Enterprise Data Engineering Manager

Job Title:
Enterprise Data Engineering Manager
Location:
Block 23
What youll do:
As the Enterprise Data Engineering Manager, you are accountable to lead a team of data engineers in implementing an enterprise data platform in accordance with the strategic data and analytics needs of Western Alliance Bank. This challenging role requires you to integrate data management and technology knowledge to develop a cross-business unit data tier that can be leveraged in new and innovative ways to improve our products and deliver insights. Utilizing strong critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills, you develop relationships across the organization that enable and advance the data strategy in support of our companys growth trajectory. This is aligned with the data engineering and platform needs for Western Alliance Bank Regulatory Reporting, including Large Financial Institution requirements.
As the Enterprise Data Engineering Manager, you lead, empower, and contribute to a high-performing centralized team of Data Engineers and partnered with Data Analysts and QA Engineers. Your team builds solutions to satisfy the complete data lifecycle management for our enterprise data platforms, including the data controls for data governance and data quality monitoring. The primary focus for this team is the data flows and integration required for Regulatory Reporting. You are a player coach who provides management, product ownership and hands on contribution to the teams solutions. You must demonstrate strong technical mastery as well as an aptitude for business subject matter expertise and the impact the data solutions carry. To be successful, you collaborate with architects, product managers, and business and technical stakeholders to deliver and support enterprise data solutions. You are the champion for growing the data engineering discipline across the IT delivery organization. Your team of full time and professional services staff consists of 8-12 of data professionals who rely on you for direct accountability for their development and productivity.
What we are looking for:
Implement data engineering best practices across the full data lifecycle including efficient technical hygiene and the use of Azure DevOps for the tactical implementation of the Western Alliance Bank data strategy and roadmap.
Integrate data governance and data quality controls into the data pipelines and data lifecycle.
Apply Test Driven Development Methodology to all data engineering solutions.
Ensure data engineers adhere to published architecture patterns and specifications.
Serve as the product owner for team including the oversight that agile stories are well formed and meet required acceptance criteria.
Provide resolution to production incidents related to the data platform as required.
Provide administrative management for a team of 8-12 data professionals.
Conducts frequent coaching with individual engineers on team to guide their professional development.
Matures the Western Alliance Bank data platforms and ecosystems through architectural principles and standards in tight collaboration with engineering and business line leadership.
Champions Data Governance through non-functional requirements in all data solutions.
Effectively communicates progress, issues, obstacles and success across business and technology stakeholders.
Commits to and demonstrates built-in quality and compliance by design in all data solutions.
Contributes to the strategy vision for the enterprise data and analytics strategy.
What you need to have:
Bachelors degree in engineering or related field.
8 years experience with data engineering specifically in Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) concepts and processes, enterprise data warehouse capabilities, database principles, and other related tools and technologies; preferably strong to expert in Azure Data Factory and Databricks.