Lead Software Engineer, Global Converse, ITC

This role is a Lead Software Engineer – Financial Services for Global Converse, reporting to a Director of Software Engineering within Global Converse, ITC. The position provides technical direction, architectural guidance, and delivery leadership to translate complex financial requirements into secure, scalable, reliable, and auditable technology solutions. The engineer improves the maturity of Converse financial technology capabilities across the enterprise and operates in an environment where accuracy, reconciliation, traceability, controls, security, and system availability are critical.

• Lead the architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of Financial Services applications, services, integrations, and data flows.
• Partner with finance business stakeholders to understand accounting and operational requirements and translate them into clear technical capabilities and delivery plans.
• Design secure, resilient, scalable, and auditable cloud-native solutions that support financial transactions, accounting events, reconciliations, reporting, and enterprise integrations.
• Develop and govern APIs, microservices, event-driven components, scheduled processes, and integration services connecting ERP, commerce, order, inventory, payment, banking, tax, and reporting platforms.
• Ensure financial transactions and accounting data are complete, accurate, timely, traceable, and recoverable across system boundaries, and define technical patterns for validation, exception handling, idempotency, replay, reconciliation, balancing, period controls, and operational monitoring.
• Provide technical leadership for the financial platform, including interface design, data mapping, dependency management, cutover readiness, production stabilisation, and review of designs and code to ensure adherence to architecture, security, quality, and engineering standards.
• Build and maintain automated unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, regression, data validation, and performance tests, and resolve performance bottlenecks, production defects, reconciliation breaks, data-quality issues, and operational risks across distributed financial systems.
• Integrate and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated controls, environment configuration, release governance, and production support practices, and implement observability using logs, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards, and business-level controls for critical financial processes and interfaces.
• Collaborate with Security, Architecture, SRE, Data, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, and external vendors to deliver controlled and supportable solutions, and contribute to architecture evolution, technical roadmaps, platform simplification, modernisation, cost efficiency, security by design
• And reduction of operational risk.
• Participate in Agile delivery practices, create and maintain technical documentation, and mentor engineers and analysts to raise engineering maturity and promote ownership, quality, reliability, and continuous learning.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Finance Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building, integrating, and operating production systems, with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Experience designing microservices, domain-driven solutions, event-driven architectures, and RESTful APIs using languages such as Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Node.js, or Go.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native services, including container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and DevOps practices, including ownership of production deployment and operational support.
• Experience with financial systems and processes such as general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, settlement, reconciliation, treasury, tax, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, or record-to-report.
• Experience in implementing financial applications.
• Understanding of finance-related integrations across commerce, order management, inventory, procurement, payment, banking, and reporting platforms.
• Experience designing reliable batch, API, file-based, and event-driven integrations, including error handling, replay, idempotency, reconciliation, and end-to-end traceability.
• Strong knowledge of financial data quality, master and reference data, chart of accounts, accounting periods, currencies, exchange rates, and auditability considerations.
• Knowledge of secure coding, identity and access management, segregation of duties, encryption, secrets management, privacy, compliance, and technology controls.
• Familiarity with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka or Event Hubs and observability tools such as Splunk or SignalFx.
• Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems and resolving issues involving data integrity, transaction processing, performance, and cross-system dependencies.
• Proven delivery excellence in highly collaborative, multidisciplinary, and globally distributed teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, controls, and trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.

• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, API Gateway, Lambda, and relational and non-relational databases.