Job Title:

Architect III

Location:

CityScape

What you'll do:

The Corporate Solutions Enterprise Architect is accountable for solution design, architecture strategy and approach for providing solutions that support our shared services functions (e.g. HR, Finance, AML/Fraud, Risk Management, Legal & Compliance). This challenging role requires an ability to understand critical internal business functions supporting the enterprise & translates those needs in to designs that develop, orchestrate, and consume domain specific or enterprise wide capabilities. Additionally, strong strategic & critical thinking skills, as well as communication and collaboration skills, are required to develop relationships with multiple business partners & engineering teams to enable value add capabilities and services for our business partners that support our growth trajectory.

• Understands business drivers and business capabilities across our Corporate Systems domains to provide innovative solutions leveraging technology to realize business value.
• Develop architecture strategy, roadmap, & architecture designs for products & services supporting Corporate Systems platforms & capabilities.
• Develop artifacts, such as standards & patterns, that can be leveraged to optimize buy vs. build decisions & make best use of modern technology offerings from SaaS & Public Cloud providers.
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to support & achieve business growth objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential impact on the enterprise – both in new product development and cost/capability optimization.
• Participates in M&A efforts to assess use of cloud capabilities & develops integration approaches to optimize the holistic environment & leverage the best IP across the whole of the business.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Works closely with the Corporate Systems Application Engineering & Support teams to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements.
• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application.
• Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of solution designs.
• Evangelizes & supports efforts to drive delivery functions towards Agile & DevOps/FinOps delivery models.

What you'll need:

• 15 years of related experience, with 5+ years leading IT architecture and/or architecting & designing enterprise scale applications, & 5+ years working in Financial Services
• Have a technology upbringing with strong software development and design background. Full stack development experience is a definite plus.
• Knowledge and experience with Cloud technologies; experience with Azure technologies is preferred.
• Minimum of five years of experience working with an architecture function with knowledge & experience developing reference architectures & patterns and supporting governance functions.
• Deep understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
• Understanding of product management, agile principles, and development methodologies
• Significant experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and is able to develop content for & communicate with Executive Level stakeholders as well as Engineering & Scrum teams.
• Ability to build trust and respect as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and development teams.
• Objective mindset that is able to think ‘enterprise first’ and remain unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice, with decisions made based on data, analysis, & POC results.
• Ability to influence and work effectively in a cross-functional teams environment.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.  Master’s degree preferred.

Compensation: Salary range for new hires is generally $181,270.00 - $223,900.00 for Chicago, IL. Salary amount is determined by specific job location. In addition, the role may be eligible for annual bonus/incentives earned and restricted stock.

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 [email protected] 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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