Architect III - Enterprise Data Platform Domain Architect

Job Title:
Architect III - Enterprise Data Platform Domain Architect

Location:
Block 23

What you'll do:
As the Architect III, you'll be a member of the Enterprise Architecture team and will define and lead architectural priorities that advance the business and technology strategy of the organization in a specific domain. You'll participate in the Architecture Standards Board (ASB) and Technology Review Board (TRB) governance forums as well as manage the business capability inventory for their specific domain. You'll develop applicable standards and patterns for the domain, and bring forward to ASB for review and approval. Additionally, as the Architect III, you'll be accountable for the design and documentation of solution architecture relating to applications and capabilities within a specific domain. You'll work with the business, product, and IT teams to ensure the designs are safe, secure, compliant, and reliable, while also meeting the needs of the business. You'll also responsible to review the solution architecture design in TRB and ensure the design aligns to approved standards and patterns.

• Act as a advocate & evangelist of architecture principles, standards, and patterns across the organization, helping the business and delivery leaders understand the business value realized through standardization, reuse, and modularity inherent in a robust enterprise architecture. Become a trusted strategic partner for your delivery organization's leader and senior engineers.
• Identify, propose, & lead opportunities to advance, & make more effective, capabilities for the domain through use of new technology, reuse of existing products, services or platforms, while helping incorporate those opportunities in to application and platform roadmaps. Facilitate proof of concepts and pilots on new/emerging technology to gauge value and assess implementation complexity.
• Utilize a broad understanding of Application, Infrastructure, or Security capabilities and/or solutions to represent to Architecture peers in discussions with other IT and Business leaders. Develop a point of view based on problems or opportunities in the domain to clearly articulate options and recommendations.

What you'll need:

• 10+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Deep understanding of data architecture approaches and use cases for ingesting & consuming structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data (e.g., data warehouse, data lake, data lakehouse, RDBMS, etc.).
• Deep understanding of cloud-based (Azure preferred) data platform capabilities such as Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, & Azure Databricks required.
• Working knowledge of ETL, multi-source data integration (e.g., data stores, APIs, event streams), & data pipeline orchestration in terms of ingestion, transformation, cleansing, standardization, & curation of data is required.
• Solid understanding of data modeling concepts & associated tools (e.g., Erwin) is required.
• Fundamental understanding of data governance required.
• Understanding of data classification (e.g., PII, PCI, etc.) and data security (e.g., encryption, masking, access controls, etc.) is required.
• Understanding and/or working knowledge of large-scale analytics implementations utilizing Microsoft Power BI preferred.
• Understanding and/or working knowledge of Azure Fabric preferred.
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Advanced experience working in an architecture function with knowledge & experience developing reference architectures & patterns and supporting governance functions related to: Application Development, Cloud Compute, Storage and Networking technologies. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Serverless, Containers, Automation, Security.
• Advanced understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile and DevOps teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.
• Advanced speaking and written 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.

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