Data Engineering Manager (Billing Development)

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.

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

• →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

• 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

• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and decision-making skills
• Excellent command of English, both spoken and written