaborate with Data Security, Insider Risk, Security Monitoring, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and IT teams; act as a technical authority, own detection quality, and help translate risk into practical controls.

Responsibilities

• Assist in setting technical direction for DLP tooling, detection philosophy, control coverage, and implementation standards.
• Design and document DLP policies, detection logic, control frameworks, escalation criteria, and technical requirements aligned with business risk tolerance and regulatory expectations.
• Serve as a technical authority on DLP tools, including Broadcom/Symantec DLP, Microsoft Purview DLP, Varonis, data discovery/classification platforms, and related technologies.
• Assist in guiding engineering and operations teams responsible for hands‑on platform administration to ensure DLP controls are implemented accurately, consistently, and in accordance with approved design intent.
• Lead engineering design for enterprise‑scale DLP detections, policy implementation patterns, data protection workflows, testing approaches, and control validation activities.
• Assist in guiding DLP tooling strategy, including vendor capability assessment, configuration standards, integration opportunities, cost efficiency, lifecycle planning, and scalability considerations.
• Drive detection quality, coverage mapping, false‑positive reduction, policy tuning, and control effectiveness validation across DLP and data protection capabilities.
• Partner to enhance data classification, labeling, protection and policy enforcement capabilities across structured and unstructured data sources.
• Collaborate with Insider Risk, Security Monitoring, Data Security, and Information Technology teams to align DLP signals with broader risk‑based monitoring, behavioral analytics, and response processes.
• Support advanced investigations or data loss events of interest, including technical analysis, root cause evaluation, risk context, and control improvement recommendations.
• Partner with Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Audit, HR, and business stakeholders to ensure data protection controls are well‑governed, documented, defensible, and aligned to regulatory frameworks.
• Serve as a technical advisor to leadership on data protection risks, control gaps, tool limitations, maturity opportunities, and practical risk reduction options.
• Respond to audit inquiries and contribute to regulatory exams, internal audits, control testing, and cyber resilience initiatives.
• Partner to establish engineering standards, implementation guidance, operating models, runbooks, and technical documentation to support consistent execution by engineering and operations teams.
• Continuously evaluate tooling capabilities, data integrations, alert workflows, reporting, and operational processes to improve coverage, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.

Job description

Western Alliance Bank is seeking a Staff Engineer II, Cyber - DLP Solution Engineer to design and guide enterprise data protection and DLP capabilities across endpoints, network, cloud, and SaaS environments.

You will collaborate with Data Security, Insider Risk, Security Monitoring, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and IT teams; act as a technical authority, own detection quality, and help translate risk into practical controls.