Senior Data Platform & Analytics Leader

Emploive; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SoFi Tech Solutions is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team, owning the roadmap for collecting, modeling, governing, and serving data. You will build the team and define architecture to deliver on data products.

In the first year, formalize Data Products strategy, launch a new analytics platform, and modernize Data Platform capabilities while ensuring security and compliance in a regulated fintech environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or related field.
• 5+ years directly managing engineers or analysts.
• 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).

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 and compliant handling practices leveraging enterprise Data Platform and governance standards.
• 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 broader org can trust and use independently.

Skills

Data leadership

Data Platform management

Team mentorship

Cloud data warehousing

Airflow/dbt

Security/compliance

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Airflow

dbt

Terraform

Kafka

Job description

SoFi Tech Solutions is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team, owning the roadmap for collecting, modeling, governing, and serving data. You will build the team and define architecture to deliver on data products.

In the first year, formalize Data Products strategy, launch a new analytics platform, and modernize Data Platform capabilities while ensuring security and compliance in a regulated fintech environment.