Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Data Engineering (Contract)

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This is a 1 year contract to start**

As the Senior Staff Technical Program Manager for our financial services data engineering team, you will define, own and run broad horizontal data initiatives to deliver solutions that help our members achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions. This role is central to the success of SoFi. 

On the financial services data engineering team you will help drive our data strategy into the future, connecting the dots between products and stakeholders to deliver best in class data analytics and reporting. The basis of this is health and hygiene in our underlying data, which you will help uphold by driving data best practices within the team, ensuring that data producers and consumers have a trusted and flexible data environment. 

This high-visibility role will require you to collaborate across organizational boundaries with cross-functional leaders in Engineering, Product, Design, Business, Risk, Operations, Legal, Compliance and other critical functions to drive key initiatives and communicate with senior executives. Additionally, you will play a key role in ensuring SoFi meets all regulatory requirements collaborating with stakeholders across other lines of defense. The ideal candidate for this role will have a deep intuition for complex technological initiatives that enable product development organizations and other functions, a high sense of ownership, tenacity, curiosity and ability to align and mobilize large organizations to achieve strategic outcomes. Top notch communication, ability to collaborate and partner, and deliver programs that improve SoFi's foundational technology strength will be a key to success in this role. As a Senior Staff TPM, we look to you to set big, ambitious goals, be gritty, and hold yourself and your cross-functional teams accountable to deliver results on behalf of our members.

What you’ll do:
At SoFi, our ambition is to help our members achieve financial independence and reach their goals. We aim to be at the center of our members’ financial lives, and to help every member get their money right. You will be a part of the SoFi financial services data engineering team and our team is dedicated to build foundational technology and experiences that drive forward our mission to help members achieve their financial ambitions.

Key responsibilities:

• Partner with key stakeholders across the organizational boundaries and drive the strategy and execution of broad, horizontal data initiatives and communicate with senior executives and other stakeholders.
• Own the planning, execution and communication of data initiatives end-to-end with the highest levels of leadership in the company.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and uphold high team velocity.
• Assist in audits (internal and external); support the identification, inventorying, and remediation of findings and issues.
• Establish and implement processes and mechanisms for large organizations to operate smoothly and with strong execution rigor.

 

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree or higher with an engineering and technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in technical (software, data, engineering) program management.
• Ability to deliver large scale, enterprise-level, cross-cutting programs.
• Experience influencing stakeholders and executive leadership through strong written and verbal communication and analytical skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and bias for action.
• Ability to effectively partner with cross-functional teams.

Compensation and Benefits The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.    To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!

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