Manager – Global Technology - Accounting in the ECP

Job Description

Why This Role Matters 

This Manager role leads a software engineering team responsible for centralizing enterprise accounting data within Expeditors’ Enterprise Core Platform (ECP). This role delivers scalable, reliable, secure, and compliant accounting data capabilities that support the modernization of exp.o Accounting and the controlled retirement of Expeditors’ legacy accounting system. 

The Manager balances near-term delivery with operational stability, strong internal controls, employee development, and the long-term transition of centralized accounting data management from Global Financial Reporting (GFR) to ECP. 

Team and Technology 

This role leads the engineering team responsible for establishing ECP as the authoritative platform for centralized enterprise accounting data and accounting-driven business processes. The team delivers centralized Open Item accounting data, including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Provisions, while expanding centralization to General Ledger balances, detailed General Ledger transactions, and File GL Balances used for revenue reporting. 

The Manager partners with Accounting, ECP Administration, Product, Architecture, Security, Compliance, and downstream data consumers. The role also oversees deployment-related processes across Accounting-owned systems and helps transition delivery from waterfall-based change management toward automated CI/CD practices. 

What Success Looks Like 

• Build a prioritized roadmap for Open Item and General Ledger data centralization. 

• Establish a healthy, accountable engineering team with clear expectations and effective coaching. 

• Deliver production-ready Accounts Receivable data for the ARC replacement integration. 

• Establish a future-state direction for Accounting deployment pipelines and CI/CD modernization. 

• Improve delivery through automated, repeatable, auditable practices and reduced manual production activity. 

Key Areas of Impact 

Coaching for Growth

• Lead and develop a team of technical employees through clear expectations, regular coaching conversations, feedback, career development, knowledge sharing, and cross-training to strengthen team capability and support ECP-based accounting initiatives. 

• Foster career growth by helping team members build the skills needed to support centralized accounting data capabilities and long-term team success. 

Delivering on Commitments

• Deliver centralized Open Item and General Ledger accounting data while managing dependencies, risks, controls, and stakeholder commitments to support business objectives. 

• Improve engineering and operational effectiveness through automated, repeatable, and auditable delivery practices while balancing delivery commitments with operational stability and maintainability. 

Technical Depth and Delivery

• Ensure accounting data solutions support enterprise reporting, reconciliation, analytics, regulatory compliance, data quality, traceability, security, reliability, and required internal controls. 

• Lead modernization of deployment-related processes, including future-state deployment pipelines, CI/CD practices, automation, observability, and reduced reliance on manual production activities. 

Architectural Scale

• Establish ECP as the authoritative platform for centralized enterprise accounting data and accounting-driven business processes while supporting the modernization of exp.o Accounting and retirement of legacy accounting systems. 

• Partner with architects, engineering teams, and technical stakeholders to evaluate modernization approaches, deployment pipeline requirements, and long-term accounting data architecture decisions. 

Team Collaboration Scale

• Partner with Accounting, ECP Administration, Product, Architecture, Security, Compliance, and downstream data consumers to establish priorities, resolve dependencies, and align delivery outcomes. 

• Collaborate across Accounting engineering teams to assess deployment practices, identify modernization gaps, and coordinate roadmap priorities supporting centralized accounting data management. 

Influence and Advocacy

• Communicate plans, progress, risks, controls, and modernization objectives while supporting shared decision-making across technical and business stakeholders. 

• Promote consistent, repeatable, and auditable release practices that improve deployment reliability, support internal controls, and advance modernization goals. 

Scope of Vision

• Build and maintain a prioritized roadmap for Open Item and General Ledger data centralization, ensuring dependencies, risks, controls, and stakeholder commitments remain visible. 

• Balance near-term delivery priorities with the long-term transition of centralized accounting data management from Global Financial Reporting (GFR) to ECP. 

Scale of Business Understanding and Impact

• Enable accounting information to be governed and made available for authorized business processes, reporting, reconciliation, analytics, and regulatory requirements. 

• Support Accounting modernization efforts by delivering scalable, reliable, secure, and compliant accounting data capabilities that improve business outcomes and operational effectiveness. 

This position is on-site and will reside in the greater Seattle, WA. area at one of the following locations depending on availability. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.  

• Downtown Seattle  
• Federal Way  
• Lynnwood  
• Bellevue (Factoria) 

Qualifications

Qualifications for Success 

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience. 

• Minimum three years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, technology delivery, or a related technical discipline. 

• Minimum three years of experience leading technology teams, technical initiatives, products, platforms, or services. 

• Experience coaching and developing technical employees. 

• Experience coordinating work across stakeholders and managing competing priorities. 

• Experience delivering technology solutions that support business objectives. 

• Experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment. 

• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills. 

• Ability to balance technical, operational, and business considerations when making decisions. 

• Experience with Agentic AI development processes and practices. 

Preferred

• People management experience in a technical or logistics environment. 

• Experience with accounting systems, enterprise accounting data, or financial controls. 

• Experience delivering data platforms, enterprise integrations, APIs, event-driven solutions, or distributed technology capabilities. 

• Experience modernizing legacy enterprise platforms while maintaining operational continuity and managing migration risk. 

• Experience leading CI/CD, DevOps, release automation, or change-management modernization across engineering teams. 

• Experience with cloud-based data platforms, observability, and automated delivery practices. 

• Experience applying secure engineering, data governance, operational readiness, and internal control requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle. 

• Experience leading regulated, SOX-relevant, or otherwise controlled financial technology environments. 

Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not transfer or sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (such as an H-1B visa) for this opportunity. 

Additional Information

Compensation and Benefits

Base Salary: $164,00-$246,000 

Benefits: Expeditors offers competitive benefits to all full-time employees including:  

• Paid vacation  

• Holidays (10)  

• Flexible Days (2)  

• Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)  

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match  

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)  

• Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Coverage  

• Health Savings Account (HSA)  

• Life and Disability Insurance  

• Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)  

• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)  

• Commuter Benefit  

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)  

• Training and Personnel Development Program  

• Educational Assistance and Reimbursement  

• Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday   

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.