Engineering Manager, Data Platform

About the position

As a Data Platform Manager, you will be at the helm of our data infrastructure, driving innovation and scalability to empower data-driven decision-making across our organization. You’ll work closely with cross-functional Engineering and Product teams to architect, enhance, and manage a robust Data Platform that aligns with our core mission: helping everyday people unlock their financial progress. Your leadership will directly enhance Chime’s ability to process and analyze large-scale data, ensuring seamless integration across multiple teams while setting the foundation for data accessibility, governance, and operational efficiency. This role is not just about managing a platform—it's about building a vision, fostering a culture of technical excellence, and leading a team that ensures our data infrastructure meets both present and future needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic direction of the Data Platform, designing a scalable and high-performance architecture that evolves with the business.
• Ensure seamless integration of data systems across the company, collaborating with Engineering and Product teams to align solutions with business needs.
• Oversee critical infrastructure, including real-time data pipelines, batch processing systems and frameworks that make data compute accessible for engineering teams.
• Drive performance optimization, enhancing query performance, reducing latency, and ensuring efficient data compute.
• Implement and enforce data governance, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, security best practices, and internal policies.
• Mentor and manage a team of engineers, fostering innovation and technical excellence while driving best practices for data engineering.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, evaluating and adopting new technologies to enhance our data capabilities.

Requirements

• Proven expertise in system architecture design for scalable data platforms.
• Deep experience with data infrastructure components, such as data lakes, warehouses, batch and real-time streaming pipelines.
• Understanding of data governance and compliance best practices.
• Hands-on experience with modern data technologies, including Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, and similar tools.
• Proficiency in Python or similar languages like Java, or Scala. Familiarity with SQL.
• Extensive experience with cloud-based data ecosystems, including AWS (S3, Redshift, Snowflake, EMR), GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow), or Azure.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to manage technical teams and drive cross-functional collaboration.

Benefits

• A thoughtful hybrid work policy that combines in-office days and trips to team and company-wide events depending on location.
• Hybrid work perks like backup child, elder and/or pet care, as well as a subsidized commuter benefit.
• Competitive salary based on experience.
• 401k match plus great medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• Generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days, bonus company-wide paid days off.
• 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice.
• Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses.
• Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
• Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
• In-person and virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers.
• A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress.