Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform

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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 worlds 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 tomorrows 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 Role

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

This role is ideal for someone who has scaled a data organization before is comfortable operating in a regulated fintech environment and wants to shape both technical architecture and set the tone for team culture.

What youll 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 SoFis 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 Were 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 companys teams.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to balance build-vs-buy short-term delivery vs. long-term platform health.

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