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Head of Investment Accounting Engineering, MD

Burlington MassachusettsFull-time$170k–$283k2026-06-15 → 2026-11-13

Core

Lead the design, development, and operation of a modern, cloud-native, scalable investment accounting platform supporting multi-asset class accounting, data management, controls, and reporting across global investment operations.

Role type

Senior engineering leader (Head of Investment Accounting Engineering)

Builds

Cloud-native investment accounting platform components including accounting engines, rules frameworks, event processing, reconciliation, and reporting services

Domain

Enterprise capital markets and asset servicing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Cloud architecture (Azure), distributed computing, investment accounting domain expertise, data architecture, enterprise platform modernization, AI tools and agents, DevOps, Product Security, DataOps, team building, executive communication

Preferred skills

Enterprise accounting and OMS platforms (Aladdin, Geneva, SimCorp), AWS/Azure/GCP, regulatory reporting, large-scale migration programs

Technologies

Snowflake, Kafka, Postgres, Kubernetes, Redis, LLMs, AI agents

Responsibilities

Define and execute long-term platform strategy; lead engineering teams building accounting platform components; drive adoption of technologies and AI-led engineering practices; implement cloud-native, event-driven architectures; deliver against platform-level SLOs/SLIs; ensure automated DevOps, Security, and SaaS operations; partner with Product and Operations on data models and controls; lead integration across front, middle, and back-office systems; build and mentor a multi-disciplinary engineering organization; represent engineering strategy to executive leadership; partner with Finance and FinOps on budget requirements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities