Sr. Technical Manager, SDET

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 19.5M users.

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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As a Senior Technical Engineering Manager, SDET at Alkami, you will lead, mentor, and scale a team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable, and reliable automation frameworks and testing solutions. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution, requiring you to stay close to the codebase and contribute directly to framework design, automation architecture, and quality infrastructure—spending approximately 20% of your time in hands-on coding and reviews.
You will own and evolve Alkami’s quality engineering strategy, driving quality-first practices across multiple product domains. Partnering closely with engineering, product, Dev Ops, and security, you will embed quality early in the development lifecycle through shift-left testing, continuous validation, and observability-driven feedback loops. As a senior technical leader, you will also focus on scaling people, processes, and platforms that enable reliable, fast, and secure software delivery at enterprise scale.
**** Key Responsibilities & Duties
***** Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of SDETs focused on full-stack automation across Web, Mobile, and API layers.
* May lead, mentor, and develop one to two Technical Engineering Managers (TEMs) and their teams.
* Contribute directly to the design, architecture, and development of test automation frameworks, tools, and libraries (~20% hands-on coding).
* Architect and evolve scalable automation frameworks and testing infrastructure to improve test reliability, maintainability, and velocity across distributed systems.
* Define and execute enterprise-level quality strategies encompassing functional, regression, integration, exploratory, performance, and reliability testing.
* Partner with development, product, Dev Ops, and security leaders to design and implement holistic testing strategies that ensure high-quality releases.
* Integrate automated testing within CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or Git Hub Actions to ensure quality gates and early defect detection.
* Oversee and interpret results from performance, load, and scalability testing using tools such as JMeter or Gatling; incorporate observability signals into quality metrics.
* Define and track key quality metrics (e.g., defect escape rate, automation coverage, stability) to drive data-informed quality improvements.
* Champion modern quality engineering practices including shift-left testing, mocking, service virtualization, contract testing, and risk-based validation.
* Ensure robust and scalable test environments, data management, and automation infrastructure that support rapid delivery cycles.
* Lead hiring, onboarding, and professional development for SDETs, fostering a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
* Represent quality engineering in enterprise programs, influencing architectural and design decisions to ensure reliability, performance, and customer trust.
**** Qualifications
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* Required:

*** Bachelor’s degree in…