Principal Engineer II - Digital Banking Platform

About the role

Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands - Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank - that remain part of the company's heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, 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

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve scalable application architecture, APIs, event patterns, integration approaches, and engineering standards that support secure, resilient, and high-performing banking experiences.
• Partner with product managers, business analysts, architects, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and operations teams to translate business objectives and regulatory requirements into actionable technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, including solution design, estimation, code reviews, testing strategy, CI/CD, release planning, production readiness, and post-production support.
• Build and review high-quality, maintainable, secure code and guide engineers on modern design patterns, domain-driven design, API-first development, cloud-native practices, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, observability, performance optimization, resiliency patterns, secure coding practices, and continuous improvement across development and operational processes.

Requirements

• 10+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science is required; Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
• Strong understanding of financial services controls, compliance expectations, and operational rigor in areas such as auditability, resiliency, change management, and incident response.
• Previous people leadership, technical mentorship, or domain leadership experience preferred.
• Proven experience leading engineering efforts in digital banking, online/mobile banking, or related financial services platforms.
• Proven experience building or integrating digital account opening, onboarding, identity, authentication, and customer lifecycle capabilities in a regulated environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with modern software engineering practices, including object-oriented or JVM-based development, RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven integration, source control, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing and delivering secure, scalable, highly available applications with strong observability, operational support, and production reliability practices.
• Strong knowledge of system integration patterns, API design, identity and access concepts, data protection, and secure software development in banking or financial services.
• Experience working in Agile delivery models and leading cross-functional teams across product, design, QA, operations, security, and architecture.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and solution direction clearly to both engineering teams and senior business stakeholders.
• Preferred programming language/tooling experience: .NET, Java, Azure DevOps, Azure Cloud Capabilities, Mulesoft, and Groovy.
• May require up to 25% travel.
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Job Title: Principal Engineer II - Digital Banking Platform Location: OH - Columbus

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