Director, Software Engineering
Sony Interactive Entertainment
United Kingdom, London · GBR-London-10GMS · 5+ years experience · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Location
- United Kingdom, London · GBR-London-10GMS
About the role
- The Director of Finance Systems Engineering is a technology and engineering leader responsible for delivering and evolving systems that enable critical Finance capabilities.
- This role will lead teams responsible for enterprise planning and forecasting platforms, custom-built Finance solutions, and SaaS applications that complement the core SAP ERP ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Lead multidisciplinary teams responsible for planning and forecasting platforms, custom Finance solutions, and Finance-related SaaS applications.
- Partner with Finance leaders to understand business priorities and translate Finance transformation objectives into technology strategies, roadmaps, and solutions.
- Own the technology portfolio and multi-year roadmap balancing business priorities, technical debt, platform lifecycle, and operational sustainability.
- Establish engineering and product practices that balance speed, business value, user experience, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Develop strong partnerships with Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineering, ML Engineering, Integration, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and other technology teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions.
- Manage strategic technology vendors and implementation partners to ensure successful delivery, operational excellence, and continuous innovation.
- Build and develop a high performing organization across model building, systems analysis/product ownership, and software engineering disciplines while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Provide technology leadership for enterprise-scale financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario-modeling solutions used across Finance.
- Lead the engineering, maintenance, and support of custom applications and services that address Finance-specific business requirements.
- Ensure Finance solutions integrate effectively with SAP and the broader enterprise application and data ecosystem while maintaining appropriate architectural standards and controls.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of progressive experience leading enterprise application or software engineering organizations in a large enterprise environment, including accountability for multidisciplinary teams, technology delivery, and operational performance.
- 5+ years leading through managers, including responsibility for organizational design, talent development, performance management, and succession planning.
- Demonstrated experience building and leading multidisciplinary teams across software engineering, enterprise applications, planning applications, systems analysis, product ownership, and technical program management.
- Experience leading enterprise scale financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario-modeling platforms, including responsibility for platform strategy, delivery, lifecycle management, and operational performance.
- Strong understanding of Finance processes, particularly financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and related Finance operations.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with senior business leaders, translate business and transformation objectives into technology strategy and execution, and own multi-year portfolio roadmaps that balance business priorities, technical debt, platform lifecycle, and operational sustainability.
- Strong understanding of software engineering, enterprise architecture, integration, data, and cloud concepts.
- Demonstrated ability to develop technical talent and build new capabilities within an engineering organization, including preparing teams to partner effectively with Data Engineering and ML Engineering and to operationalize data, AI, and machine learning capabilities.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and cross functional leadership skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with one or more enterprise-scale planning and forecasting platforms, such as Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, or SAP Analytics Cloud, including solution design, model governance, integration, or platform administration.
- Experience leading software engineering teams building custom enterprise solutions using Golang, Java or comparable programming languages.
- Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures and enterprise integration patterns.
- Experience leading a portfolio of Finance SaaS solutions, such as Coupa, Rightsline, or comparable platforms, including vendor management, integration, lifecycle planning, and operational governance.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA and integration of Finance applications and services with the core ERP environment.
- Experience in jointly delivering production AI or machine learning capabilities with Data Engineering and ML Engineering teams, including integration into enterprise applications or business processes.
- Understanding of how AI and machine learning can be applied responsibly to Finance use cases, including forecasting, predictive insights, anomaly detection, decision support, and process automation, with attention to data governance, security, privacy, and enterprise technology standards.
- Experience supporting technology enabled Finance transformation within a large, global organization.
Skills
- SAP
- Anaplan
- Workday Adaptive Planning
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- Golang
- Java
- Coupa
- Rightsline
- SAP S/4HANA
