The RoleWe're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team. You'll own the roadmap for how we collect, model, govern, and serve data - and build the team needed to deliver on it. In the first year, that includes formalizing our Data Products strategy, launching a new analytics platform and modernizing our Data Platform capabilities.
This role is ideal for someone who has scaled a data organization before, is comfortable operating in a regulated fintech environment, and wants to shape both technical architecture and set the tone for team culture.
What you'll do:- Own hiring, onboarding, and career development for the Data Platform and Data Analytics teams; build out the team as the org scales.
- Set technical direction and engineering standards for data pipelines, warehousing, and analytics tooling.
- Manage team roadmap, prioritization, and delivery against business goals.
- Own the architecture and reliability of our data platform (ingestion, ETL/ELT, orchestration, storage, and serving layers), build a strong culture of ownership and incident response.
- Extend data governance, access control, and PII/PCI-compliant handling practices by leveraging SoFi's enterprise Data Platform and governance standards
- Partner with business stakeholders (Finance, Risk, Product, Operations) to translate reporting and analytics needs into scalable data models and self-serve tooling
- Oversee dashboards, metrics layers, and semantic models that the broader org can trust and use independently, championing data quality and a single source of truth
What We're Looking For:- 8+ years in data engineering, infrastructure, or a related field, including 5+ years directly managing engineers or analysts (ideally including managing leads or a team of 6+).
- Proven experience owning a data platform end-to-end: pipelines, warehousing, orchestration (Airflow, dbt), and governance.
- Strong knowledge of modern cloud data warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift), cloud infrastructure/IaC (AWS, Terraform), and streaming/ingestion tooling (Kafka, DMS, Flink), plus security/compliance frameworks.
- Track record of building or scaling a data team, including hiring and mentoring.
- Comfortable operating in a regulated environment (financial services, PCI/SOC2, or similar), with the stakeholder management skills to navigate a matrixed relationship with a parent company's teams.
- Strong systems thinking and ability to balance build-vs-buy, short-term delivery vs. long-term platform health.
Bonus Points- Experience in fintech, banking, or payments.
- Experience working within or alongside a larger parent organization (M&A integration, shared services, etc.)
Internal EmployeesIf you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.
