Sr. Staff Data Migration Engineer

About this role

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 Sr Staff Data Migration Engineer serves as a highly specialized technical leader responsible for directing the organization’s most complex and strategic customer data conversion initiatives across Alkami Digital Banking implementations, mergers, and enterprise onboarding programs. This role applies broad expertise across migration architecture, banking data ecosystems, operational scalability, implementation strategy, and cross-functional leadership to drive successful execution of enterprise migration engagements and influence migration practices across the organization. The position leads large-scale coordination efforts involving Implementation, Technical Consulting, Engineering, Product, Operations, vendors, and executive customer stakeholders to align migration strategies, mitigate operational risks, and improve migration reliability and customer outcomes. The Sr Staff Data Migration Engineer is recognized as a subject matter expert who drives operational excellence, shapes migration
methodologies, and contributes to organizational strategy through leadership of transformational migration initiatives, scalable operational frameworks, and enterprise conversion best practices.Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the organization’s most complex and strategic data migration initiatives by directing enterprise-scale customer conversion programs, coordinating cross-functional delivery activities, and ensuring successful onboarding outcomes across high-impact implementation engagements

• Serve as the senior migration advisor for executive customer stakeholders by guiding strategic conversion planning, resolving escalated migration challenges, and aligning migration outcomes with customer operational and business objectives

• Drive enterprise migration strategy by balancing operational priorities, data conversion methodologies, resource planning, implementation timelines, and customer readiness requirements across multiple strategic migration engagements

• Influence organizational migration governance and standards by developing scalable migration frameworks, validation methodologies, reconciliation processes, reporting practices, and operational best practices that improve migration consistency and long-term delivery effectiveness

• Partner with executive leadership across Implementation, Technical Consulting, Engineering, Product, and Operations by aligning migration priorities, mitigating operational risks, and supporting strategic customer onboarding initiatives related to enterprise data conversion efforts

• Lead resolution efforts for critical migration escalations by analyzing complex data conversion failures, operational impacts, system dependencies, and customer risks and directing cross-functional mitigation and corrective action strategies

• Guide migration forecasting, operational capacity planning, and portfolio oversight activities by evaluating migration trends, organizational constraints, customer demands, and implementation priorities to support scalable growth and delivery optimization

• Provide thought leadership on enterprise migration architecture, banking data transformation practices, and operational scalability initiatives by identifying emerging migration challenges and recommending strategic solutions that improve conversion quality and customer experience

• Facilitate executive-level communication and stakeholder alignment by presenting migration health metrics, operational risks, portfolio insights, reconciliation outcomes, and strategic recommendations to leadership and customer executives

• Drive operational transformation initiatives by leading process modernization, automation strategy, tooling enhancements, and workflow redesign efforts that reduce manual effort, improve migration reliability, and enhance implementation scalability

• Develop enterprise migration governance and visibility practices by establishing operational metrics, reconciliation standards, reporting frameworks, escalation models, and portfolio health indicators that support organizational decision-making and delivery oversight

• Mentor and influence senior migration engineers and technical implementation teams by providing guidance on strategic migration planning, enterprise troubleshooting methodologies, operational governance, and scalable conversion practices

• Support strategic customer success initiatives by partnering with customer stakeholders to proactively address migration concerns, align onboarding strategies, and improve long-term implementation outcomes and operational readiness

• Analyze enterprise migration portfolio performance by identifying systemic conversion challenges, operational inefficiencies, customer risks, and scalability limitations…