Data Engineering Manager (Billing Development)

Job description

**About the Role:** You will own the design and architecture of aCommerce's billing platform. Your main goal is to turn billable business events into accurate, auditable charges, invoices, and financial records. This is a highly hands-on leadership role where you will lead a team of data engineers while continuing to write code, build prototypes, and set engineering standards. | | | | --- | --- | | **Responsibilities:** | Specifically, this role will be doing: - Design and own the end-to-end architecture of a scalable, multi-country, multi-currency billing platform, from capturing billable business events through rating, invoicing and posting to the accounting system - Define the billing data model – clients, contracts, rate cards, billable events, charges, invoices, credit notes and adjustments – with full traceability from every invoice line back to its source events - Architect the pipelines that extract billable business events from our supply chain, fulfillment, delivery and SaaS applications into the data platform, guaranteeing completeness and integrity - Build a flexible rating and pricing engine that supports our commercial models: per-order and per-unit fees, storage, tiered and volume pricing, minimum commitments, subscriptions and pass-through costs - Ensure the billing platform meets accounting requirements in terms of completeness and timeliness, including revenue recognition, accruals, month-end close, tax across Southeast Asian markets and integration with our ERP - Design reconciliation and controls: automated checks between operational events, billed charges and financial records, complete audit trails, and processes for disputes, adjustments and re-billing **This is a MUST: Stay hands-on, write production code for the most critical and complex components, build prototypes and proofs of concept****Own the quality of the code your team delivers – lead design and code reviews, and quality-check the pipelines, SQL, Python and data models built by the data engineers** - Establish and enforce engineering practices: version control and branching strategy, CI/CD, automated testing (unit, integration and data-quality tests), infrastructure-as-code, documentation and observability - Define data-quality standards and monitoring for billing data, and lead incident response and root-cause analysis when billing issues occur - Make and document architecture decisions that balance scalability, performance, cost and maintainability on our AWS-based data platform (Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL) - Work with revenue operation team to define event contracts and schemas, so that upstream changes do not break billing - Ensure that settlements from all sources are ingested, monitored, and maintained for maximum reliability - Translate client contracts and commercial requirements from Finance and the commercial teams into technical specifications, and advise them on the feasibility and billing impact of new pricing models - Plan and prioritize the billing roadmap with Billing Product Manager; do work break down, effort estimation, and deliver predictably - Lead, coach and develop the billing engineering team – hiring, setting goals and giving regular feedback – to build a high-performing team - Protect financial and client data through appropriate access controls, and support internal and external audits - Identify possible risks and take measures to prevent these and escalate if needed | **QUALIFICATIONS** | | | --- | | In order to succeed in this role, we are looking for an individual with the following skill sets and experiences: | | **Technical Qualifications** | - Bachelor Degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field - 7+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering, including at least 2–3 years leading an engineering team - Proven experience designing and building billing, invoicing, payments or other financial systems, ideally usage-based or transaction-based billing - Solid understanding of how billing and accounting work: order-to-cash, double-entry bookkeeping, accounts receivable, revenue recognition, accruals, credit notes, month-end close and tax - Expert SQL and strong Python, with the ability to write and review production-grade code - Strong technical architecture skills: data architecture, distributed systems, batch and streaming pipelines, orchestration (e.g. Airflow), and handling late, duplicate and re-processed data - Deep experience in data modeling (event-based and dimensional) and relational database design, including PostgreSQL and Amazon Redshift - Strong knowledge of engineering practices: automated testing, CI/CD, Git workflows, code review, infrastructure-as-code and observability - Experience with the AWS platform is a plus - Experience with ERP or accounting systems (e.g. NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Dynamics) or billing platforms is a plus - Experience with multi-entity billing in ecommerce, logistics/3PL or SaaS is a plus | | **Soft Skills and Other details** | - Experience with - leading and mentoring engineering teams - working with Finance and Accounting stakeholders - agile software development - hiring and building a team - Ability to translate business and financial requirements into technical designs, and to explain technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders - High quality standards, and the ability to give constructive, specific feedback on code and design - Good problem solving and analytic skills - Excellent attention to detail – every billing error reaches a client’s invoice **Willingness to ‘get hands dirty’ – actually, this is a must, you will be doing the coding yourself** - Strong interpersonal, negotiation and decision-making skills - Excellent command of English, both spoken and written | **Perks & Benefits:** - Flexible work from home options, flexible leave, and solid healthcare services. - Attractive and comfortable workspace located at EmQuartier (Thailand office).