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# Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform

- **Company:** Galileo Financial Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Warehousing, Data Streaming, Enterprise Data Management, Snowflake, Sofi, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Terraform
- **Published:** September 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1088683b213aa226

## About the Role

* 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.)

## Description

* 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


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