Staff Engineer II- Platform Engineer

Western Alliance Bank • Dallas, TX

7d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Staff Engineer II, you will provide expertise in a suite of technical tools and products in a given domain to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant, and reliable. You will identify, develop, and support needs, as well as taking on design responsibilities supporting project tasks. You will facilitate dialogue and activities to ensure team collaboration, including teams outside of your domain. You will develop effective presentations and narratives for your teams. You will be responsible for enabling 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. You will lead the strategic planning of a project as it relates to technical solution design. You will design and implement engineering principles aimed at reliability practices and sound recovery procedures. You will design transaction-specific application performance monitoring metrics that can be captured and passed to business partners. You will develop and maintain technical documentation, including system configurations and procedures, while also ensuring compliance with IT policies, procedures, and industry standards. You will develop desktop procedures when needed that others follow. You will build, configure, and manage enterprise data platform services across Azure and Microsoft Fabric environments. You will own platform availability, reliability, and performance, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response. You will implement backup, recovery, and failover strategies to ensure business continuity. You will manage capacity planning, cost optimization, and workload isolation strategies. You will implement and manage access controls, RBAC, AD groups, and secure connectivity (Private Link, VNet, Gateways). You will ensure platform compliance with enterprise governance, regulatory standards, and audit requirements. You will define and implement platform-level monitoring, telemetry, and observability frameworks. You will create and maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, and operational documentation. You will support production operations through incident triage, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 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)
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in a suite of technical tools and products in a given domain to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant and reliable.
• Identify, develop and support needs, as well as taking on design responsibilities supporting project tasks.
• Facilitate dialogue and activities to ensure team collaboration including teams outside of your domain.
• Develop effective presentations and narratives for their teams.
• Enable scalable, secure, and governed data solutions across the organization.
• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Ownership stake in the company
• Medical and dental insurance
• Time off
• Great 401k matching program
• Tuition assistance program
• Employee volunteer program
• Wellness program
• Opportunity to bolster 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: Senior