As a Lead Engineer, you will serve as the technical leader for design, development, and support core Finance applications and integrations. You will coordinate with a distributed team (onshore + offshore), drive architecture and technical decisions, and ensure compliance with financial, tax, and reporting requirements.

This role requires deep hands-on expertise in ERP/Finance integrations, billing & tax systems, Azure Cloud & AKS, and data compliance/reporting, combined with strong leadership skills to guide contractors and junior engineers.

Duties and Responsibilities :

- Lead the design and development of integrations between billing, tax, ERP, and compliance reporting systems.

- Architect and guide development of full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices.

- Drive cloud-native adoption by designing and deploying containerized applications on Azure (AKS, PostgreSQL, Service Bus) and GCP.

- Implement and optimize event-driven architectures leveraging Solace for high-performance, asynchronous communication.

- Champion coding standards and CI/CD automation, defining best practices for pipelines and deployments.

- Drive observability adoption, ensuring services include robust logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting with Splunk, New Relic, and related tools.

- Ensure compliance with SOX, IRS, and other audit/regulatory requirements through robust design and controls.

- Partner with Finance, Tax, and Audit teams to deliver scalable, auditable, and high-performance solutions.

- Assign and review work for offshore contractors; ensure deliverables are timely, high quality, and aligned.

- Mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance and enforcing development standards.

- Engage in vendor/product evaluations and contribute to roadmap discussions.