Azure Principal Engineer I - Data Governance

Job Title:

Azure Principal Engineer I - Data Governance

Location:

OH - Columbus

What you'll do:

As an Azure Principal Engineer I Data Governance, you will play a crucial role in supporting our hybrid compute environment with a strong emphasis on Data Governance. You will be responsible for providing support, implementation, and design services for Azure and banking applications, delivering on data governance policies and practices integrated into all aspects of the solution. Your role will design and implement new project scope as well as resolving and completing assigned cases and change requests, with a focus on maintaining data integrity and compliance. Your role is an escalation point for support issues, particularly those related to data governance. You will apply new solutions through research and collaboration within the team and with other IT teams. In this role, you will work closely with various teams, including data analysts, data engineers, enterprise architects, and business stakeholders. You will engage with project and business sponsors to refine requirements and objectives of targeted solutions, ensuring that data governance Control requirements are met. You will facilitate dialogue and decisions, ensuring effective collaboration with teams both within and outside your domain. By demonstrating technical competence, initiative, creativity, learning, sharing, and teamwork, you will contribute to the team's capabilities while mentoring junior engineers to develop their technical and collaborative skills. Your collaborative efforts will be essential in designing, building, and implementing critical components of the enterprise platform, ensuring that data governance is a fundamental aspect of all solutions.

• Build the solution design of efforts that can be handed off to lower-level engineers for execution assuring reuse of platforms where possible.
• Review technical plans developed by lower-level engineers and analysts to assure quality designs prevail which can support the volumetrics of our business partners objectives.
• Build comprehensive measurement dashboards that give performance insight into key applications of the bank which can feed operational results of our business partners.
• Work independently or sometimes with architecture team counterparts to lay out the final documentation required for proper ongoing reference of the given solution, including physical and logical layouts with cross reference to use case models while enforcing standards, as well as assisting in the modification or buildout of procedures that support areas of operations across IT.
• Collaboration with IT Governance assessments and audits, providing evidence to support control framework.
• Participation in business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and maturity.
• Participation in engineering support 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Provide escalation-level support to our incident, problem, and change management processes.

What you'll need:

• 8+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required, Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Advanced to expert knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
• 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 design, enhancement, and compliance to all governance frameworks across the IT organization to ensure proper compliance to published procedures and standards.
• Advanced to expert experience in NAS/File Share best practice design, implementation, and migration.
• Advanced to expert experience in hybrid cloud file data services, Windows File Server, Azure Files, and other vendor specific NAS solutions. Panzura experience is a plus. Varonis, Zscaler or similar DLP experience is a plus.
• Advanced to expert knowledge in Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) management and best practices.
• Advanced to expert experience in deploying and using data migration tools (i.e. Robocopy, Symphony, and other vendor specific tools)
• Advanced to expert experience planning and implementing a large and complex data migration project.
• Advanced to expert experience with data discovery, classification, security, and vulnerability management.
• Advanced to expert experience operating within an ITIL ITSM organization with a background using ServiceNow.
• Advanced to expert knowledge of diagramming software such as Microsoft Visio and Lucidchart.
• Advanced to expert user experience of monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Netbrain, LiveAction, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
• Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.

Benefits youll 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, youll 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 .... 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.

Western Alliance Bancorporation