Principal Engineer II - MuleSoft API Developer

Western Alliance Bank • Columbus, OH

20h • Onsite

About The Position

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. 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 [email protected] 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. With more than $80 billion in assets, Western Alliance Bancorporation (NYSE:WAL) is one of the country’s top-performing banking companies. Through its primary subsidiary, Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, clients benefit from a full spectrum of tailored commercial banking solutions and consumer products, all delivered with outstanding service by industry experts who put customers first. Major accolades include being ranked as a top U.S. bank in 2023 by American Banker and Bank Director. Serving clients across the country wherever business happens, Western Alliance Bank operates individual, full-service banking and financial brands with offices in key markets nationwide.

Requirements

• 10+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Strong hands-on experience developing MuleSoft API's using GenAI tools.
• Strong hands-on experience with NoSQL.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Engage in the facilitation of dialogue and large team activities, while ensuring collaboration to include teams outside of your domain.
• Develop effective presentations and narratives for business stakeholders and IT audiences.
• Architect, design, and implement MuleSoft APIs for high-performance, scalable, and secure payment processing.
• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted API design and development using GenAI tools (e.g., MuleSoft AI, GitHub Copilot, internal LLMs) to accelerate API creation, reduce development cycle time, and improve code consistency across the Payments API landscape.
• Optimize vCore utilization for cost efficiency, resource allocation, and high availability.
• Develop resilient and fault-tolerant API architectures, ensuring zero-downtime deployments and disaster recovery strategies.
• Lead full API lifecycle management, from development and security hardening to deployment and maintenance.
• Implement API security best practices, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, certificate-based authentication, and encryption standards for financial transactions.
• Ensure adherence to FDX (Financial Data Exchange) standards for secure financial data interoperability.
• Build event-driven architectures utilizing Kafka for high-throughput and low-latency transaction processing.
• Implement NoSQL database integration (MongoDB, Azure CosmosDB) for flexible and scalable data storage solutions.
• Develop observability frameworks with ELK to monitor API performance, security, and anomalies.
• Optimize MuleSoft worker configurations, clustering, and autoscaling strategies for CloudHub deployments.
• Come up with strategy for future hybrid deployments – Cloud hub and On-prem.
• Implement MuleSoft High Availability (HA) clustering and load balancing to ensure resilience and failover capabilities.
• Enforce security policies and compliance controls specific to MuleSoft API gateways.
• Design and develop APIs using Azure API Management (APIM) to enforce consistent security, rate limiting, versioning, and lifecycle governance while enabling scalable, reusable, and well‑managed API consumption across platforms.

Benefits

• 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
• 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!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees