Staff Engineer II- Platform Engineer

Western Alliance Bank; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental insurance

401k matching program

Tuition assistance program

Employee volunteer program

Job summary

Western Alliance Bank is seeking a Staff Engineer II to lead platform engineering across Azure and Fabric environments. You will drive reliability, performance, automation, and governance, collaborating with data engineers, governance teams, and stakeholders to implement cloud-first patterns.

The role emphasizes scalable data solutions, incident response, and architectural guidance while aligning with enterprise standards. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of related experience in Microsoft Azure Platform or similar cloud platform support.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science & engineering or related field.
• Expertise in Microsoft Azure & Microsoft Fabric including Fabric Lakehouse, Warehouse, Workspaces, Capacity management, ADF, Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL, ADLS, Key Vault, Azure Monitor.
• 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).
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and/or PySpark.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic planning of projects related to technical solution design.
• Design and implement reliability and recovery principles.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and runbooks.
• Build and manage enterprise data platform services across Azure and Fabric environments.
• Own platform availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, and incident response.
• Implement backup, recovery, and failover strategies for business continuity.
• Manage capacity planning, cost optimization, and workload isolation strategies.
• Implement access controls and secure connectivity (RBAC, Private Link, VNet).
• Ensure platform governance, regulatory standards, and audit requirements.
• Define platform monitoring, telemetry, and observability frameworks.
• Create architecture diagrams and operational documentation.
• Support production operations through incident triage and RCA.

Skills

Leadership experience

Azure Platform

Terraform

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Azure

Microsoft Fabric

Azure DevOps

ARM templates

Terraform

Job description

Job Title

Staff Engineer II- Platform Engineer

Location

TX - Dallas/Irving

What You'll Do

As a Staff Engineer II you'll provide expertise in a suite of technical tools and products in a given domain to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant and reliable. You'll identify develop and support needs, as well as taking on design responsibilities supporting project tasks. As the Staff Engineer II, you'll facilitate dialogue and activities to ensure team collaboration including teams outside of your domain. You'll develop effective presentations and narratives for their teams. You will be responsible for enable 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.

• Lead the strategic planning of a project as it relates to technical solution design.
• Design and implement engineering principles aimed at reliability practices and sound recovery procedures.
• Design transaction specific application performance monitoring metrics that can be captured and passed to business partners.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including system configurations and procedures while also ensuring compliance with IT policies, procedures, and industry standards. Develop desktop procedures when needed that others follow.
• Build, configure, and manage enterprise data platform services across Azure 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.

What You'll Need

• 7+ years of related experience in Microsoft Azure Platform or Similar Cloud Platform support experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science & engineering, or a related field.
• 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
• 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)
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and/or PySpark
• Working knowledge of data engineering frameworks and data lifecycle concepts, Fabric capacities, workspace configurations, and environment isolation,Data security, compliance, and governance frameworks
• Familiarity with data cataloging, lineage, and quality tools (e.g., Informatica, Purview)
• Previous leadership experience 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.
• 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

• 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
• a wellness program
• 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.

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