Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform

SoFi Tech Solutions is a financial technology company that provides software products and services powering fintechs and financial institutions. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the Data Team, own the data platform roadmap, and build the organization needed to deliver data products, analytics infrastructure, and modernized platform capabilities. The role combines technical architecture, data governance, stakeholder partnership, and team leadership in a regulated fintech environment.

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 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

Requirements:

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