Finance Data Platform Architect

WebHosting; New York (NY); On-site; USD 264,000 - 396,000; Full time

Job summary

Vercel is seeking an Engineer to lead the design and development of its Financial Data Platform, the foundational system powering revenue reporting, billing, forecasting, and compliance across the business.

You will define the technical vision for the finance data ecosystem, partner with Finance, Accounting, and Revenue leadership to translate requirements into scalable systems, and mentor engineers as the function grows.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a data platform that supports revenue recognition, consumption-based billing, and financial reporting across batch and real-time workloads, leveraging Kafka and streaming technologies to power real-time usage and billing pipelines feeding revenue and consumption forecasts.
• Work directly with FP&A, Accounting, and RevOps to understand reporting requirements, close-cycle timelines, and forecasting needs, translating them into technical architecture and ensuring data availability and accuracy align with financial reporting deadlines, audit cycles, and board-level reporting needs.
• Define and maintain guidelines for financial data ingestion, transformation, and storage, with a focus on auditability, lineage, and data integrity, while overseeing data modeling, ETL, and warehousing (ClickHouse, Tinybird, Snowflake) to support low-latency analytics and reliable historical reporting.
• Develop end-to-end solutions across the finance data stack, setting the example for engineering excellence in a high-accountability domain, and mentor engineers on both technical craft and the added rigor required when data feeds directly into financial statements.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit to ensure financial data pipelines meet SOX, SOC 2, and other regulatory requirements, and champion high availability, fault tolerance, and auditability through comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Drive architectural decisions and roadmap planning that balance efficiency, scalability, and the strict correctness requirements of financial systems, and evaluate build-vs-buy tradeoffs across financial and billing tooling (e.g., ERP, billing, and revenue platforms).
• Build the data infrastructure that translates raw usage into revenue, supporting the forecasting models Finance and GTM rely on for target-setting and reporting, and collaborate with data science and FP&A teams on forecasting, incrementality analysis, and revenue modeling at scale.
• Act as a key decision-maker for evaluating and selecting data architectures and technologies critical to Vercel’s financial operations, and establish a multi-phase roadmap for finance data platform maturity aligned with company growth and audit readiness.

Job description

Vercel is seeking an Engineer to lead the design and development of its Financial Data Platform, the foundational system powering revenue reporting, billing, forecasting, and compliance across the business.

You will define the technical vision for the finance data ecosystem, partner with Finance, Accounting, and Revenue leadership to translate requirements into scalable systems, and mentor engineers as the function grows.