Senior Engineering Manager, Data

• 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

• 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.)