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Principal Engineer II

Western Alliance Bancorporation
dental insurance, tuition assistance, 401(k)
United States, Arizona, Chandler
3033 West Ray Road (Show on map)
Oct 21, 2025

Job Title:

Principal Engineer II

Location:

AZ - Chandler 3075

What you'll do:

As a Principal Engineer II, you'll provide your expert-level knowledge as the established authority in your domain as well as extensive knowledge across multiple domains to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant and reliable. You'll lead large and complex design efforts supporting critical projects and solutions while engaging with project and business sponsors defining requirements and objectives of targeted solutions. As a Principal Engineer II, you'll also engage in the facilitation of dialogue and large team activities, while ensuring collaboration to include teams outside of your domain. You'll develop effective presentations and narratives for business stakeholders and IT audiences.
  • Build the solution design of efforts that can be handed off to lower-level engineers for execution assuring reuse of platforms where possible.
  • Review technical plans developed by lower-level engineers and analysts to assure quality designs which can support the volumetrics of our business partners objectives.
  • Build comprehensive measurement dashboards that give performance insight into key applications of the bank which can feed operational results of our business partners while enforcing IT standards, and may modify or build procedures that support areas of operations across IT.
  • Work independently or partner with architecture team counterparts to lay out the final documentation required for proper, ongoing reference of the given solution to include physical and logical layouts with cross reference to use case models.
  • Architect, design, create and maintain the full stack (front end and back end) of customer-facing cloud-based applications.
  • Partner with Infrastructure, Networking, EDW and other DevOps teams as needed to ensure Business Continuity.
  • Collaborate with partners as needed to ensure DR plans are executed and signed off on.
  • Guide Restoration and Resolution of all critical outages and Production support issues.
  • Manages relationship with DevOps, Infrastructure and Cloud resources to drive solution requirements.

What you'll need:

  • 10+ years of related experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in related field required; Masters in related field preferred.
  • Strong relationship management with business and backend shared services teams including infrastructure and cloud engineering teams preferred.
  • Leadership articulating complex design decisions in simple terms for business and active follow-through in Agile ceremonies including planning, standups, refinements, and retrospectives preferred.
  • Experience with IaaS, PaaS and SaaS resources in Azure or AWS cloud technologies preferred.
  • Previous leadership experience preferred.
  • Advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
  • Advanced to expert knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
  • Advanced to expert experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously with an established expertise in one or more key domains of the bank (Deposits, Loans, Operations or Reporting)with the ability to walk through top level process design. Capable of working with regulatory partners like the CFPB, OCC and FRB through audits and collaboration efforts as situations arise.
  • Advanced to expert familiarity with the capability model across IT and the applications and infrastructures available for engagement in solutioning across the bank to develop results that leverage existing capabilities in addition to implementing new solutions when required. Experience in the design, enhancement and compliance to all governance frameworks across the IT organization to ensure proper compliance to published procedures and standards.
  • Expert 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 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 HR@westernalliancebank.com 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

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