Data Engineering Lead - AI-Driven Platform & Governance

Chime Financial, Inc; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 199,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

Backup care

Health & wellbeing benefits

Vacation policy

Wellness stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Chime Financial, Inc. seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to guide the Data team in building a scalable, self-serve data foundation and stronger governance. The base salary ranges from $199,000 to $275,000 with bonus, equity, and benefits.

This hybrid role collaborates with Analytics, Product, and Data Science to deliver trusted data products that power growth. The role emphasizes mentoring teams, driving innovation, and maintaining high data quality and reliability across the stack, including

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading Data Engineering teams.
• Experience building scalable AI-ready data platforms and trusted data products.
• Strong partnership with Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Marketing.
• Experience driving data quality, governance, CI/CD, and reliability.
• Experience with growth and marketing data platforms, attribution, funnels, experiments.
• Proficient with Spark, Snowflake, data warehouse/lake, and dbt.

Responsibilities

• Drive next-gen FinTech data initiatives and scalable data platform.
• Partner with Analytics, Product, Data Science, and stakeholders to deliver trusted data products.
• Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams with focus on excellence.
• Establish urgency and direction, driving operational excellence.
• Collaborate across teams to prioritize work and remove delivery obstacles.

Skills

Data Engineering leadership

AI-ready data platforms

Data governance

CI/CD & reliability

Growth & Marketing data platforms

Data stack experience

Tools

Spark

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

Chime Financial, Inc. seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to guide the Data team in building a scalable, self-serve data foundation and stronger governance. The base salary ranges from $199,000 to $275,000 with bonus, equity, and benefits.

This hybrid role collaborates with Analytics, Product, and Data Science to deliver trusted data products that power growth. The role emphasizes mentoring teams, driving innovation, and maintaining high data quality and reliability across the stack, including