Data Software Engineer, Financial Systems

6 Days ago • 5 Years + • Finance • $137,800 PA - $206,600 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Data Software Engineer in the Financial Systems department, you'll develop and support a core financial platform within a 24x7 cloud-based environment. Responsibilities encompass production support, resolving job failures, root cause analysis, developing custom reports for finance, legal, and audit teams, and analyzing transaction-level details. You will work with Golang, SQL, JavaScript, and NodeJS, and be involved in all aspects of the financial data pipeline, from ingestion to reporting. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are essential, along with a sound understanding of accounting principles and various business models.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience
  • Production support (24x7)
  • SQL, Golang, JavaScript, NodeJS
  • AWS cloud experience
  • Data ETL tools
  • Relational databases
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Accounting knowledge
Good to have:
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Apache Kafka
  • Bash scripting
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
Perks:
  • Competitive salary
  • 401k matching
  • Education assistance
  • Paid leave
  • On-site gym and cafe
  • Remote work flexibility
  • Employee discounts

Job Details

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Role:      Data Software Engineer, Financial Systems

Department:      SIE IT – Corporate Applications

Reporting to:      Senior Manager Application Engineering

Based:  San Mateo, CA – (Hybrid)

Role overview:

We are seeking a Data Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to develop and support the delivery of technical solutions to ensure that the platform continues to meet the needs of Finance globally.  In this role you will be working on a dev-ops engineering team developing and supporting a core financial platform in a fast-paced 24x7 cloud-based production environment.  You will be interacting with other data engineers within the FMA platform, business customers and stakeholders and other technical teams supporting this function.  In additional to technical skills and experience, communication is also a key success factor in this role.

The SIE IT – Corporate Applications department implements, enhances and supports products and services that underpin PlayStation’s business operations. The Financial Management Application (FMA) is a strategic solution in this space delivering transactional-based data to core financial systems throughout SIE. 

What you will be doing:

Helping to develop and support the FMA financial platform capabilities that underpin complex Finance accounting processes, by:

  • Participating in the 24x7 production support of a finance technology stack in an AWS cloud environment to support PlayStation’s operational excellence.
  • Support business critical jobs, including successful processing over monthly accounting close.
  • Participate in operations team to monitor system alerts; respond to job failures, and work on all issues which impact finance systems stakeholders.
  • Deliver root cause analysis for difficult and complex issues faced by the finance systems team.
  • Analyze transaction level detail to uncover processing gaps and respond to complex queries from finance, tax, and compliance departments.
  • Develop custom reports for finance to support finance, legal, audit, and other teams.
  • Financial data and application design utilizing Golang, SQL, JavaScript, NodeJS languages.
  • Be agile and capable to switch between operations and development roles as needed.
  • Use independent judgement and applied skills to develop new programs and processes to expand finance systems functionality.
  • Work independently and collaboratively.
  • Provide high levels of technical skills to deliver best results in the industry.
  • Other duties as assigned.

What we are looking for:

At PlayStation we are driven by the desire to ensure that PlayStation remains the best place to play and the best place to work. This drive is fuelled by our core values: we are looking for people to join us who are passionate, trailblazers and have a one team mindset.

These values and behaviours are evident throughout your previous experience:

  • Supporting critical production systems in a 24x7 environment.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Understanding of basic accounting and industry business models such as subscriptions, preorders, royalties, revenue sharing, and bounties.
  • Sound understanding of the following technical areas:
    • Relational database systems such as Oracle or Snowflake, database and data warehouse design and loading, and working with very large datasets.  Experience in SQL window functions and other SQL analytical functions.
    • Data ETL tools such as Informatica or data pipeline design and development.
    • Cloud (AWS) architecture services (EC2, S3, EFS, MSK, Lambda), distributed systems and backend architecture.
    • Event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka (AWS MSK) and Golang.
    • Event streaming, producers, consumers, event agents.
  • Experience in a variety of programming languages such as SQL, Linux shell scripting, Golang, JavaScript, NodeJS.
  • Nice to have experience in developing and supporting an event-driven architecture (EDA) with proven hands-on experience coding using Golang or similar languages.
  • Nice to have hands-on experience with bash shell scripting, Git-hub version control and Jenkins automation.
  • Working with the following tools (or similar):            
    • Issue Tracking (e.g. JIRA, Service Now)
    • Collaboration (e.g. Confluence, Trello)
    • Communication (e.g. Slack, Webex, Skype for Business)
    • Version Control (e.g. Github)
    • Automation (e.g. Jenkins, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform)
  • Ability to operate independently with minimal supervision.
  • Working effectively with offshore / near shore service providers.
  • Passion for pursuing new technologies and constantly learning.
  • Working within controlled/compliance-based environments (particularly Sarbanes Oxley) would be beneficial.

Growth Opportunities:

The large-scale event pipelines that you help build and support will be leveraged across multiple areas of the business, offering exciting challenges and growth in various domains such as e-commerce, customer analytics, and content management.

Benefits and Perks:

  • At PlayStation we are driven by Competitive salary
  • 401K with company match, education assistance, generous paid leave, and more
  • On-site gym and café
  • Break rooms with networked PlayStation consoles and monthly game voucher
  • Remote work flexibility with opportunities to collaborate across global teams

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. 

In addition, this role
is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

 

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$137,800 - $206,600 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

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