Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise Technology

About the role

Crunchyroll is hiring a Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise Technology to serve as the principal technical steward for our financial systems platform. In this senior individual contributor role, you will define the long-term solution architecture vision and own the engineering approach for data flows and platform capabilities that enable accurate, auditable financial reporting and resilient operations.

You will create and govern the platform roadmap, architecture principles, and best practices that unify how financial information moves across the business. You will influence product and finance decisions, define enterprise-wide standards and SLAs, lead vendor technical evaluation and PoCs, and represent the FinTech platform with senior Finance and Technology leaders.

In the role of Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise Technology, you will report to the VP, Enterprise Technology. We are considering applicants for the location of Dallas (in office Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays).

What You’ll Do:

• Define and own solution architecture and data flows for finance systems, including schema/contract rules (transaction grain, idempotency, partitioning).
• Build a validation system that enforces accounting rules, detects errors, records audit trails, and flags/escalates issues so financials stay accurate and audit ready.
• Architect event and batch processing and JE generation to ensure financial correctness. Enforce ordered processing and idempotency - and ensure reliable GL/ERP posting.
• Set non functional targets and operational requirements: throughput, latency, resiliency, multi-region reliability and scalability.
• Embed security and compliance into designs.
• Lead vendor technical evaluations and PoCs, contribute to build vs buy decisions, and choose platforms based on TCO, compliance and operational risk.
• Partner with Finance, Product, Systems Transformation, Legal, Data and SRE to translate accounting and business requirements into technical specs; prioritize FinTech roadmap; set SLAs, reconciliation rules and success metrics; validate designs and integrations.

A plus if you have:

• Strong NetSuite / Oracle / SAP GL posting and reconciliation experience.
• Experience integrating with RevRec/subledger products (Zuora Revenue, Oracle Revenue Management, SAP Revenue Accounting).
• Background in SRE/observability for financial systems.
• Experience delivering SOX-ready systems and audit evidence.

About You

We get excited about candidates, like you, because...

• You have 15+ years building financial, accounting, or event-driven systems; 6+ years as an architect or technical lead.
• You have experience owning solution architecture end-to-end and define governance and standards.
• You have practical knowledge of revenue recognition (ASC 606 / IFRS 15) and how to implement it in software.
• You have experience embedding controls, immutable audit trails and SOX evidence in software.
• You have experience in ledger/subledger modeling, JE generation and ERP/GL integration.
• You have experience in observability and SRE practices for business critical systems.
• You have experience working crossfunctionally with teams like Finance, Product and Engineering.

 

Why you will love working at Crunchyroll

In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:

• Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
• Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
• Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
• Health Saving Account HSA program
• Health care and dependent care FSA
• 401(k) plan, with employer match
• Employer paid commuter benefit
• Support program for new parents
• Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!

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