Staff Engineer II - M365 Digital Productivity Platform Engineer

Job Title:

Staff Engineer II - M365 Digital Productivity Platform Engineer

Location:

Block 23

What you'll do:

As the M365 Digital Productivity Platform Engineer, you'll oversee the strategic planning, execution, and reporting of various change initiatives in support of the Digital Productivity Center of Excellence strategic objectives. Within this customer-oriented IT organization, you'll develop a deep understanding of our customers, our technology, and the culture in which we operate.
This position is onsite only (4 days onsite and 1 remote day) located in either of the following locations: Phoenix, AZ / Dallas/Irving, TX / Columbus, OH.

What we are looking for:

• Foster relationships and communicate effectively across a wide variety of stakeholders, from bank executives to internal service providers to 3rd-party vendors.
• Train citizen developers on how to best use the M635 Power Platform.
• Drive innovation and keep up with current trends such as Co-Pilot and other technology impacting our program.
• Advise of best in class usage of the M365 Productivity and Collaboration tools that we are responsible for such as PowerApps / Automate, SharePoint, Teams, One Drive and Yammer.
• Quantify and measure project costs and benefits.
• Manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously and provide a weekly aggregate status across each.
• Collaborate with different technology towers to achieve common goals.
• Be a key leader in the bank's Intelligent Automation, low code, digital transformation, and citizen development initiatives, as well as an advocate and evangelist of the bank's AI strategy
• Harvest the best value opportunities to streamline, improve or automate which provides the greatest returns for the bank.
• Support a community of citizen developers and professional development teams acting as a catalyst for change within the Bank.
• Be an expert for our Microsoft M365 Power Platform implementation and guiding bank-wide initiatives leveraging the environment.
• Be an agent of change in our fast-moving organization, you'll be responsible for the realization of intended benefits of various projects within the Intelligent Automation program.

What you need to have:

• Extensive understanding of Intelligent Automation concepts including Robotics Process Automation (RPA), Intelligent workflow and Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI).
• Deep working experience with Microsoft Power Platform and leading efforts to utilize low-code platforms to achieve business results.
• Extensive and recent experience and In-depth knowledge of end-to-end development practices (SDLC) including risk, controls, audit, legal, and compliance controls.
• 3+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure.
• 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Power Automate/Apps, PowerBI, and related technologies.
• Microsoft Co-Pilot, OpenAI and/or other Gen AI technologies is a plus.
• Jira, Azure DevOps and/or Confluence is a plus.
• Proven Development Leader with ability to influence without direct authority.
• Self-starting "intrapreneur" with a growth mindset.
• Win-win, strategic approach to relationships.
• Technically sound yet customer-oriented.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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 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