Chief Architect

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. 

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 14M users.

As a remote-first company, this position can sit in Plano, TX or remote in the US.

Position Overview:

Chief Architect ensures all development teams follow a consistent strategy and partner up with engineering leaders to deliver a reliable, secure, and scalable platform. In a nutshell, this role is the custodian of architecture.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Provide consulting and guidance to development teams throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including coding & design. 
• Build and maintain architecture roadmap and collaborate with engineering leaders to execute.
• Collaborate with team members to determine and maintain best practices and requirements. 
• Review software designs for architectural consistency and completeness, and fit.
• Partner with the CTO to develop a comprehensive Architecture Strategy and Technology Roadmap.
• Lead the implementation of the architecture strategy, partnering with senior technical leaders and product engineering teams to translate architecture into the design.
• Lead the development and implementation of the architecture governance framework (architecture guild, architecture review board, reference architecture(s), standards/policies).
• Ensure delivery of consistent cross-cutting concerns such as logging, monitoring, tracing, and security.
• Ensure up-to-date architecture and backend microservices documentation are maintained by partnering up with teams. 
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of the industry's best practices and technologies, including Defi, architectures, and emerging technologies consistent with Alkami’s objectives.
• Engage in hands-on prototyping and proof of concept work related to the architecture, including evaluating new technologies and solutions that might benefit our product.
• Contribute to a great work environment by providing exemplary leadership. 
• Serve as the primary steward and critical voice of the architecture strategy, communicating decisions and tradeoffs to all stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and applications, including design, development, (distributed) architectures, networking, security, and performance tuning.
• Motivated, autonomous, and responsible with a history of shaping and establishing technical vision and architecture within successful companies.
• A mentor, leader, and culture-builder. Has extensive experience leading complex technical projects, mentoring, and coaching engineers in tackling technical challenges at a large scale and accelerated pace.
• An outstanding ability to recognize, analyze, and synthesize complex information – clearly communicate insights in language, either technical or business oriented to audiences of varied expertise.
• Detail-oriented and curious. When faced with a black box - opens it up and figure out how it works.
• Effectively prioritizes time and can collaborate easily in any medium - email, Slack, phone, face-to-face.
• Great communication skills. Asking questions, listening, facilitating and arbitrating discussions, and presenting complex ideas to groups large and small and any audience from a senior engineer to C-level executives.
• Self-starter and self-motivated with the proven ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, high-energy environment.
• Works effectively with cross-functional teams to build a trusted partnership.
• Working experience in the consumer-focused finance industry is preferred.

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, 401k 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.

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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