Senior Manager, Data & Analytics Engineering

Cherry Technologies, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Generous equity grant

Medical, vision, and dental benefits

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Cherry Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager of Data & Analytics Engineering to own how data moves through the organization — from ingestion to analytics.

You will build and lead a 2-3 person core team with rapid expansion to 6-8 engineers within a year, ensuring governance, security, and scalable self-service analytics for stakeholders across Finance, Risk, and Operations. You will shape the data platform, mentor engineers, and partner with executives to translate business needs into a

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering and/or analytics engineering with people management experience.
• Proven track record owning end-to-end data platform architecture from ingestion to consumption.
• Experience as product owner/liaison for technical platform tools, balancing feature requests with reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of Analytics Engineers and Data Engineers, setting technical standards.
• Own architecture and strategy for data ingestion, warehouse modeling, and analytics layer (dbt, semantic layer, marts).
• Define governance/security frameworks, RBAC, PII/PHI handling, masking, tokenization.

Skills

Data engineering

Analytics engineering

Team leadership

DBT

Snowflake

Airflow

Fivetran

RBAC design

Regulated industry

Stakeholder management

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

Fivetran

dbt

Job description

About Cherry

Founded in 2019, Cherry is a fast-growing FinTech offering the simplest, fastest, and most inclusive BNPL solution for medical practices—including dental, medical aesthetics, and veterinary etc. We help practices treat more patients by making care financially accessible. Cherry is led by Stanford entrepreneurs with a previous successful exit and backed by top investors, including Kleiner Perkins and DCM.

About the Role

We're seeking a Senior Manager of Data & Analytics Engineering to own how data moves through Cherry and how the entire company leverages it — end to end, from ingestion and warehouse architecture, through governance and access control, to the analytics engineering layer that powers self-serve analytics and decision-making across the business.

You'll build and lead a team spanning both Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering, including senior individual contributors who will help you execute as the team scales. You’ll start with a core team of 2-3 engineers, and one of your immediate mandates will be to rapidly scale this team to 6-8 engineers.

One of Cherry’s values is “Seek Truth Through Facts” and your primary goal is to enable data democratization that is efficient, secure and scalable. To do so, you’ll ensure that a broad range of internal stakeholders — from operational reps to executive leadership and technical data science teams — are served by the right tooling, data access, and governance model.

What You'll Do

1. Team Leadership & Development
   • Build and lead a team of Analytics Engineers and Data Engineers, setting technical standards across both disciplines
   • Drive rapid team scaling to expand the org to 6-8 engineers within a year, establishing clear career ladders as scope expands
   • Cultivate a culture of engineering rigor, code review, automated testing, and continuous delivery
2. Technical Architecture & Data Platform Ownership
   • Own the architecture and strategy for data ingestion, warehouse modeling, and the analytics engineering layer (dbt, semantic layer, marts)
   • Design and enforce data governance and security frameworks: role-based access control (RBAC), PII/PHI handling, masking, and tokenization in a regulated environment
   • Stay technically close enough to conduct code/architecture reviews, unblock technical bottlenecks, and step in personally on critical platform issues
3. Product Management & Stakeholder Enablement
   • Ensure every internal stakeholder group gets the right tooling and access model for their specific needs, from operational reps and executive leadership to technical power users in Finance, Credit Risk, and Practice Risk
   • Serve as the de facto product manager for data-related production systems and core infrastructure, translating requirements from internal partners into a unified, actionable roadmap
   • Define frameworks governing how decentralized internal applications and rapidly prototyped tools are built on Cherry's data surfaces, keeping self-service scalable and reliable

What We're Looking For

1. Experience:
   • 7+ years in data engineering and/or analytics engineering, including direct people management experience
   • Demonstrated ability to attract, hire, and scale engineering talent quickly while maintaining a high technical bar
   • Proven track record owning end-to-end data platform architecture from ingestion through to consumption layers
   • Experience operating as a product owner/liaison for technical platform tools, balancing business feature requests with technical debt and reliability
   • Background in a regulated industry (e.g., Fintech, Healthcare, Insurtech) navigating strict compliance and governance requirements is strongly preferred
2. Technical Skills:
   • Modern Stack: Deep expertise in cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake), orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow), and ingestion tooling (e.g., Fivetran)
   • Analytics Engineering: Mastery of dbt and core analytics engineering practices — data modeling, semantic layer design, testing, and documentation best practices
   • Governance & Security: Practical experience designing role-based access control (RBAC) frameworks, PII/PHI tokenization, masking, and automated access control systems
3. Leadership & Communication:
   • Experience coaching across distinct technical role types, and building out senior/lead layers as a team scales
   • Able to represent technical tradeoffs and governance requirements clearly to both engineering peers and non-technical executive stakeholders
   • Strong prioritization instincts when governance work, platform reliability, and business-facing feature requests compete for the same roadmap slot

Benefits (for U.S.- based full-time employees)

• Competitive Base Salary + Bonus
• Generous equity grant
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• Fully remote company
• Flexible PTO

Cherry provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.