Lead, Finance Platform Engineering
$105.1k - $172.6kFull-time
ESTÉE LAUDER COMPANIES
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world's leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company's products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.
Description The Lead, Finance Platform Engineering is responsible for leading the day-to-day engineering delivery, technical execution, and continuous improvement of the enterprise Finance platform portfolio. This role serves as a hands-on engineering leader accountable for the successful realization of Finance technology solutions across SAP ECC and related enterprise Finance platforms, translating approved business requirements and solution designs into high-quality engineering solutions while ensuring technical excellence, platform stability, and production readiness.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Finance Platform Engineering, this role partners closely with Finance Product and Technology leaders, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), Operations & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, and strategic technology partners to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable Finance capabilities that support global business operations.
The Lead provides technical leadership for engineering teams and Enterprise Business Services (EBS) resources, overseeing engineering realization across core Finance capabilities including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Controlling, Treasury, Financial Close, and Finance integrations. The role is responsible for coordinating engineering delivery, developing and reviewing technical solutions to ensure alignment with approved solution designs, mentoring engineers, resolving complex technical challenges, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, engineering best practices, and long-term platform sustainability.
This leader also contributes to Finance platform modernization initiatives by supporting SAP ECC and S/4HANA transformation activities, cloud and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption, AI-enabled engineering practices, and the integration of enterprise Finance technologies such as OneStream and other modern financial planning, consolidation, reporting, and automation capabilities. Experience with technologies including SAP Fiori, OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), SAP Concur, SAP Ariba Finance integrations, SAP Global Trade Services (GTS), and SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) is highly desirable.
The ideal candidate combines deep SAP Finance engineering expertise with strong technical leadership, engineering governance, and delivery management skills while fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence across a complex global enterprise Finance landscape.
Key Roles & Responsibilities Engineering Delivery, Technical Leadership & Platform Stewardship (40%)
- Lead the day-to-day engineering delivery of enterprise Finance platform initiatives, ensuring successful realization of approved business requirements and solution designs through high-quality technical execution, delivery predictability, and production readiness.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across SAP Finance engineering activities, including engineering realization, code reviews, development and validation of technical solutions aligned to approved solution designs, defect resolution, and production support readiness.
- Coordinate engineering delivery across Enterprise Business Services (EBS), strategic technology partners, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure successful realization of Finance capabilities.
- Lead engineering efforts supporting core Finance business capabilities, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Fixed Assets (AA), Controlling (CO), Treasury, Financial Close, and Finance integrations.
- Partner with the Senior Manager, Finance Platform Engineering, to execute approved platform roadmaps, modernization initiatives, engineering improvements, and lifecycle plans while supporting long-term platform sustainability.
- Ensure engineering deliverables align with approved solution designs, enterprise architecture standards, engineering principles, security requirements, and established development methodologies.
- Establish and maintain engineering quality standards, technical governance, release readiness, and delivery controls supporting enterprise Finance platforms.
- Review engineering approaches, development standards, implementation plans, and technical solutions for alignment with approved solution designs, ensuring scalable, maintainable, secure, and supportable implementations.
- Drive continuous improvement through platform optimization, identify technical debt and recommend remediation strategies, engineering automation, environment management, and execution of approved modernization initiatives.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Operations & Infrastructure, and Finance Technology teams to ensure engineering solutions align with enterprise standards and operational requirements.
- Support lifecycle management activities including environment utilization, platform upgrades, release planning, software maintenance, performance optimization, and production stability.
- Identify technical risks, delivery challenges, and platform improvement opportunities while proactively developing mitigation and remediation plans.
- Ensure engineering documentation, production support readiness, knowledge transfer, and operational handoff activities are completed to enable successful transition into ongoing support.
- Partner with Finance Product and Technology leaders to translate approved business requirements and solution designs into high-quality engineering solutions supporting enterprise Finance capabilities and strategic initiatives.
