Job Title:Staff Engineer II - Business Intelligence
Location:TX - Dallas/Irving
What you'll do:As a Staff Engineer II, this role serves as a technical expert responsible for designing, developing, and supporting enterprise data solutions. It provides advanced expertise in enterprise data engineering and platform architecture, ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, reliable, and aligned with business objectives. The position leads the design, development, and optimization of enterprise data solutions, including Microsoft Fabric, data integration, analytics, and cloud-based platforms.
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise data platforms leveraging Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and related cloud technologies.
- Design, develop, and optimize Lakehouse, OneLake, Data Factory, Spark, and SQL-based solutions supporting enterprise analytics and operational workloads.
- Build and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, and reporting frameworks supporting critical business functions.
- Collaborate directly with Business, IT teams, and Vendors to develop solution requirements.
- Embrace and follow detailed Change Management and SDLC standards and protocols, and contribute to their improvement.
- Produce and maintain related documentation, respond to audit and compliance requests.
- Develop technical and Business subject matter expertise, and provide support to peers and stakeholders.
- Contribute to innovation initiatives involving AI, Copilot, advanced analytics, and cloud-native data solutions.
What you'll need: - 7+ years professional experience in Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, or similar role.
- Proven hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric and modern cloud-based data platforms.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of professional certifications and relevant industry experience.
- Experience with or an interest in Mortgage, Banking, and Financial Services fields is a plus.
- Expert-level proficiency in SQL, data modeling, database design, and performance optimization.
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse, OneLake, Data Factory, Spark, Semantic Models, and Fabric administration.
- Strong proficiency in cloud data engineering using Azure services and modern data architectures.
- Core to intermediate proficiency with C#/.NET application development, and OOP.
- Proficiency with Change Management, SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps (ADO), Version Control (Git), etc. tools and best practices.
- Ability to build new solutions based on existing code, and design new solutions from scratch.
- Ability to understand, clarify, and design Business, Functional, and Technical Requirements.
- Experience with or an interest in AI tools (Copilot), etc. is a plus.
- Proficiency with VBA, CLI (PowerShell, cmd) is a plus.
- Microsoft Certifications in Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Engineering, Azure Solutions Architecture, or related cloud technologies are highly preferred.
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, 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, 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 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
