Senior Data Platform & Analytics Manager

Fi; Seattle, New York, San Francisco (WA, NY, CA); On-site; 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. You will shape the data product strategy and build the team required to deliver modern analytics capabilities in a regulated fintech environment.

You will set technical direction for data pipelines, warehousing, and analytics tooling, drive the roadmap, and partner with Finance, Risk, Product, and Operations to translate needs into scalable data models and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, infrastructure, or related field.
• 5+ years of direct management experience (6+ ideal).
• Experience owning a data platform end-to-end: pipelines, warehousing, orchestration, governance.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift and cloud IaC (AWS, Terraform).
• Experience with streaming/ingestion tools (Kafka, DMS, Flink) and security/compliance frameworks.
• Proven track record building or scaling a data team and mentoring.
• Comfortable in regulated environments (financial services, PCI/SOC2).

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 PII/PCI-compliant handling practices.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate reporting and analytics needs into scalable data models and self-serve tooling.
• Oversee dashboards, metrics layers, and semantic models; champion data quality and a single source of truth.

Skills

Data engineering

Team leadership

Data governance

Regulated environments

Hiring/mentoring

Stakeholder management

Platform architecture

Data modeling

End-to-end data platform

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Kafka

DMS

Flink

Terraform

AWS

Job description

SoFi Tech Solutions is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team, owning data collection, modeling, governance, and serving. You will shape the data product strategy and build the team required to deliver modern analytics capabilities in a regulated fintech environment.

You will set technical direction for data pipelines, warehousing, and analytics tooling, drive the roadmap, and partner with Finance, Risk, Product, and Operations to translate needs into scalable data models and