Head of Financial Systems Engineering

You will report to the CFO and set the engineering vision, target architecture, and delivery roadmap for financial systems. You will lead specialists, improve financial-data quality and lineage, modernize ledgers and integrations, strengthen reconciliation and controls, and ensure reliable, auditable production operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering vision and roadmap for financial systems
• Assess fragmented systems and define a target architecture and transformation plan
• Lead, coach, and grow specialists in financial systems, data engineering, integrations, and ledger services
• Set standards for financial-data completeness, quality, lineage, and ownership
• Guide architecture decisions for ledgers, subledgers, APIs, data models, and integrations
• Improve attribution, controls, reconciliation, exception handling, and record traceability
• Lead modernization and migration without disrupting critical finance operations
• Establish testing, documentation, observability, release controls, and incident response practices
• Partner on system boundaries, access controls, resilience, regulatory needs, and auditability
• Evaluate build, buy, and integration options and communicate architectural tradeoffs

Requirements

• Significant software engineering and technical leadership experience
• Experience leading experienced teams through complex financial-systems or data-architecture change
• Deep understanding of ledgers, subledgers, double-entry concepts, reconciliation, settlement, and auditable financial records
• Experience with crypto or digital-asset infrastructure
• Technical judgment in distributed systems, data engineering, APIs, event-driven processing, and integrations
• Experience delivering transformation roadmaps across fragmented or legacy systems
• Experience designing for data completeness, accuracy, lineage, reconciliation, access control, and auditability
• Experience with production operations, incident response, monitoring, debugging, change management, and reliability
• Ability to partner with senior finance and engineering leaders
• Clear communication of priorities and tradeoffs

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus
• Wellness allowance
• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• 401(k)