Fintech Data Platform & Analytics Leader

SoFi Tech Solutions; Seattle, New York, San Francisco (WA, NY, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

SoFi Tech Solutions in Seattle is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team. You will 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, you will formalize 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,

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, infrastructure, or related field, including 5+ years directly managing engineers or analysts.
• 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).
• 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).
• Strong systems thinking and balance build-vs-buy, short-term delivery vs. long-term platform health.

Responsibilities

• 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).
• Extend data governance, access control, and PCI/SOC2-compliant handling practices.
• Partner with Finance, Risk, Product, Operations to translate reporting needs into scalable data models and self-serve tooling.
• Oversee dashboards, metrics layers, and semantic models that the org can trust and use independently.

Skills

Data engineering

People management

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Cloud data platforms

SQL / analytics

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Airflow

dbt

Kafka

Terraform

AWS

DMS

Flink

Job description

SoFi Tech Solutions in Seattle is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team. You will 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, you will formalize 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,