Senior Data Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

📋 Description

• Lead and grow the FinPlat data engineering team that builds and maintains the financial data warehouse and lakehouse foundations that power operational, analytical, and AI driven decision support systems
• Own the strategy and architecture for financial data pipelines and models that support automation, monitoring, and intelligence across Block payment flows
• Partner closely with FinPlat Data Science, financial operations teams, banking product managers, and other stakeholders to shape data needs and deliver trusted domain products
• Represent data engineering for financial domains, communicating clearly with technical and nontechnical partners to guide decisions and align on long term direction
• Collaborate with other DE leaders to advance a standardized, functional, and AI ready data platform across Block
• Raise the quality, trust, and performance of core financial data systems to support accurate reporting, monitoring, and operational workflows

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in data engineering or a related software engineering field, including 4+ years leading or managing engineering teams
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience designing and scaling distributed data systems that handle high volume, high integrity financial data
• Deep understanding of financial data domains such as acquiring, issuing, chargebacks, disputes, and banking adjacent data
• Experience building and operating large scale data warehouse and lakehouse systems on Snowflake, Databricks, or similar platforms, including performance tuning and cost management
• Proficiency in SQL and Python combined with broader engineering skills such as version controlled development workflows, code review, automated testing, and modern CI practices
• Experience with orchestration and compute frameworks like Airflow, Prefect, Spark, and cloud native services across AWS or GCP

🎁 Benefits

• Remote work
• Medical insurance
• Flexible time off
• Retirement savings plans
• Modern family planning
• Inclusive interview process