Application Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Application Engineer to join our WaFd Bank Technology team. This role is crucial in designing, implementing, and maintaining applications that support our banking operations and ensure efficiency, security, and compliance. The Application Engineer will be responsible for understanding customer needs, configuring and optimizing our banking products, providing technical support, and ensuring the successful deployment of our applications. The Application Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions tailored to the financial industry.

Successful Application Engineer must:

Lead by example.
• Develop productive relationships with business and technical leaders across WaFd.
• Demonstrate skill in diagnosing, addressing, troubleshooting, and resolving diverse application issues across multiple platforms.
• Reflect WaFd Bank's corporate values and ethics, including integrity, teamwork, ownership, simplicity, discipline, service, and kindness.
• Assist the manager in optimizing operational effectiveness, productivity, and
• Ensure a high level of customer satisfaction by delivering excellent.

1. Application Design, Development & Support:
   • Design, configure, customize, and optimize banking applications, including core banking systems, deposit platforms, loan processing platforms, document management platforms, file transmission, ITSM platforms and payment gateways to meet client specifications.
   • Coordinate and execute application installations, upgrades, and integrations.
   • Troubleshoot technical issues, perform root-cause analysis, and provide timely resolutions.
   • Provide post-deployment support to ensure seamless operations.
   • Identify and resolve technical issues to minimize downtime and enhance system reliability.
   • Analyze customer feedback and transaction data to identify opportunities for improved functionality.
2. Technical Consultation:
   • Collaborate with customers to understand their requirements and technical challenges.
   • Provide expert guidance on product capabilities and recommend solutions that align with customer needs.
3. System Integration:
   • Collaborate with internal teams and third-party vendors to integrate new banking technologies with existing infrastructure.
   • Ensure seamless data exchange between core systems, customer-facing platforms, and back-office applications.
4. Collaboration & Communication:
   • Act as a technical liaison between IT, business units, and external partners to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
   • Provide regular updates on application performance and project milestones to stakeholders.
5. Training & Documentation:
   • Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, user guides, and support materials.
   • Train end-users and internal teams on new applications and systems upgrades.
6. Deliver Exceptional Service:
   • Know the company's technology, financial products, regulatory climate, and functionality needs and use them to support business units in improving their products and services.
   • Maintain knowledge of Bank systems and processes to help with technical needs, projects, and audits.
   • Model integrity and professionalism, including personal appearance and conduct, banking industry knowledge, customer service and interpersonal skills, and value or needs-based selling techniques.
   • Ensure integrated, cross-departmental requirements planning for products, compliance, information, and functionality across departments efficiently to minimize the impact on business stakeholders.
   • Maintain relationships across the Company and develop a basic working knowledge of functional roles to support problem resolution and quality service delivery.
7. Protect WaFd Bank's Interests:
   • Manage daily operations, monitor applications' health, escalate/resolve issues, and ensure assigned work (i.e., general support, project, or product team) is completed promptly.
   • Utilize Agile methodology to track, monitor, and prioritize assigned work.
   • Adhere to bank policies and procedures designed to comply with federal regulations, including but not limited to the Bank Secrecy Act, USA Patriot Act and OFAC regulations. To that end, ensure timely and accurate preparation of Currency Transaction Reports, Suspicious Activity Reports and other recordkeeping requirements.
   • Complete and pass all assigned eLearning courses.
   • Avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest and maintain client privacy and confidentiality.
   • Train and support the team with product, technology, and operational knowledge.

Education/Skills/Training:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as an Application Engineer, preferably within the banking or financial services industry.
• Familiar with programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C#), database management (SQL, Oracle), APIs, middleware, and system integration in a financial context.
• Understanding of operating systems, networking protocols, and server administration, and cloud technologies.
• Understanding of banking regulations and compliance requirements.
• Experience with cloud-based banking solutions and platforms
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to share knowledge with colleagues.
• Ability to solve problems, handle complex and confidential information, and work cross-functionally.
• Knowledge of bank systems, including operating and network systems, with a strong desire to learn more about these systems and other technologies.
• Analytical skills to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and decompose high-level information into details.
• Listening skills, understanding what people say, probing when appropriate, and helping them articulate their needs.

At WaFd Bank you get all of these great benefits!

• Paid time off for vacation, sick days and holidays
• Health insurance
• Stock options
• Bonus programs
• Generous 7% 401(k) employer matching*
• Paid Parental Leave
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Long-term disability
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee assistance programs
• Pre-tax health and dependent-care spending plans

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