Senior Engineering Manager, Data

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

Who We Are

Welcoming, collaborative and having the opportunity to make an impact - is how our employees describe working here. SoFi Tech Solutions (formerly Galileo Financial Technologies) is a financial technology company that provides innovative and revolutionary software products and services that power some of the world's largest Fintechs. We are the only payments innovator that applies tech and engineering capabilities to empower Fintechs and financial institutions to unleash their full creativity to achieve their most inspired goals. SoFi Tech Solutions leads its industry with superior fraud detection, security, decision-making analytics and regulatory compliance functionality combined with customized, responsive and flexible programs to accelerate the success of all payments companies and solve tomorrow's payments challenges today. We hire energetic and creative employees while providing them the opportunity to excel in their careers and make a difference for our clients. Learn more about us and why we work here at

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Team. You’ll own the roadmap for how we collect, model, govern, and serve data - and build the team needed to deliver on it. In the first year, that includes formalizing our Data Products strategy, launching a new analytics platform and modernizing our Data Platform capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• 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 strong culture of ownership and incident response.
• Extend data governance, access control, and PII/PCI-compliant handling practices by leveraging SoFi’s enterprise Data Platform and governance standards
• Partner with business stakeholders (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, championing data quality and a single source of truth

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years in data engineering, infrastructure, or a related field, including 5+ years directly managing engineers or analysts (ideally including managing leads or a team of 6+).
• Proven 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), plus security/compliance frameworks.
• 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), with the stakeholder management skills to navigate a matrixed relationship with a parent company’s teams.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to balance build-vs-buy, short-term delivery vs. long-term platform health

Bonus Points

• Experience in fintech, banking, or payments.
• Experience working within or alongside a larger parent organization (M&A integration, shared services, etc.)

SoFi Tech Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law. The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

New York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights

SoFi Tech Solutions is committed to an inclusive culture. As part of this commitment, SoFi Tech Solutions offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [e-mail].

We are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico at this time.

Internal Employees

If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.