Self Financial is looking to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings, and the Data Engineering Manager role is crucial in achieving this mission by leading a high-performing team focused on trusted, timely, and well-governed data.
Requirements
- 6+ years in data engineering (or adjacent), including 2+ years managing or leading engineers.
- Expert SQL and strong Python.
- Hands-on experience building/operating ELT/ETL and orchestration (e.g., Airflow or equivalent).
- Cloud data warehousing (Redshift/BigQuery/Snowflake) and modern transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt or equivalent).
- Solid data modeling fundamentals and performance tuning.
- Experience implementing data quality, observability, and lineage; running on-call and incident processes.
- Ability to convert ambiguous business needs into a prioritized roadmap; excellent communication and stakeholder management.
Responsibilities
- Lead & develop the team: Hire, coach, and grow data engineers; set clear goals and feedback loops.
- Modernize pipelines: Replace legacy/fragile jobs with resilient ELT/ETL; standardize orchestration, transformations, and data contracts; retire tech debt.
- Model & transform data: Establish durable dimensional models and incremental patterns; improve performance.
- Quality & observability: Implement testing, validation, and anomaly detection; define SLAs/SLOs for freshness, availability, and accuracy; run incident response and post-mortems.
- Lineage & governance: Stand up lineage, cataloging, ownership, and documentation; enforce access controls, PII handling, retention, and auditability
- Cost & performance: Optimize workload management, storage layout, and query efficiency while maintaining reliability.
- Partner across Self: Translate business goals into a clear data roadmap with Analytics, Fraud, Accounting, Product, and ML; communicate trade-offs, risks, and progress.
Other
- 2+ years managing or leading engineers.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
- Ability to convert ambiguous business needs into a prioritized roadmap.
- U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders for employment opportunities.
- Successfully pass a background check.
