Staff Engineer I

Job Title:

Staff Engineer I - Data

Location:

Block 23

What you'll do:

As a IT Staff Engineer I, you will work in a mid-level role with proficiency in one or more key products and will be responsible for managing and supporting the organization's IT infrastructure or applications. You will identify development and support needs as well as taking on design responsibilities supporting project tasks. As a IT Staff Engineer I, you are expected to possess or acquire expertise in contemporary automation and integration techniques, Cloud-First design patterns and frameworks, as well as advanced critical thinking skills. Also, you will facilitate dialogue and activities, while also ensuring team collaboration.

• Take assignments that can be worked on individually without supervision and manage work effort from concept to completion.
• 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. In Addition, will layout reference architecture and visual diagrams that capture work.
• Develop, implement and support ETL and data pipeline capabilities considering how data is created, transformed, stored, archived, analyzed, and shared across Western Alliance Bank and our partners.
• Perform data exploration and data profiling with tools such as Databricks.
• Apply recommendations and designs from Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture to data engineering solutions.
• Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to gain a working understanding of business requirements and operational processes.
• Participate in testing, deployment, and production support activities.

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of related experience in Development, Data Engineering, or similar field.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or data engineering or related field is required.
• Strong experience using Python and related libraries and Object-Oriented programming.
• Proven experience with data engineering specifically in Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) concepts and processes, enterprise data warehouse capabilities, database principles, and other related tools and technologies; preferably experience with SSIS and Azure Data Factory.
• Experience implementing and supporting cloud data solutions; Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Services, and Azure DevOps experience preferred.
• Experience working within Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solutions.
• Strong experience with at least one RDBMS and query language such as T-SQL, PL/SQL, Spark SQL.
• Experience in creating and adhering to conceptual, logical, and physical data design.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and ability to work collaboratively within a team.
• 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.
• Ability to lead 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.
• Experience integrating with data quality, data catalog and data lineage tools.
• 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 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 or call 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

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