Principal Engineer II

Job Title:

Principal Engineer II

Location:

Block 23

What you'll do:

Western Alliance Bank is seeking passionate, results-driven Developer Supervisor to deliver innovative, industry leading solutions. We want a creative, highly motivated development leader who can take initiative, have good sense of urgency and is comfortable working in a fast paced, agile environment while enabling team growth and individual performance.

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.

• Works both independently and as part of a cohesive team to deliver innovative software solutions to customers and business partners.
• Leads the translation of business requirements into tangible work tasks.
• Leads and reviews work product of peer developers, QA testers, and business partners to deliver high-quality solutions in a timely manner.
• Architect, design, create and maintain the full stack (front end and back end) of customer-facing cloud-based applications.
• Manages relationship with DevOps, Infrastructure and Cloud resources to drive solution requirements.
• Participate in the creation of new products and prototypes from scratch.
• Develop front and back-end website/app architecture.
• Contribute to continuous improvements of the existing product suite and conduct code reviews.
• Ensure web products are responsive and optimized for a variety of devices such as low-end mobile phones, desktop.
• Proactively identify and fix issues to improve backend service scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance.
• Respond to urgent bugs in a timely manner alongside engineers.
• Follow relevant company procedures and help create and maintain relevant documentation.
• Lead a team of developers including identifying growth opportunities for them and for the team.
• Build the solution design of efforts that can be handed off to lower level engineers for execution assuring reuse of platforms where possible.
• 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.

What you'll need:

• 10+ years experience in analyzing, designing, and developing using Microsoft Technologies and .Net framework.
• 10+ years Full-Stack development using Angular and .Net as Frontend and Backend technologies.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required; Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
• Experience working in other UI technologies like React, Node JS, Vue JS.
• Extensive experience with ASP.NET Web APIs to build Restful APIs.
• Leadership experience in building applications using .Net MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, SQL Server, JavaScript, HTML and CSS and driving peer review improvements.
• Mentoring and Performance enablement experience with Junior Developers on the team.
• Strong relationship management with business and backend shared services teams including infrastructure and cloud engineering teams.
• 8+ years of experience with IaaS, PaaS and SaaS resources in Azure or AWS cloud technologies.
• 8+ years of experience using Git, TFS/Azure DevOps for source control / project tracking / build management.
• 8 + years of experience in Database using SQL Server.
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system.
• Must be self-motivated and have strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced to expert knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.

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 in