Director, Software Engineering
Director-level engineering leadership role at Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation): lead multidisciplinary teams running enterprise financial planning/forecasting platforms, custom Finance applications, and SaaS around the SAP ERP ecosystem, while enabling AI/ML adoption for Finance. Stack spans SAP, Anaplan/Workday Adaptive/SAP Analytics Cloud, Golang/Java, and event-driven integration.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- United Kingdom, London
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years leading enterprise application or software engineering organizations in a large enterprise environment
- 5+ years leading through managers, including organizational design, talent development, performance management, and succession planning
- Experience building and leading multidisciplinary teams across software engineering, enterprise applications, planning applications, systems analysis, product ownership, and technical program manageme
- Experience leading enterprise-scale financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario-modeling platforms
- Strong understanding of Finance processes, particularly financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and related operations
- Ability to partner with senior business leaders and own multi-year portfolio roadmaps balancing priorities, technical debt, and platform lifecycle
- Strong understanding of software engineering, enterprise architecture, integration, data, and cloud concepts
- Ability to develop technical talent and prepare teams to partner with Data Engineering and ML Engineering and operationalize AI/ML
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills
Nice to have
- Experience with enterprise-scale planning/forecasting platforms such as Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, or SAP Analytics Cloud
- Experience leading teams building custom enterprise solutions using Golang, Java, or comparable languages
- Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures and enterprise integration patterns
- Experience leading a portfolio of Finance SaaS solutions such as Coupa or Rightsline, including vendor management and operational governance
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA and integration of Finance applications with the core ERP
- Experience jointly delivering production AI/ML capabilities with Data Engineering and ML Engineering teams
- Understanding of responsible AI/ML application to Finance use cases, including data governance, security, and privacy
- Experience supporting technology-enabled Finance transformation in a large, global organization
Full description
Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
Role Overview:
The Director of Finance Systems Engineering is a technology and engineering leader responsible for delivering and evolving systems that enable critical Finance capabilities. Reporting to a Senior Director in IT, 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.
The Director will lead a multidisciplinary team that includes planning model builders, systems analysts/product owners/TPMs, and software engineering professionals. This leader will partner closely with Finance to translate business priorities and transformation objectives into scalable technology solutions that simplify processes, improve decision making, and enable greater use of data, automation, AI, and machine learning.
A key responsibility of the role is strengthening the team’s ability to connect Finance domain expertise with specialized data and machine learning capabilities, enabling Finance to translate its AI and ML objectives into scalable solutions.
The successful candidate will combine strong engineering and people leadership with Finance domain knowledge and experience across enterprise planning platforms, custom software development, SaaS solutions, integration architectures, data, and AI/ML technologies.
What you'll be doing:Finance Systems Leadership & Business Partnership
- 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.