Western Alliance Bank · 2 weeks ago
Architect III - Enterprise Cloud Solutions Architect
Phoenix, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expWestern Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. As an Architect III, you will lead architectural priorities that advance the business and technology strategy, ensuring compliance and reliability in solution architecture while collaborating with various teams.
BankingFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Act as an advocate & evangelist of architecture principles, standards, and patterns across the organization, helping the business and delivery leaders understand the business value realized through standardization, reuse, and modularity inherent in a robust enterprise architecture. Become a trusted strategic partner for your delivery organization's leader and senior engineers
Identify, propose, & lead opportunities to advance, & make more effective, capabilities for the domain through use of new technology, reuse of existing products, services or platforms, while helping incorporate those opportunities into application and platform roadmaps. Facilitate proof of concepts and pilots on new/emerging technology to gauge value and assess implementation complexity
Utilize a broad understanding of Application, Infrastructure, or Security capabilities and/or solutions to represent to Architecture peers in discussions with other IT and Business leaders. Develop a point of view based on problems or opportunities in the domain to clearly articulate options and recommendations
Qualification
Required
10+ years of related experience
Bachelor's degree in related field required
Advanced experience working in an architecture function with knowledge & experience developing reference architectures & patterns and supporting governance functions related to: Application Development, Cloud Compute, Storage and Networking technologies. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Serverless, Containers, Automation, Security
Proficiency with the Azure Cloud ecosystem including: Cloud Compute, Storage & Networking, IaaS / PaaS / SaaS, Serverless, Containers, Azure Resource Manager, and Entra is required
Experience with networking in Azure including Virtual Networks, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls, Routers, and Proxies is required
Experience with Identity & Access Management and security design patterns leveraging Entra, Azure Defender, Azure Sentinel, & Cloudflare is required
Cloud management expertise utilizing RBAC, Azure Blueprints & Policies, Cost Management, Monitor and Alerting is required
Proficient in automation scripting leveraging Azure PowerShell & CLI modules
Deep understanding of Azure Disaster Recovery offerings & options is required
Preferred
Previous leadership experience preferred
Intermediate knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred
Intermediate knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices
Advanced understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile and DevOps teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
Understanding of modern DevOps concepts including CI/CD, SAST, DAST, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is preferred
Experience with container-based solutions such as Azure Kubernetes or Docker is preferred
Experience with emerging Azure technologies such as Azure Fabric & Microsoft Foundry is preferred
Understanding FinOps principles and practical application is preferred
Benefits
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
A wellness program
Company
Western Alliance Bank
Western Alliance Bank is a banking firm that offers commercial and business banking solutions.
Founded in 1994Phoenix, Arizona, USA
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$400M2025-11-19Post Ipo Debt· $400M
2005-06-30IPO
Leadership Team
Tim Boothe
Chief Operating Officer
Barbara Kennedy
Chief Human Resources Officer
Recent News
2025-12-12
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