Senior Data Platform & Analytics Leader

SoFi Tech Solutions; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SoFi Tech Solutions is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team. You will own the roadmap for data collection, modeling, governance, and serving, and build the team to deliver on it. In the first year you will formalize Data Products strategy, launch a new analytics platform, and modernize our Data Platform.

This role suits someone who has scaled a data organization, operates in a regulated fintech environment, and can shape both architecture and team culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, infrastructure, or a related field.
• 5+ years directly managing engineers or analysts (ideally 6+).
• Experience owning a data platform end-to-end: pipelines, warehousing, orchestration, and governance.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud data warehousing (Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift), cloud infra (AWS/Terraform), and streaming/ingestion tooling (Kafka/DMS/Flink).
• Track record of building or scaling a data team and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Own hiring, onboarding, and career development for Data Platform and Data Analytics teams; expand 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, serving layers).
• Extend data governance, access control, and PCI/SOC2-compliant handling practices using enterprise standards.
• Partner with Finance, Risk, Product, Operations to translate reporting and analytics needs into scalable data models.
• Oversee dashboards, metrics layers, and semantic models, championing data quality and a single source of truth.

Skills

Data engineering

Team leadership

Data platforms

Cloud data warehousing

Architecture

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

AWS

Terraform

Kafka

DMS

Flink

Job description

SoFi Tech Solutions is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team. You will own the roadmap for data collection, modeling, governance, and serving, and build the team to deliver on it. In the first year you will formalize Data Products strategy, launch a new analytics platform, and modernize our Data Platform.

This role suits someone who has scaled a data organization, operates in a regulated fintech environment, and can shape both architecture and team culture.