Principal Engineer I - Senior Data Engineer

What You'll Do

As the Principal Data Engineer, you are accountable to design, build, and implement critical components of the enterprise data platform in accordance with the strategic data and analytics needs of Western Alliance Bank Regulatory Reporting Program. This challenging role requires the best of your data management, cloud data engineering and technology knowledge to develop a cross-business unit data tier that is leveraged to implement and enhance the Bank’s regulatory reporting capabilities, including Large Financial Institution requirements.

The Principal Data Engineer is a pioneer in our modern data platform working directly with data analysts, data engineers, enterprise architects, and business stakeholders. Embedded in the Enterprise Data & Analytics function, you influence the culture of data integration practices and are essential to mentoring other data professionals.

• Implement data engineering solutions that satisfy the full data lifecycle including efficient technical hygiene and the use of Azure DevOps for the implementation of the Western Alliance Bank Regulatory Reporting and LFI strategy and roadmap.
• Develop ETL and data pipeline capabilities considering how data is created, transformed, stored, archived, analyzed, and shared across Western Alliance Bank and our partner systems.

What You'll Need

• 8+ years’ 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 strong to expert in Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics and/or Databricks.
• 5+ years’ experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud data solutions; Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Services, Azure Synapse, Azure Logic Apps, and Azure DevOps experience strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Expert level experience with at least one RDBMS and query language such as T-SQL, PL/SQL, Spark SQL.
• Design and build reusable, dynamic PySpark components, including: Companion notebook frameworks, Shared helper functions and libraries, Parameter-driven ingestion and transformation patterns.
• Support and influence the migration from Azure Synapse to Microsoft Fabric, including modernization of patterns and frameworks.
• Expert level experience in conceptual, logical, and physical data design.
• Certifications within Azure such as Azure Fundamentals, Azure Fabric Data Engineer, Azure Data Scientist, and/or Azure DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with design tools as it relates to creating conceptual architecture diagrams and data flow diagrams such as Visio, Archimate, Lucidchart.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Familiarity with data science and analytics tools such as SAS, Tableau, PowerBI.
• Experience in Agile, SAFe, and/or Scrum is preferred.
• Experience integrating with data quality, data catalog and data lineage tools is preferred.
• Additional Cloud Data certifications with any major cloud provides (Azure, AWS, GCP) is preferred.
• Banking or financial services industry experience or other highly regulated industry experience is preferred.
• Regulatory Reporting, including Large Financial Institution requirements, is preferred.

Benefits You’ll Love

• Competitive salaries
• 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

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 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.