Senior Data Platform & Analytics Leader

SoFi Tech Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SoFi Tech Solutions is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team, owning data collection, modeling, governance, and serving data. You will formalize our Data Products strategy, launch a new analytics platform, and modernize the Data Platform.

This role involves scaling a data organization in a regulated fintech environment and shaping both architecture and team culture. Lead cross-functional partnerships with Finance, Risk, Product, and Operations to deliver trusted data

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or related field, with 5+ years of people management (6+ team).
• End-to-end data platform ownership: pipelines, warehousing, orchestration, governance.
• Strong cloud data warehousing knowledge: Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, AWS, Terraform.
• Experience building/scaling a data team, including hiring and mentoring.
• Familiar with regulated environments (PCI/SOC2) and stakeholder management.

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), build a culture of ownership and incident response.
• Extend data governance, access control, and PCI/PII handling via SoFi’s Data Platform and governance standards.
• Partner with Finance, Risk, Product, Operations to translate reporting and analytics 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

Team leadership

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Systems thinking

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

AWS

Terraform

Kafka

DMS

Flink

Job description

SoFi Tech Solutions is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team, owning data collection, modeling, governance, and serving data. You will formalize our Data Products strategy, launch a new analytics platform, and modernize the Data Platform.

This role involves scaling a data organization in a regulated fintech environment and shaping both architecture and team culture. Lead cross-functional partnerships with Finance, Risk, Product, and Operations to deliver trusted data