Western Alliance Bank

Risk

• Support identification, assessment, monitoring, and reporting of technology risks and internal controls as a first line of defense risk professional
• Partner with IT, business stakeholders, control owners, risk owners, and second line of defense partners to maintain effective risk and control practices
• Support risk assessments, control inventory documentation, issue and remediation tracking, audit and regulatory readiness, and execution of IT risk policies, standards, and procedures
• Use a data-driven approach to strengthen risk visibility, improve control documentation, and support Risk and Control Self-Assessments
• Track risk and control priorities, updates, action items, and remediation activities through completion
• Collect, validate, analyze, and organize risk and control information from multiple sources
• Execute assigned IT risk program activities and business unit risk deliverables within required timelines
• Support management of risks and controls across applicable risk categories and monitor adherence to policies, procedures, standards, and program requirements
• Facilitate discussions to confirm process understanding, review process maps, validate narratives, and document process-level risks, controls, dependencies, and key handoffs
• Coordinate with second line of defense partners to clarify expectations, provide status updates, escalate concerns, and resolve open items
• Document review results, observations, risk and control updates, process changes, stakeholder feedback, issue details, and recommended actions
• Identify and recommend process improvements to strengthen control documentation, execution consistency, transparency, reporting quality, and alignment with IT risk program expectations

Staff IT Analyst I – IT Governance, Risk and Controls

Full-stack Engineer

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Application Engineering, Security, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable AI capabilities
• Own the strategy, architecture, governance, administration, and operational support of the enterprise AI Gateway platform built on Azure API Management, Microsoft Foundry, and related AI platform services
• Enable secure consumption of AI services, agents, large language models, and MCP servers
• Expose internal APIs, tools, and enterprise capabilities to AI agents and copilots
• Establish API standards, governance frameworks, access controls, and AI usage policies
• Ensure platform availability, performance, security, compliance, cost optimization, and operational excellence
• Provide architectural direction and drive complex solution designs
• Develop technical standards, operational procedures, reusable integration patterns, API policies, security controls, and governance frameworks
• Design and implement observability, monitoring, logging, and usage analytics for AI workloads, APIs, agents, copilots, and model endpoints
• Implement data protection, model governance, and responsible AI controls
• Lead environment provisioning, capacity planning, service reliability, configuration management, incident response, and performance optimization for Azure AI and Foundry services
• Establish engineering best practices for AI workload lifecycle management, model deployment, API publishing, developer onboarding, and platform automation
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, models, and platform capabilities and provide technical recommendations
• Review plans developed by engineers and analysts, incorporate them into solution designs, and delegate implementation across the team
• Communicate technical strategies, risks, and business value to technical teams and executive leadership

Principal Engineer I – Foundry Administrator

Vice President

• Drive day-to-day lending team execution and cross-functional collaboration
• Manage a team of portfolio managers and analysts supporting Juris Banking Lending and Deposit Sales teams
• Oversee underwriting and origination of loans to law firms and related businesses
• Manage the health of existing client relationships and ensure compliance with Bank lending policies and procedures
• Manage portfolio manager and credit analyst workflow
• Own end-to-end loan execution, including prioritization, resource allocation and delivery against timelines
• Drive process improvements and workflow efficiency
• Serve as primary escalation point for standard transactions and portfolio risks
• Partner with sales to develop new and maintain existing client relationships
• Interface with clients in person, by phone and email to assess credit needs and determine appropriate structures and analysis requirements
• Complete loan prescreening
• Review prescreen memos, loan presentations, risk rating reviews, financial analyses, action plans and other portfolio management work
• Supervise credit concentration reviews, portfolio optimization and analysis of trends and factors affecting projects
• Lead and develop the team through hiring, coaching, performance management, training and development
• Reinforce superior customer service through example and follow-through

Vice President, Portfolio Management Team Leader – Juris Banking Lending

• Identify a target market for new business and develop and establish a book of new business from those relationships
• Negotiate, underwrite, and coordinate the closing of major and complex loans in compliance with Bank lending policies and procedures
• Develop business checking and deposit relationships with customers
• Assist clients with deposit-related products and services and recommend appropriate deposit product solutions
• Compile and analyze market research data to develop product and service recommendations
• Engage in business development activities and solicit new business based on the target market
• Collaborate with the treasury partner to ensure seamless client experiences
• Call on and visit target customers to promote and sell Bank products and services
• Develop and maintain the customer database and report on new business relationships
• Interview prospective applicants, request information, and resolve questions regarding loan or credit applications
• Perform pre-qualification assessments and analyze financial condition and financing risk
• Gather information for senior management or Loan Committee approval; meet customers, visit loan sites, negotiate terms, and recommend acceptance
• Coordinate processing of approved loans and resolve processing and servicing problems
• Maintain knowledge of financial industry status and trends
• Recommend products and services needing improved performance
• Represent the Bank in community, civic, and community reinvestment functions to enhance the Bank's image and develop business

