Senior Technical Project Coordinator

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What you'll do:

• Work with senior project manager to protect the team from over-committing and scope creep. Aid in estimation, sub-task creation, and sprint reviews. Capture feedback and note areas for improvement. Meet with team members and stakeholders as needed. Resolve team disagreements about process and work styles. Analyze burndown charts and portfolio planning tools. Eliminate external blockers and manage internal roadblocks.
• Interface with business units to understand and document requirements, ensuring they are well thought through, and translate them into functional and technical requirements. Collaborate with engineering technical leads and engineers, conduct and read technical documentation, and explore data and workflow automation.
• Participate and contribute to projects from initiation to completion, monitor progress, implement mitigation strategies, and develop detailed project plans while coordinating with departments and stakeholders. Facilitate regular project meetings, ensure effective communication and collaboration, and ensure projects go through the software development life cycle (SDLC). Understand IT function terms and workflow including security, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, WorkFront, etc.

What you'll need:

• 3+ years of related experience or similar field.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field required.
• Entry-level knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
• Entry-level knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Intermediate organizational and interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with team members, stakeholders, and external partners.
• Intermediate experience communicating over various tools as well as experience responding to inquiries/questions from managers and senior leadership.
• Intermediate speaking and writing communication skills.
• Project Management Professional Certification, Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Scrum Master Certification (CSM), Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Fundamentals, or Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge preferred.
• Occasional travel required.

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 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