Director, Software Engineering

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.

• 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.

Planning, Finance Applications & Software Engineering

• 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.

• Provide leadership for Finance SaaS applications adjacent to the core SAP ERP ecosystem.

• Ensure Finance solutions integrate effectively with SAP and the broader enterprise application and data ecosystem while maintaining appropriate architectural standards and controls.

AI, ML and Data Enablement

• Partner with Finance leaders to identify opportunities where data, AI, and machine learning can improve planning, forecasting, financial analysis, automation, and decision making.

• Assess capability gaps and establish development plans, role expectations, and ways of working that prepare the Finance Systems Engineering organization to collaborate effectively with Data Engineering and ML Engineering teams.

• Enable teams to translate Finance business problems and domain knowledge into well-defined data, AI, and ML use cases.

• Partner with specialized technology teams to incorporate enterprise data, predictive models, and AI/ML services into Finance applications and business processes.

• Define how Finance Systems Engineering will evaluate, adopt, and govern AI and ML capabilities available through enterprise applications, internal data and ML platforms, and approved external services.

• Help drive adoption and operationalization of AI/ML capabilities within Finance while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, data governance, security, privacy, and technology standards

What we're looking for:

• 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.…

Source: Arbeitnow (https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk/jobs/companies/sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal/director-software-engineering-london-286218)