Vice President, Commercial Banker – Innovation Banking

• Identify a target market for new business and develop and establish a book of new business from those relationships
• Negotiate, underwrite, and coordinate the closing of major and complex loans in compliance with Bank lending policies and procedures
• Develop business checking and deposit relationships with customers
• Assist clients with deposit-related products and services
• Gather and analyze client information to recommend appropriate deposit product solutions
• Compile and analyze market research data and develop product and service recommendations
• Engage in business development activities and solicit new business
• Collaborate with the treasury partner to ensure seamless client experiences
• Call on and visit target customers to promote and sell Bank products and services
• Develop and maintain the customer database and report on new business relationships
• Interview prospective applicants and resolve questions regarding loan or credit application information
• Perform pre-qualification assessments and analyze financial condition and financing risk
• Gather information for financing requests presented to senior management or Loan Committee
• Meet with prospective customers, visit loan sites, negotiate loan terms, and recommend acceptance
• Coordinate processing of approved loans and ensure compliance with agreements, customer needs, and Bank lending policies
• Obtain customer documentation and resolve loan processing and servicing problems
• Maintain knowledge of financial industry status and trends
• Recommend products and services needing performance improvement
• Represent the Bank in community, civic, and community reinvestment functions to enhance the Bank's image and develop business
• Assist the Bank in establishing and maintaining its market position in financing

Vice President, Commercial Banker – ABL/Tech

• Provide advanced technical expertise and hands-on engineering support across Lending technology platforms, primarily supporting the Lending Services Framework (LSF)
• Contribute to solution design and lead execution for assigned components involving loan processing, servicing, integrations, and reporting
• Design, develop, and deliver AI-enabled, cloud-native full-stack solutions for Lending platforms
• Apply Prompt Engineering, MCP, and RAG-based patterns to improve automation, solution quality, and developer productivity
• Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable APIs using Azure API Management
• Perform full-stack development using Azure, .NET, Python, React with Vite, SQL, and ETL technologies
• Use GitHub Copilot and approved internal LLMs while following governance, security, and compliance standards
• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Azure Pipelines
• Support observability, monitoring, and performance practices for operational reliability, audit, and regulatory expectations
• Participate in solution and code reviews
• Collaborate with business partners, architects, QA, and cross-functional teams to translate Lending requirements into technical solutions
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, configurations, design artifacts, and operational procedures in compliance with WAB IT standards
• Guide junior engineers and work toward broader technical leadership

Staff Engineer II – AI Forward Full Stack Engineer

• Support and execute risk programs and business unit risk activities in alignment with the company’s risk appetite and corporate strategy
• Serve as a first line of defense risk professional and trusted IT partner while engaging with second line of defense functions
• Monitor execution of policies, standards, procedures, regulatory expectations, and control framework requirements
• Strengthen control inventory documentation and evidence practices
• Support Risk and Control Self-Assessments
• Identify, develop, monitor, and maintain KRIs, KPIs, and operational metrics
• Partner with control owners, risk owners, first-line stakeholders, second-line stakeholders, and other partners to track risk and control priorities through completion
• Collect, validate, and organize risk and control data from various sources
• Execute assigned risk program and business unit risk activities accurately and within required timelines
• Engage with business units to manage risks and controls and monitor adherence to applicable requirements
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings to confirm process understanding, review process maps, validate narratives, and document process-level risk and control information
• Coordinate with second-line partners, clarify expectations, escalate concerns, and support resolution of open items
• Assess control environments to determine control effectiveness and document or escalate gaps, weaknesses, and remediation needs
• Prepare documentation of review results, observations, risk and control updates, process changes, stakeholder feedback, and recommended actions
• Recommend process improvements to strengthen risk and control documentation, execution consistency, transparency, reporting quality, and alignment with risk program expectations
• Analyze KRI threshold breaches, track and report metrics and trends, and monitor corrective and remediation activities through resolution
• Prepare and maintain risk reporting and dashboards for senior leadership, committees, and governance forums

Staff IT Analyst II – IT Governance, Risk, and Controls

Business Analyst

• Serve as the lead business analyst for digital asset initiatives
• Partner with stakeholders to identify, document, and prioritize business requirements
• Facilitate workshops, working sessions, and stakeholder meetings
• Translate business objectives into requirements, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications
• Analyze end-to-end workflows for automation, scalability, risk reduction, and improved client experiences
• Support digital asset product managers and project teams across discovery, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-production
• Assist in defining capabilities for digital wallets, stablecoin services, digital asset custody, tokenization, API-enabled banking services, and real-time payment integrations
• Collaborate with technology teams to validate solution designs and implementation
• Track project progress, requirement changes, impacts, risks, and dependencies
• Lead functional, integration, user acceptance, and production validation testing
• Develop test plans, scenarios, and test cases
• Coordinate testing and facilitate defect triage and remediation prioritization
• Document current-state and future-state processes
• Identify process gaps, operational risks, and efficiency/scalability improvements
• Support operational readiness, procedures, training materials, support documentation, and transition-to-business-as-usual planning
• Assist with controls, monitoring, reporting, and governance processes
• Partner with Operations, Technology, Product, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Customer Implementations, business leaders, and external vendors
• Prepare executive-ready status updates, business cases, process summaries, and project communications
• Ensure solutions comply with banking regulations, AML/BSA requirements, sanctions screening controls, and digital asset governance standards
• Support risk assessments, control validation, regulatory/audit/compliance documentation, project reviews, and examinations