Staff Data Engineer

Alkami is the digital sales and service platform provider for U.S. banks and credit unions. Our unified Platform integrates onboarding, digital banking, and data and marketing—each solution can stand alone, but together they deliver more—to help institutions onboard, engage, and grow relationships. As the future shifts toward Anticipatory Banking, we help data-informed bankers meet the moment with technology that drives action.

Founded in 2009, we continue to be recognized for our intentional culture and tremendous growth (Best Place to Work in Fintech; Best & Brightest to Work For Nationally; and Comparably’s Best Company Culture, Best Career Growth, Best Engineering Team, and Best Places to Work in Dallas, among others). We’re building a culture where each Alkamist can perform to their highest potential, and we’re always on the lookout for the best and brightest minds. If you’re ready to experience the power of alchemy - transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - come join one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the U.S.

As a remote-first company, most of our positions can be remote in the US, except for key roles, which will be indicated in the Job Title.

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The Staff Data Engineer will architect, build, and maintain data lake and data warehousing solutions for a B2B multi-tenant SaaS solution. Position requires a demonstrated ability to design processes from end to end and a strong technical understanding of modern data pipelines and strategies. In depth knowledge
of multiple data sources, data design patterns, ETL transformation, SQL and performance tuning are required. Ability to train and mentor team members and collaborate with cross functional team members.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire data pipeline lifecycle, focusing on building data lakes, data warehouses and related processes
• Contribute to the design and documentation of our data lake platform
• Partner with Sr staff on the development and maintenance of data governance policies and procedures that ensure data quality, accuracy, consistency, and privacy.
• Mentor other data engineers, providing technical guidance, and ensuring that team members have the necessary skills and resources to perform their duties.
• Conduct code and design reviews with junior and peer developers
• Write clean code to develop data pipelines and necessary infrastructure as code
• Aid in setting coding standards for team members to follow
• Partner with cross functional teams to understand requirements and effectively design appropriate solutions.
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance, scalability, and security issues, making improvements as needed
• Aid in determining and implementing KPI’s for performance and stability of platform
• Participate in the review of new technologies and tools for our data teams
• Partner with engineering and other cross functional teams to collect and implement technical and design requirements
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical team members to ensure alignment and successful execution of projects.
• Participate in cross-functional initiatives, promoting a culture of data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Participate in an on call rotation

# Required Skills:

Experience in the development of modern data architecture, analytics, data governance, AI/ML, or related areas.

• Strong Experience with AWS big data technologies including EMR, Glue, S3, EKS, Lambda, Athena, RDS, MKS/Kafka/Kinesis
• Expertise with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgresQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDb etc and data modeling principles
• Knowledge of data pipeline tools and workflow engines, e.g. Apache Airflow and Spark.
• Experience with DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployment/Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code/AWS Cloud Formation/Terraform.
• Successfully contributes to the entire development lifecycle of teams products
• Exposure to secure coding practices, access controls, authentication, and audit. AWS Lake formation preferred.
• Strong experience with SQL (SQL Server, Postgres) and Python, Scala

Identify opportunities for process improvement as well as efficiency in solutions Demonstrated ability to mentor junior team members

• Excellent analytical and time management skills, with a proven ability to deliver value independently
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience providing technical input to technical and non-technical stakeholders

The salary range for this position is: TBD

# Cool Things to Know

Not Just Any Company: Alkami has an awesome diverse and inclusive environment. We have a FUN culture and offer great benefits, including remote-first environment, unlimited paid time off, 401(k) with employer match, and more.

Work Authorization: We cannot offer employment sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.

Recruiters: We are not looking for outside recruiting firms to help us in this search. Thank you for understanding.

Pay Transparency: As of January 1, 2023, new states and locales have enacted pay equity laws that require more pay transparency by employers in the following states: California, Colorado (effective January 1, 2021), Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington.

# The Important Stuff

Alkami Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Alkami is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Alkami are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Alkami will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Alkami encourages applicants of all ages.

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