Alkami is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States that helps clients to transform through retail and business banking, digital account opening and loan origination, payment fraud prevention, and data analytics and engagement solutions. Alkami’s Mobile App Platform has been certified by J.D. Power for providing clients with “An Outstanding Mobile Banking Platform Experience.”
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). Through our bold investments in technology and people, we empower our clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly, and build thriving digital banking communities through tailored experiences for over 18.6M users.
As a remote-first company, this position can sit in Plano, TX or remote in the US.
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Position Overview
The Data Engineer will build and maintain data lake and data warehousing solutions for a B2B multi-tenant SaaS solution. Position requires a demonstrated ability to write ETL transformations, query data, and write infrastructure as code. Knowledge of relational databases as well as cloud based databases and T-SQL.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Participate in the entire data pipeline lifecycle, focusing on building data lakes, data warehouses and related processes
- Pair with Sr team members on design and code reviews.
- Write clean code to develop data pipelines and necessary infrastructure as code
- Collaborate with internal teams to understand requirements and effectively accomplish assigned tasks.
- Monitor and troubleshoot performance, scalability, and security issues, making improvements as needed
- Participate in the evaluation of new technologies and tools that can improve performance of our system
- Gather technical and design requirements from internal and external stakeholders
- 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.
Knowledge, Skills, & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, math, data engineering or another related field or equivalent work experience required
- Requires 2 - 5 years of related experience in cloud native data offerings and data lakes in a cloud environment
- Experienced with relational databases (Postgres, SQL Server) and data modeling principles
- In-depth knowledge of the entire data engineering process (design, development, deployment)
- Awareness of release management processes and how data solutions are deployed via IaC
- SQL (SQL Server, Postgres) and Python
- Identify opportunities for process improvement as well as efficiency in solutions
- Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude and willing to take a variety of approaches
- Excellent analytical and time management skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience providing technical input to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and product teams
- Exposure to legacy data warehouse and ETL pipelines
- Familiar with data architecture and data modeling for data warehousing and analytical purposes.
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation
Preferred
- Experience with multi-tenant, B2B2C SaaS offerings
- FinTech industry experience
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. [$70,000.00 - $100,000.00]
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.
J.D. Power 2024 Mobile App Platform Certification ProgramSM recognition is based on successful completion of an audit and exceeding a customer experience benchmark through a survey of recent servicing interactions. For more information, visit jdpower.com/awards.
