Sr. Data Engineer

Alkami Technology provides digital sales and service platforms for U.S. banks and credit unions. The Senior Data Engineer builds and maintains data lakes, data warehouses, and data pipelines for a multi-tenant SaaS solution, while contributing to platform design, governance, performance, and cross-functional delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire data pipeline lifecycle, focusing on building data lakes, data warehouses and related processes
• Lead code and design reviews with junior and peer developers
• Write clean code to develop data pipelines and necessary infrastructure as code
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand requirements and effectively design appropriate solutions
• 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
• Participate in data governance process
• Contribute to the design and documentation of our data lake platform
• Proficient in test automation solutions for data and ability to optimize performance
• Gather 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

Requirements:

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or 3 years and an advanced degree
• Education Level Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, math, data engineering or another related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience in the development of modern data architecture, analytics, data governance, AI/ML, or related areas
• Experience with AWS big data technologies including EMR, Glue, S3, EKS, Lambda, Athena, RDS, MKS/Kafka/Kinesis
• In-depth knowledge of the entire data engineering process (design, development, deployment)
• Exposure with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgresQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDb etc and data modeling principles
• Experience with DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployment/Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code
• Proficient in 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
• Strong experience with legacy data warehouse and ETL pipelines
• 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
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment
• Experience with multi-tenant, B2B2C SaaS offerings
• FinTech industry experience is preferred but not required
• AWS Cloud Formation/Terraform
• Understanding of MPP Data Warehouse (Redshift, Greenplum)