{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"c4ebc90cc935b2efb7d1da68","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c4ebc90cc935b2efb7d1da68","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c4ebc90cc935b2efb7d1da68","title":"Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform","description":"Employee Applicant Privacy Notice\n\nWho we are:\n\nWelcoming, 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 https://tech.sofi.com/careers/.\n\nThe Role\n\nWe'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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nWhat you'll do:\n\nOwn hiring, onboarding, and career development for the Data Platform and Data Analytics teams; build out the team as the org scales.\nSet technical direction and engineering standards for data pipelines, warehousing, and analytics tooling.\nManage team roadmap, prioritization, and delivery against business goals.\nOwn 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.\nExtend data governance, access control, and PII/PCI-compliant handling practices by leveraging SoFi's enterprise Data Platform and governance standards\nPartner with business stakeholders (Finance, Risk, Product, Operations) to translate reporting and analytics needs into scalable data models and self-serve tooling\nOversee dashboards, metrics layers, and semantic models that the broader org can trust and use independently, championing data quality and a single source of truth\n\nWhat We're Looking For:\n\n8+ 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+).\nProven experience owning a data platform end-to-end: pipelines, warehousing, orchestration (Airflow, dbt), and governance.\nStrong 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.\nTrack record of building or scaling a data team, including hiring and mentoring.\nComfortable 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.\nStrong systems thinking and ability to balance build-vs-buy, short-term delivery vs. long-term platform health.\nBonus Points\nExperience in fintech, banking, or payments.\nExperience working within or alongside a larger parent organization (M&A integration, shared services, etc.)\nSoFi 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.\nThe Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nNew York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights\nSoFi 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 accommodations@sofi.com.\nWe are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico at this time.\nInternal Employees\nIf you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.","company":"Sofi Tech Solutions","rawCompany":"sofi tech solutions","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-23T09:20:08.985Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1243.01","title":"Data Warehousing Specialists","slug":"data-warehousing-specialists"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"11-3021.00","title":"Computer and Information Systems Managers","slug":"computer-and-information-systems-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform","description":"Employee Applicant Privacy Notice\n\nWho we are:\n\nWelcoming, 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 https://tech.sofi.com/careers/.\n\nThe Role\n\nWe'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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nWhat you'll do:\n\nOwn hiring, onboarding, and career development for the Data Platform and Data Analytics teams; build out the team as the org scales.\nSet technical direction and engineering standards for data pipelines, warehousing, and analytics tooling.\nManage team roadmap, prioritization, and delivery against business goals.\nOwn 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.\nExtend data governance, access control, and PII/PCI-compliant handling practices by leveraging SoFi's enterprise Data Platform and governance standards\nPartner with business stakeholders (Finance, Risk, Product, Operations) to translate reporting and analytics needs into scalable data models and self-serve tooling\nOversee dashboards, metrics layers, and semantic models that the broader org can trust and use independently, championing data quality and a single source of truth\n\nWhat We're Looking For:\n\n8+ 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+).\nProven experience owning a data platform end-to-end: pipelines, warehousing, orchestration (Airflow, dbt), and governance.\nStrong 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.\nTrack record of building or scaling a data team, including hiring and mentoring.\nComfortable 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.\nStrong systems thinking and ability to balance build-vs-buy, short-term delivery vs. long-term platform health.\nBonus Points\nExperience in fintech, banking, or payments.\nExperience working within or alongside a larger parent organization (M&A integration, shared services, etc.)\nSoFi 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.\nThe Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nNew York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights\nSoFi 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. 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