PlayStation Global - Director, Software Engineering
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. • 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. • Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks. • Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights. • Equal Opportunity Statement:
Responsibilities
• 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
Benefits
• 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.
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