Staff Security Analyst

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.

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The Staff Security Analyst is an advanced security operations professional who leads the design, execution, and continuous improvement of Alkami's threat detection and incident response capabilities across the enterprise. This role applies broad technical expertise to solve highly complex security challenges, strengthen detection engineering, and influence operational security strategy through cross-functional collaboration and technical leadership. Operating with significant independence, the incumbent partners with engineering, infrastructure, cloud, and technology leaders to improve organizational resilience, mature security operations capabilities, and enable rapid, effective response to evolving cyber threats.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Lead complex incident response activities, including containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident improvements.

• Design, implement, and mature enterprise threat detection capabilities using SIEM analytics, endpoint detection, cloud monitoring, behavioral analytics, and automated response workflows.

• Conduct proactive threat hunting to identify advanced attacker behaviors, emerging threats, and indicators of compromise.

• Develop and maintain enterprise detection engineering standards, playbooks, tuning methodologies, and quality practices.

• Partner with Security Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Identity, and Application Security teams to strengthen security controls and reduce organizational risk.

• Lead forensic investigations across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and application environments.

• Evaluate emerging threats, adversary techniques, threat intelligence, and detection technologies to improve monitoring and response capabilities.

• Develop automation and orchestration workflows to improve operational efficiency and response speed.

• Establish and report on operational metrics related to detection effectiveness, incident response performance, and security operations maturity.

• Advise technology teams on monitoring strategies, logging requirements, incident readiness, and detection coverage.

• Mentor Security Analysts through technical guidance, investigation reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Contribute to enterprise security strategy, architecture reviews, and long-term cybersecurity planning.

• Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, and Legal teams to support regulatory, customer, and audit requirements.

• Research emerging attack techniques, AI-enabled threats, and evolving security operations technologies to continuously enhance security capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• 6–10 years of experience in security operations, threat detection, in