Architect III at Western Alliance Bank

Architect III for Western Alliance Bank – Phoenix, AZ

Job Description: Responsible for working with cross-functional teams to produce the design, development and deployment strategies for highly available, scalable and secure solutions in the Azure Cloud platform. Perform a diverse range of technical duties from business case definition to making the system operationally ready. Design and deploy Cloud software solutions utilizing Cloud native and on-prem services based on industry best practices. Develop effective monitoring, logging and auditing of production systems to satisfy information technology (IT) governance and risk mandated compliance policies. Apply methodology and governance to minimize business and technical risks and adhere to software quality assurance standards while contributing to the design and delivery of solutions. Create conceptual, logical and physical architecture documents for Cloud-based software solutions. Develop Cloud-based engineering and technology standards for enterprise architecture technology standard catalogs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams within the IT organization, including the business, product, network, security, development, DevOps and operations teams. Promote software architecture decision-making and identify alternative technical solutions while making recommendations. Analyze new and emerging trends in Cloud architecture to ensure standards remain current and relevant. Develop integration approaches for onboarding new delivery teams and capabilities. Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services within the domain of Cloud architecture. Identify the organizational and financial impact of software solution designs. Establish relationships with strategic Cloud vendors to acquire technical knowledge, develop partnerships, and collaborate on potential architectural solutions and technology acquisitions. Communicate architectural solutions to IT senior leaders and other critical stakeholders throughout the software architecture planning and design process.

Job Requirements: Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. 5 years of progressive post-bachelor’s experience is required. Must have some experience in each of the following skills: Cloud computing, storage and networking technologies, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Serverless, containers, automation, Azure Resource Manager, and Azure AD; Azure networking technologies such as Virtual Network (VNet), DNS, Load Balancer, Firewall, routing, and Function Proxy; Azure Key Vault, Azure Defender and Azure Sentinel; Cloud Management utilizing RBAC, Azure Blueprints, Azure Policy, Azure Cost Management, and Azure Monitor and alerts; Azure PowerShell and CLI modules; Azure Disaster Recovery service offerings; and Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines that include security scanning (SAST and DAST), containerized deployments, and automated testing capabilities (unit and regression tests).

How to apply: Mail resume to: Attn: Western Alliance Bank HR, 1 East Washington Street, Ste. 1400, Phoenix, AZ 85004. Please reference ID #188.

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