Staff Engineer II - MuleSoft API Development

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What you'll do:

• Lead API gateways and API management platforms such as MuleSoft API Manager including policy implementation, consumer onboarding, monitoring, and operational support.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, governance controls, and architectural best practices across multiple application teams to ensure APIs are secure, compliant, reliable, and reusable.
• Lead the strategic planning of a project as it relates to technical solution design.
• Design and implement engineering principles aimed at reliability practices and sound recovery procedures.
• Design transaction specific application performance monitoring metrics that can be captured and passed to business partners.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including system configurations and procedures while also ensuring compliance with IT policies, procedures, and industry standards. Develop desktop procedures when needed that others follow.

What you'll need:

• 7+ years of related experience IT App Support, IT Development, IT Networking, or similar field.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related IT field required.
• 3-5 years of MuleSoft AnypointPlatform experience including designing, developing, and supporting APIs and integrations using MuleSoft anypointPlatform, including API Manager, Runtime Manager, Exchange, and CloudHub/Hybrid deployments..
• Experience in Financial Services API ecosystems and API programs including Governance, lifecycle management, enterprise API standards, and gateway policy enforcement.
• Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, automated API quality checks, and API security scanning.
• Knowledge of FDX, Open Banking, OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience partnering with Architecture, Information Security, Risk, and Development teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and technology roadmaps.
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Advanced proven experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously. Additional experience with pipeline development and leveraging Azure DevOps while working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Advanced ability to see the big picture and align projects with organizational goals. Capable of leading and motivating cross-functional teams. Expertise in resolving conflicts and addressing challenges as well as skilled at identifying and mitigating risks at the project level. Proficient in governance patterns tied to intake, technical reviews and architectural compliance.
• Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.
• May require up to 25% travel.

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 HR@westernalliancebank.com 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.

Western Alliance Bancorporation