Senior Data Platform & Analytics Leader

SoFi Tech Solutions; Town of Tonawanda (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SoFi Tech Solutions seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team, owning data collection, modeling, governance, and serving. In the first year, formalize Data Products strategy, launch a new analytics platform, and modernize Data Platform capabilities.

You’ll hire and develop the Data Platform and Analytics teams, set standards for data pipelines and governance, and partner with stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions while ensuring reliability and trust.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or related field, including 5+ years directly managing engineers or analysts (ideally 6+).
• Proven experience owning a data platform end-to-end: pipelines, warehousing, orchestration, and governance.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud data warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift), cloud infra (AWS, Terraform), and streaming tools (Kafka, DMS, Flink).
• Track record of building or scaling a data team, including mentoring and hiring.
• Comfortable operating in regulated environments (financial services, PCI/SOC2) with stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own hiring, onboarding, and career development for the Data Platform and Data Analytics teams; scale the org.
• Set technical direction and engineering standards for data pipelines, warehousing, and analytics tooling.
• Manage team roadmap, prioritization, and delivery against business goals.
• Own architecture and reliability of the data platform including ingestion, ETL/ELT, storage, and serving layers.
• Extend data governance and compliant handling practices using enterprise standards.
• Partner with Finance, Risk, Product, Operations to translate analytics needs into scalable data models.
• Oversee dashboards, metrics layers, and semantic models, promoting data quality and a single source of truth.

Skills

People management

Data platform ownership

Data governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Kafka

DMS

Flink

Terraform

Job description

SoFi Tech Solutions seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team, owning data collection, modeling, governance, and serving. In the first year, formalize Data Products strategy, launch a new analytics platform, and modernize Data Platform capabilities.

You’ll hire and develop the Data Platform and Analytics teams, set standards for data pipelines and governance, and partner with stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions while ensuring reliability and trust.