- Collaborate with Finance stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), and strategic technology partners to successfully deliver Finance platform enhancements and transformation initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership during planning, estimation, engineering reviews, testing, deployment, and production readiness activities.
- Support Finance platform modernization initiatives, including SAP ECC optimization, S/4HANA transformation activities, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption, OneStream integration, and AI-enabled engineering capabilities where applicable.
- Foster strong relationships across business and technology organizations to improve collaboration, engineering transparency, and delivery effectiveness.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, and day-to-day guidance to Finance Platform Engineering Senior Analysts, Analysts, Enterprise Business Services (EBS) resources, and strategic technology partners.
- Promote engineering excellence through the adoption of modern engineering practices, automation, reusable assets, AI-enabled development capabilities, and continuous learning.
- Encourage knowledge sharing, technical documentation, and engineering best practices to strengthen organizational capability and improve delivery consistency.
- Contribute to building a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing engineering culture focused on accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and customer value.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 5+ years of progressive experience leading engineering delivery, technical solution development, or enterprise application engineering within complex global organizations.
- Demonstrated expertise supporting enterprise SAP Finance environments, including Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO), General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Fixed Assets (AA), Treasury, Financial Close, and Finance integrations.
- Strong understanding of SAP ECC Finance and the broader SAP application ecosystem supporting enterprise Finance business capabilities.
- Proven experience leading engineering realization of approved business requirements and solution designs across enterprise Finance applications while coordinating Enterprise Business Services (EBS), strategic technology partners, and cross-functional engineering teams.
- Experience supporting enterprise financial operations, statutory reporting, internal controls, financial compliance, and global Finance business processes.
- Experience supporting global Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Manufacturing, Retail, or similarly complex multinational organizations is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience leading engineering delivery for enterprise Finance applications, ensuring technical quality, production readiness, delivery predictability, operational stability, and successful transition into ongoing support.
- Proven ability to develop and validate technical solutions aligned with approved solution designs, guide engineering implementation, perform solution validation, resolve complex technical challenges, and mentor engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of SAP development methodologies, Agile delivery practices, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), DevSecOps, testing strategies, release management, deployment planning, and production support processes.
- Experience driving platform optimization through technical modernization, environment management, engineering automation, technical debt identification, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ability to balance engineering quality, delivery commitments, platform stability, technology risk, and long-term maintainability across enterprise Finance platforms.
- Proven ability to build collaborative relationships with Finance Product and Technology leaders, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), Finance business stakeholders, Operations & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, and strategic technology partners.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate approved business requirements and solution designs into scalable, secure, and maintainable engineering solutions.
- Experience supporting Finance transformation initiatives by collaborating across multiple business functions, engineering disciplines, and global delivery organizations.
- Ability to coordinate engineering activities across internal engineering teams, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), and strategic partners while maintaining accountability for engineering delivery, technical quality, and production readiness.
- Experience supporting modernization initiatives across SAP ECC Finance and familiarity with SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation programs.
- Strong understanding of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), cloud-based Finance capabilities, integration technologies, and modern enterprise application architectures.
- Experience with enterprise Finance technologies such as OneStream, SAP Fiori, OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), SAP Concur, and SAP Ariba Finance integrations is highly desirable.
- Experience with SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) and SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) is a significant advantage.
- Proven ability to leverage automation, AI-enabled engineering capabilities, reusable engineering assets, and modern engineering practices to improve productivity, engineering quality, platform maturity, and operational efficiency.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, engineering excellence, platform optimization, and technology modernization.
- Demonstrated success providing technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, and day-to-day guidance to engineers, Senior Analysts, Analysts, Enterprise Business Services (EBS) resources, and strategic technology partners.
- Ability to foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on accountability, technical excellence, continuous learning, innovation, and customer value.
- Proven commitment to strengthening organizational capability through knowledge sharing, engineering standards, documentation, technical coaching, production support readiness, and professional development.
- Ability to influence technical decisions, drive engineering best practices, and support enterprise platform modernization while maintaining strong partnerships across business and technology organizations.
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