Senior Data Specialist

3 weeks ago

San Francisco, California, United States Social Finance Ltd Full time

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Specialist to join our Risk Engineering Artificial Intelligence team. As a critical member of our Independent Risk Management function, you will play a pivotal role in developing data-intensive solutions to drive data-driven decision making for Risk.

You will collaborate closely with senior leadership to identify opportunities, develop cutting-edge innovative data and AI solutions, and deliver actionable insights that will shape our risk oversight strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines to ingest, process, and store diverse data sets from multiple sources, ensuring data completeness and quality.
  • Perform data cleaning, validation, and transformation to prepare high-quality data sets for analytics, reporting, and machine learning.
  • Build and manage data staging environments and ensure optimal storage of structured and unstructured data for downstream applications owning data models.
  • Create and maintain APIs to expose data for internal teams, ensuring secure and reliable data access.
  • Work closely with AI/ML specialists, risk financial reporting analysts to participate in deploying enterprise-grade data processing pipelines to production.
  • Implement best practices for data governance, including data lineage, versioning, and monitoring to maintain data accuracy and reliability.
  • Identify areas for process improvement, automation, and optimization within the data pipeline and implement innovative solutions, support production processes to address issues, find root causes, and prevent future issue recurrence.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 8+ years of experience in data engineering or a related role building analytics solutions leveraging Git workflows, modularized coding practices, API calls, and web-based solutions.
  • Prior experience in working with machine learning teams and AI-based solutions deployment is preferred.
  • Prior experience in banks/financial companies is preferred.

Preferred Skills:

  • Expert/advanced proficiency in Python for data manipulation and transformation (e.g., pandas, NumPy).
  • Experience with large-scale data handling, including unstructured text processing, tokenization, embeddings, and data pipelines.
  • Strong experience in ad querying of database schemas using advanced SQL for data manipulation, querying, and database management.
  • Hands-on experience with data flow orchestration/scheduling tools for data processing workflows.

Cloud Platforms:

Experience with cloud-based machine learning and AI platforms such as AWS (SageMaker, Lambda) and Snowflake with a focus on GenAI model training, deployment, and monitoring.

Additional Skills:

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
  • Experience with version control tools like Git and CI/CD pipelines is desirable.

What We Offer:

SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.

The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

New York applicants:

Notice of Employee Rights

SoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email

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