Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise Technology

<div class="content-intro"><h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">About Crunchyroll</h2> <p>Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.</p> <p>Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!</p></div><h2>About the role</h2> <p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Crunchyroll is hiring a Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise Technology to serve as the principal technical steward for our financial systems platform. In this senior individual contributor role, you will define the long-term solution architecture vision and own the engineering approach for data flows and platform capabilities that enable accurate, auditable financial reporting and resilient operations.</p> <p>You will create and govern the platform roadmap, architecture principles, and best practices that unify how financial information moves across the business. You will influence product and finance decisions, define enterprise-wide standards and SLAs, lead vendor technical evaluation and PoCs, and represent the FinTech platform with senior Finance and Technology leaders.</p> <p>In the role of Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise Technology, you will report to the VP, Enterprise Technology. We are considering applicants for the location of Dallas (in office Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays).</p> <h3><br><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Define and own solution architecture and data flows for finance systems, including schema/contract rules (transaction grain, idempotency, partitioning).</li> <li>Build a validation system that enforces accounting rules, detects errors, records audit trails, and flags/escalates issues so financials stay accurate and audit ready.</li> <li>Architect event and batch processing and JE generation to ensure financial correctness. Enforce ordered processing and idempotency - and ensure reliable GL/ERP posting.</li> <li>Set non functional targets and operational requirements: throughput, latency, resiliency, multi-region reliability and scalability.</li> <li>Embed security and compliance into designs.</li> <li>Lead vendor technical evaluations and PoCs, contribute to build vs buy decisions, and choose platforms based on TCO, compliance and operational risk.</li> <li>Partner with Finance, Product, Systems Transformation, Legal, Data and SRE to translate accounting and business requirements into technical specs; prioritize FinTech roadmap; set SLAs, reconcilia